Individual Psychotherapy
Each psychotherapy session is designed to help patients cope with current stresses that cause anxiety, chronic pain, fatigue, depression and uncomfortable physical symptoms.
Psychotherapy can be combined with other techniques such as hypnosis or guided imagery, as well as medication. Our psychotherapy staff includespsychiatrists and a psychologist.
To schedule an appointment for individual psychotherapy, please call us at (650) 498-5566.
The first step will be to check out your insurance benefits and your registration in the Stanford Hospital & Clinics computer system, so please have your insurance card handy when you call.
Individual Psychotherapy Staff
- Manuela M. Kogon, MD -- Manuela Kogon is a 1989 graduate of the University of Basel Medical School in Switzerland. She did her internship at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, and her residency at the Univesrity of Utah School of Medicine. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry and has completed a Fellowship at Stanford University in Medical Psychotherapy and Hypnosis. Her areas of work include medical psychotherapy, hypnosis, guided imagery, gestalt therapy and compliance as well as other established medical and psychiatric modalities.
- Thomas F. Nagy, PhD -- Thomas Nagy is a 1967 graduate of Hamilton College in New York. He received his PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois in 1972. He is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he teaches and supervises psychology and psychiatry postdoctoral staff members. He has been using hypnosis and other interventions, including individual pshchotherapy, with patients suffering chronic pain and a broad variety of other psychological and physical complaints for more than 20 years.
- David Spiegel, MD -- David Spiegel, Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is Director of the research-focused Center on Stress and Health at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has authored more than 375 research papers and chapters in scientific journals and books, and numerous awards for his research on mind/body medicine. He co-authored Trance and Treatment (2004), a standard textbook on the clinical uses of hypnosis. Dr. Spiegel was featured on Bill Moyerto's ground-breaking PBS seriesHealing and the Mind.
- Dr. Spiegel is a 1971 graduate of Harvard University Medical School. He did his residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Cambridge Hospital.