The Cognitive Health Group welcomes our newest staff member, Sumati Gupta, PhD. Dr. Gupta specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy for eating/weight problems and anxiety disorders. Specifically, she offers treatment for binge eating, bulimia, weight management, general anxiety, panic, obsessive compulsive symptoms, and posttraumatic stress. She will also be serving as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College in 2012. Dr. Gupta has published several papers on emotion regulation, eating disorder symptoms, and coping with trauma. read more

Worry is an anxious preoccupation with an anticipated negative event. Over the course of evolution, worry helped us adapt by directing awareness to true problems that once identified can be effectively addressed. In this way worry is adaptive, and helps us manage challenges. For some people, this process breaks down. Their minds become trapped in a endless process of “figuring it out.” They are plagued by thoughts and images of disastrous outcomes that in reality may never come to be. Worriers are particularly challenged by problems that have no clear solution. Instead of accepting and managing these difficult realities, they are viewed as evidence of the futility of even trying to work things out. read more