COGNITIVE INTERVENTION THERAPIES ONLINE AND IN GARDEN CITY, NY
Long Island Intervention Therapies
Cognitive coaching provides targeted interventions that address cognitive challenges for teens and adults in Garden City, NY.
When you or your child need help, you deserve expert support
When navigating the world of cognitive challenges, the experience can be frustrating and confusing. You want to find the right help for you or your child, and you need an expert who can provide intervention therapies that make a noticeable, meaningful difference.
Cognitive remediation, also sometimes called executive function coaching or cognitive coaching, is a targeted therapy approach that aims to expand your or your child’s thinking skills, helping you tackle cognitive challenges head-on.
Cognitive coaching with a board-certified neuropsychologist connects you with an expert professional that knows how to support you, teaching you skills and guiding you through exercises that preserve and even expand your cognitive abilities.
How does cognitive coaching help?
For children, teens, and adults with cognitive challenges, working with a neuropsychologist can help leverage neural plasticity, or the ability of the brain to form new pathways and connections throughout one’s life.
Cognitive coaching with a board-certified neuropsychologist at Garden City Neuropsychology can help you manage the daily impacts of neuropsychological conditions and materially improve your overall executive function.
Some examples of cognitive coaching exercises include:
For attention: Learning active listening strategies
For memory: Using association to remember names.
For working memory: Following a set of instructions and completing a task.
For executive functioning: Setting a goal, and identifying the steps to complete the goal
For problem-solving: Navigating from one place to another..
For language: Completing sentences with logical conclusions that match the context clues.
Is it time for cognitive coaching?
Cognitive coaching, also known as executive function training, can help people who have issues with:
Short- or long-term memory
Communication
Judgment or decision-making
Attention or concentration
Organization
Navigation
Planning and completing tasks
Motor skills or coordination
Cognitive remediation therapy is proven effective for people who have been diagnosed with:
Psychiatric disorders like anxiety or depression
Neurodevelopmental conditions like ADHD
Learning delays and disabilities
Traumatic brain injuries
Dementia or Alzheimer’s disease
Stroke or transient ischemic attack
Multiple sclerosis
Parkinson’s disease
What are the benefits of cognitive coaching?
Better job performance
Improved ability to manage the activities of daily life (ADL)
Reduce stress for you and your loved ones
Better academic performance
Increase your or your child’s independence
Increase in self-actualization
Better behavior management
Improve relationships
Increase in self-esteem
What happens in intervention therapy sessions?
When you begin intervention therapy at Garden City Neuropsychology, you’ll attend 50-minute sessions, weekly or biweekly, online via telehealth or in-person in our Garden City, NY office.
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During your intake appointment, Dr. Watson will ask questions to develop a fuller picture of your history and current cognitive challenges. He may request more information about your medical records, diagnoses, and any previous assessments.
He may want to interview teachers, therapists, doctors, or friends or family members to gain a fuller picture of what you’re experiencing, so he can better determine what techniques and approaches will help you the most.
From this information, he will develop an individual cognitive remediation treatment plan that will address your personal concerns.
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During weekly or biweekly executive function coaching sessions with Dr. Watson, you will work through tasks and discuss strategies to develop your cognitive skills in areas that directly address your personal challenges and needs.
Cognitive remediation therapy can focus on exercises and tasks that:
Improve focus and ability to concentrate
Expand attention to detail
Improve time management skills
Improve organizational abilities
Improve communication skills
Improve memory and recall
Dr. Watson will end each session with a review of what you’ve accomplished, and may assign you or your child tasks or exercises to complete between sessions, to help you integrate the skills learned in intervention therapy sessions into your everyday life.
Why Choose Garden City Neuropsychology?
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Proper training is crucial to providing high-quality neuropsychological services.
Dr. Philip Watson is not only a licensed psychologist in New York State who has been in practice since 2016, but he has also been instrumental in building the Neuropsychology program at Northwell Health, where he now serves as Director of Neuropsychology for Behavioral Health services. The wealth of experience he has gained through this position has directly informed his ability to provide targeted intervention therapies to clients.
In addition to these professional achievements, he has also completed board certification in Clinical Neuropsychology through the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology (ABCN), a specialty board of the American Board of Professional Psychology.
Less than 3% of psychologists in the US have attained board certification. It is a rigorous peer review process that examines credentials and casework, and requires exhaustive written and oral examination. Board certification acknowledges, via professional peers in the field, comprehensive competency in the clinical neuropsychology specialty.
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At Garden City Neuropsychology, you have the undivided attention of Dr. Watson, a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist.
His training and years of experience combine to position him as an exceptional resource for his clients, and he provides interventional therapy services directly to every client at Garden City Neuropsychology.
Navigating hospital systems and coordinating practitioners when trying to address cognitive challenges or changes can be difficult and can add long lead times to the process. By choosing Garden City Neuropsychology, you gain direct access to an expert in his field, saving you time and energy that you can instead spend on skill building to support yourself or your child as you manage cognitive challenges.
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Dr. Watson has called Garden City home for decades, raising his family here and taking great pride in his community. His practice is located in the heart of Garden City, providing easy access to exceptionally high-quality neuropsychological services close to home!
Ready to Get Started?
If you’re ready to invest in therapy with a board-certified clinical neurobiologist who is expertly trained in assessing and treating cognitive challenges, we invite you to connect with Garden City Neuropsychology today to schedule an intake appointment.
Messages go directly to Dr. Watson.FAQs About Cognitive Intervention Therapies
Here are some answers to the most common questions we receive about intervention therapies at Garden City Neuropsychology.
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Dr. Watson does not write prescriptions for medication and does not provide medication management services at this time.
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Neuropsychological evaluations are stand-alone services that include an intake appointment, evaluation, and a report that can include referrals and potential treatment plans.
During your intake appointment for intervention therapies, you can discuss with Dr. Watson whether starting with a neuropsychological evaluation is the best starting point for you or your child.
If you would like to work with Garden City Neuropsychology on a neuropsychological evaluation, we welcome you to visit our Contact page and schedule an intake appointment today.
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When facing cognitive challenges, it’s crucial to consider the specific brain-behavior connections that are generating the challenges, and to address them appropriately with targeted cognitive skill-building.
The cognitive challenges people face from neurological disease and damage, cognitive conditions, neurodevelopmental disorders, and psychiatric conditions are not a result of laziness and are not a sign of personal failure. They are also not something you “just have to learn to live with”.
These challenges are directly rooted in neurobiology. Turning to the expertise of a neuropsychologist for intervention therapy is a practical, effective way to face these cognitive challenges, equipping you or your child with skills and techniques that work with your strengths and provide active support for weaknesses.
Cognitive coaching is like any other form of skill-building, and we all benefit from learning practical skills, especially from experts.