Judith Acosta

The Mind Body Center of the River Towns


Founded and run by  Judith Acosta, LCSW-R, CHT, The Mind Body Center of the River Towns is dedicated to the treatment  of the whole person - the mind, the body, the spirit. Along with a group of carefully selected individuals from different healing professions to whom special referrals are made, our mutual goal is to bring a person to their highest attainable level of physical, emotional and spiritual health.

Judith Acosta, LCSW, is the author (with Judith Prager, PhD) of The Worst Is Over: Verbal First Aid to Calm, Relieve Pain, Promote Healing and Save Lives (2002, Jodere Group). She is a licensed  psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and crisis counselor, specializing in the treatment of trauma, anxiety, and infertility. She started as a rape crisis counselor in 1985 and has been in  private  practice since 1989.  In the early 90’s, s he became president of the Somamente Group, teaching neuro-linguistic  techniques to firefighters,  police, and hospital personnel.

She has appeared on radio and television and is an engaging speaker on a variety of topics, including Verbal First Aid, stress reduction, hypnosis, and the healing nature of animals in therapeutic situations. She has provided workshops to numerous corporations, hospitals and emergency services and has trained countless paramedics, fire fighters, police officers and medical professionals in Verbal First Aid with great success, providing them with flexible, portable, effective tools they always have at their disposal-words.

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