New Image Wellness
Our aim is to help you find the barrier(s) and
resolve challenges that impede your progress.
About Us
Dr. Chris Winfrey, MD
Owner and Medical Director
Mission
At New Image Wellness, it is our aim to help you find the barrier(s) and resolve challenges that impede your progress. We understand certain struggles in life are known and others unknown. At times it might be difficult to seek help or know there is a solution to their problem. Through comprehensive evaluations and other modalities, we seek to find the best treatment option for you.
Vision
Our aim is to get to know you and understand the importance you place on your life, to understand your history, and appreciate where you wish to be. We see our role as consultants helping you achieve your goals.
Dr. Winfrey’s Personal Statement
I regard my role, as a physician, as one trusted by the community and public to provide a service that honors your whole being. It is my privilege to work with what you regard as sacred to you.
Services
EVALUATIONS
We perform Medical Evaluation and Consultation for various Problems:
- Medical Management
- Forensic Evaluation
- Occupational Problems
- Parental-Child problems
- Nutritional Assessment:
- Psychotherapy
- We offer comprehensive evaluations focusing on your mind, body, social, spiritual, and cultural context. Medical evaluations begin with Initial evaluations are 45, 60, and 90 minutes and consist of a series of questions to obtain a comprehensive psychiatric, medical, and social history. An assessment of the presenting problems as well as an initial wellness plan will be developed.
MEDICAL MANAGEMENT
We explore the underlying causes and contributions to various symptoms as they interface with one’s body and other medical illnesses. A healthy body helps to promote a healthy mind. Following the initial evaluation, there will be a need for ongoing monitoring to achieve and maintain wellness. There are times when there is a loss of response or relapse and symptoms re-occur. You might be familiar with the language of a flair up. It is important to troubleshoot the origins of the flair to regain remission.
THERAPY
Through talk therapy, one can explore themselves, both mind and body, and their relationships introspectively to better understand causation of patterns of behavior, self-defeating attitudes, the influence of stressors, and personal growth. Some patients are not satisfied with symptom remission through medical treatment and seek ongoing therapy to understand themselves and their lives better. Additionally, one can further their desire for contentment, peace, satisfaction, and more.
Types:
1. Mind-Body Therapy-Help to address bodily feelings, perceptions, and sensations connection with feelings, thoughts, and emotions.
2. Post-Traumatic Growth-Helps rebuild areas of Faith, Vision, Hope, Trust & Safety that is lost following traumatic experiences.
3. Relational Therapy-Helps to address relational patterns and build stronger relationships.
Areas Addressed
– Discomfort with career choice
– Self-Esteem
– Coping Skills
– Extramarital Affairs
– Power Struggles
– Ambivalence in Relationship
– Codependency
– Depressive Conditions
– Cyclic Moods
– Aggressive Moods
– Grief and Loss
– Couples Work
– Anxiety
– Depression
– School Disturbances
– Attention and Concentration Struggles
– Oppositional Defiance
– Parental Training
– Due to Stress
– Due to Medical Conditions
– Trauma & Post-Trauma Stress Disorders
– Obsessive-Compulsive thinking patterns
– Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Pain
- Sleep dysfunction
- Hormonal Imbalances
- Inflammatory Conditions
- Auto-Immune Conditions
- Toxins
- Infections
- And More
Medical conditions must be addressed to achieve optimal mental/emotional health. The mind and body are one unit, one system, or one ecosystem working together.
Resources
TIPS FOR SEEKING A PROVIDER
Seeking psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care can be overwhelming and difficult, especially if you are newly seeking care. People visit a psychiatrist and/or therapist with hopes of sharing deeply held beliefs and emotions that might disturb them. Trust and confidentiality are essential to this process. When seeking a psychiatrist and therapist, it is important to discuss what matters to you and what you want to be attended to. Also, it is important to ensure the person whom you are consulting addresses the problems you face. It is important to align your problem areas with their skill set. Next, it is necessary to feel comfortable with their orientation and philosophy. This can be sought by reading their personal profile and a phone discussion with them. Lastly, you need to be ready to address your concerns, work towards your goals, and agree to commit to your care with time, finances, and interest. This work differs from other areas of medicine in that it requires your deep interest, curiosity, and effort to be successful given the most important area of human life will be addressed-the human mind/soul.
PSYCHODYNAMIC/PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
There are different names given to this process: talk therapy, talking cure, or therapy that deals with deep emotions. The treatment is established through consultation around the problem. After discussing what brings one to seek therapy, a basic idea is conveyed that attempts to underscore the nature of the problem. The relationship begins at the consultation and continues to deepen as trust level increases through the course of treatment. The focus of therapy is designed to build a relationship with the therapist, developing ways to manage painful emotions, and difficult situations. It then progresses towards looking at past relationships and events as far back as childhood. It is important to grasp the events and relationships that shaped ones sense of self, beliefs, behaviors, and reactions as such dictates one’s path in life. The past connects to the present and shapes the future. It is often pondered the benefit of looking into one’s past because such events can’t change. For the mind, it possesses the ability to change the meaning and intensity of past events that shaped one’s current distress. Therefore, past events do not need to change or be erased to alter the effects it has on a person.
INTRODUCTION TO MEDICATION MANAGEMENT
In this contemporary time, modern science and medicine has undergone extensive advancement over last 100 years. In the last 30 years, medications have become safer and more understood. In conjunction with other medical treatments, medications can offer measurable benefits. Questions often arise regarding the need of medications to address mental illness. We are living in a time where people do not have to suffer for lack of or inadequate treatment compared to 100 years ago. People remarkable improve when they received proper medication. Medications are utilized on a case-by-case basis. They are often used in conjunction with psychotherapy. In some cases, psychotherapy can be used alone. In other cases, it is absolutely necessary to combine with medication as it could mean life or death. Medications help to accelerate recovery given psychotherapy takes time alone. However, it largely addresses symptom distress and helps with biological controls. There are some instances where medications are contraindicated; meaning could produce little to no benefit. It is important to discuss with a qualified provider whether medications are a fit for you.
Section
Appointments
Adult & Child Psychiatric/Psychotherapy Evaluation
Injury Evaluation Appointment
Injury Evaluation Protocol
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Contact Us
Mailing Address
525 Route 73 North
Suite 411
Marlton, NJ 08053
Contact
Daytime: 856.983.4940
Evening/Weekends: 856.396.7200
Fax: 856.983.3408