Boston Behavorial Medicine

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Primary: Ophthalmologist (Eye Doctor)

Sub-Specialty: General

Additional Specialties: Ophthalmology

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Phone: (617) 734-8090

Fax: (617) 738-4224

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Finkelstein Elliot

Boston Behavioral Medicine

Dr. Elliot M Finkelstein, MD

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Phone: (617) 232-2435

Address: 1371 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02446

Website: https://www.bostonbmed.com

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Primary Care
Dr. Kim Larsson is a doctoral level licensed clinical specialist, who has practiced as a psychotherapist and psycho-pharmacologist for over 20 years. Her main areas of expertise include: integrative psychotherapy, behavioral medicine, and psycho-pharmacology. Dr. Larsson underwent clinical training at Harvard Medical School through McLean Hospital and The Cambridge Hospital. She is former Assistant Director of the Behavioral Medicine Program at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston, and a former supervisor in the Behavioral Medicine Program at Cambridge Health Alliance. Dr. Larsson obtained a doctoral degree in nursing from Boston College. She has conducted research applying phenomenological nursing approaches to the study of medically unexplained physical symptoms in primary care. She has carried out international work in Japan as a lecturer and consultant, helping to promote the development of behavioral medicine approaches among nurses and mental health clinicians.
Sleep Disorders
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Behavioral Medicine primarily targets the treatment of medical conditions that are exacerbated by stress and other psychological factors, including chronic pain, hypertension, diabetes, IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), migraine headaches, TMJ (temporal-mandibular joint disorder), skin disorders, and sexual disorders, among others.

Internal Medicine
BBM’s staff has expertise in the integration of medical and behavioral health services. Dr. Laria is the founder and director of the Behavioral Medicine Services at the Charles River Community Health Center in Allston and Waltham, MA. Dr. Larsson is the former assistant director of the Behavioral Medicine Program in the Internal Medicine Department at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston, MA.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
In addition, Behavioral Medicine interventions can be applied to the treatment of most common mental health disorders, such as: depression, anxiety disorders (panic, generalized anxiety, phobias, PTSD, OCD), and ADHD, among others.
Stress Management
For example, a migraine sufferer may experience an increase in frequency, intensity and duration of migraine episodes while undergoing significant emotional distress. This patient’s condition may benefit significantly from learning a variety of stress management skills, such as diaphragmatic breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, mindfulness, imagery, etc. to reduce the impact of stress. The patient may also use biofeedback as a way to teach her/himself to increase temperature in their hands. Research suggests that increasing hand temperature may help improve blood flow (by causing vasodilation, or expansion of blood vessels), which, with sustained practice, may decrease headache frequency, severity, and duration in some migraine sufferers.
Depression
Mental Health
Behavioral Medicine clinicians typically have a background in one of the mental health disciplines (psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, and mental health counselors), but there’s a growing number of medical providers (physicians, osteopaths, dentists, nurses, physician assistants, nutritionists) undergoing training in b-med interventions given the application of this specialty area in the treatment of medical conditions.
Psychiatry
Dr. Amaro Laria is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist. His main areas of expertise include integrative psychotherapy and behavioral medicine. He uses a patient-centered integrative approach that highlights the centrality of the therapeutic relationship and the role of emotions in treatment. Dr. Laria is director of the Boston Behavioral Medicine Training Program, and holds a faculty appointment as Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School through his affiliation with the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance. He obtained his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at University of Massachusetts Boston in 1997, and was a NIMH post-doctoral research fellow in the Social Medicine Department at Harvard Medical School. He has conducted research and published in the areas of culture and mental health, and behavioral medicine. He served as advisor on cultural issues to the DSM-5 workgroup on anxiety disorders. Dr. Laria is fluent in Spanish (native speaker).
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We offer a Behavioral Health Training Program for psychology practicum students and postdoctoral fellows, as well as for social work fellows.
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