Managing Stress During Cancer Treatment
April Hirschberg, MD and Rachel Millstein, PhD share practical ways to ease stress and improve your well-being.
About Rachel Millstein, PhD
My clinical work includes evidence-based therapies including CBT, ACT, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness-based strategies for managing depression, anxiety disorders, and chronic health conditions.
Treats:
- Adult
Languages:
- French
Locations
Mass General Psychiatry: Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Services
55 Fruit St.
Wang Ambulatory Care Center
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-7792
Medical Education
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Evernorth Behavioral Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- MassHealth
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Behavioral Health
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
My research focuses on developing multilevel interventions to promote health behaviors and well-being, broadly with an eye toward obesity and chronic disease prevention. I study the role of emotions in health behavior change, including the use of positive psychology. My research has also focused on patients with cardiovascular disease and diabetes, as well as children and older adults.
Publications
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Selected publications:
Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) position statement: Increasing funding for the NIH OBSSR to promote timely and effective behavioral medicine research. Transl Behav Med. 2018 Mar 1;8(2):309-312. doi: 10.1093/tbm/ibx022. PubMed PMID: 29506256; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6457085The effects of optimism and gratitude on adherence, functioning and mental health following an acute coronary syndrome. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2016 Nov - Dec;43:17-22. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2016.08.006. Epub 2016 Aug 30. PubMed PMID: 27796252.