Frequently Asked Questions

No matter if you are on strong pain medicine or have had surgery or are on disability for your symptoms, this mind-body approach is shown to be beneficial. Most importantly, patients who improve are open to the mind-body approach, motivated in their own self-healing, and are willing to use the free or inexpensive learning resources recommended in between appointments.

Dr. Hollander may suggest visits on a 2-4 week schedule at first. Some patients may only need a couple of appointments to feel equipped to continue the self-healing work on their own with a workbook or app. Others may need more visits to process emotions that became linked with the symptoms early on and / or to work on continued guided trigger exposure for healing.

Your recovery time will depend on a variety of factors. If you’ve had symptoms for years to decades, it may take weeks to months to see improvement. But have faith, and you can get better! You will be more likely to heal sooner if you can give up emotional attachment to your symptoms and life circumstances / stressors. You’ve likely been a patient for a long time and beginning to see yourself as your own self-healer goes a long way toward healing. Your healing time will also depend on your motivation to read the resources and do the meditations or other interventions Dr. Hollander recommends.

Set up a free “Discovery Call” from the booking / appointments page to have a 15-minute phone call from Dr. Hollander.

Dr. Hollander is licensed to provide medical care for patients who are currently present & reside in: Arkansas, California, or Missouri. Traditional credit / debit cards and FSA & HSA debit cards are accepted. However, in an effort to strengthen patient autonomy in their own healing and maintain scheduling availability, Dr. Hollander does not file any insurance claims. If requested, she will provide you a superbill (a receipt of the medical visit with billing codes) that you can submit to your insurance for possible reimbursement. Unfortunately, Dr. Hollander is not set up to see patients who have Medicaid or Medicare at this time either via insurance or direct billing. If you have Medicare or Medicaid or reside outside AR, CA, or MO, feel free to use the learning page and contact Dr. Hollander to learn how you can get personalized professional guidance.

Yes! Minors should have a parent / guardian present at the initial consultation and follow up appointments. I may request the latter part of follow-up appointments be in private with your child depending on age and situation.

Yes, Dr. Hollander does not take the place of your primary care physician. Please continue to receive appropriate screening and diagnostic testing and prescriptions through your pcp.

At this time, Dr. Hollander offers virtual appointments only. They offer you the benefits of privacy and ease from your own home and lower the cost of your appointment. They allow Dr. Hollander to practice in multiple states she is licensed in.

Dr. Hollander has only a basic speaking level of Spanish, so you will still need to have a support person interpret into English at your appointment. I can guide you toward reading materials in Spanish to work on in between appointments.

Please consider having a support person present. That may be your spouse, adult child, close friend, or other person who can be a contributor on the history of your illness and a listening ear to the information I provide. Minors should have a parent / guardian present and non-fluent English speakers should have a translator who may be their support person as above.

During the first half of the visit or so, Dr. Hollander will ask you to share your pain / symptom story and she will review with you the medical testing you have done. She may ask questions about stressful or traumatic experiences you had around the time you initially developed symptoms and other life experiences. During the latter half of the visit, she will explain the neuroscience behind chronic pain & stress-related symptoms and offer resources to read, watch, or listen to before your next appointment.

Luckly, addressing the mind-body connection does not require lab work or imaging tests! Dr. Hollander requests that you’ve had all the appropriate traditional medical workup already with your primary care provider. You will need to use free or inexpensive learning resources in between appointments.

Dr. Hollander will guide you in PRT (graded exposure / desensitization techniques) & EAET (emotional processing) which reprocess symptoms that have become ingrained in your nervous system. PRT & EAET have shown significant benefit in reducing and even curing chronic pain & neuroplastic symptoms. CBT, which processes conscious cognitive thoughts, has not shown significant benefit in reducing chronic pain or neuroplastic symptoms. For this reason, CBT is not practiced by Dr. Hollander.