Helping Injured Employees Return to Work
Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired?
We’ll help you get back to your normal life.
Compassionate, Evidence-Based Mental Health Care for Injured Workers
At Emerging Insights, we provide specialized psychological services for individuals navigating the challenges of work-related injuries, with a focus on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), chronic pain, and emotional distress.
Our care is patient-centered, ensuring that each person receives thoughtful, individualized support that respects their unique circumstances and goals. We understand the complexities of the worker’s compensation system and work closely with attorneys, case managers, and adjusters to provide clear communication, timely documentation, and treatment grounded in the latest clinical research.
Our approach is organized, efficient, and rooted in evidence-based care. We aim to help patients regain a sense of control, improve daily functioning, and reduce psychological distress related to their injury. Whether you’re a patient seeking healing, an attorney seeking qualified providers, or an adjuster coordinating care, our team is here to support recovery every step of the way.
Our Services Are
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Timely
In the world of worker’s compensation, we know that timeliness is key. Fast access to care and on-time reporting benefits both patients and employers. We don’t waste time when it comes to getting patients in the door, conducting initial evaluations, and completing reports and work letters in a timely manner.
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Patient-Centered
We provide an individualized and evidence-based approach to treatment. Providers work closely with each individual patient to ensure that care is tailored to their needs, values, and goals. We emphasize collaboration, mutual respect, and the development of a strong working alliance with each patient.
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Thorough
Navigating the worker’s compensation system requires an understanding of its complex medicolegal context. We monitor the course of each patient through our services to ensure that nobody falls through the cracks. We consistently re-evaluate our approach to each patient’s care in order to maximize benefit without sacrificing efficiency.
Meet the Team
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Brooke Ferragamo, PhD
FOUNDER AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
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Arielle Payes, PsyD
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
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Larry Britton Jr., PsyD
REGISTERED PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATE
In-person (in San Francisco) and Telehealth services available
Clinic Location and Hours
3321 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA 94118
Hours
Monday–Friday
9am–6pm
Phone
(415) 702-0902
Fax
(415) 231-2619
Email
support@emerginginsightspsych.com
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How we can help
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A licensed clinical psychologist provides a thorough and efficient initial evaluation to determine the work-relatedness of the injury and the appropriate diagnosis. An individualized treatment plan is created for each patient on the basis of the findings of this evaluation.
During the initial evaluation and treatment planning process, we take into account each patient’s individual personality, environment, personal history, historical and cultural context, religious beliefs, and value system. Understanding each patient as a whole person is essential for providing appropriate care.
We also do our best to learn about the context in which the work injury occurred. We try to get enough information about the surrounding workplace culture, job duties, and pre-existing personal challenges to be able to create a feasible return-to-work plan during the treatment planning process.
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Although it may seem counterintuitive, psychotherapy can be useful for reducing time spent away from work. For example, a study by Wizner et al (2021) found that workers with PTSD who participated in mental health services (e.g., psychological assessment and psychotherapy) were out of work for the least amount of time.
Our team may utilize the following evidence-based approaches to treat folks with PTSD:
Cognitive Processing Therapy
Mindfulness-based therapies
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Although we think about pain as something that happens to the body, there is ample evidence that physical pain (especially chronic pain) is both a somatic and psychological phenomenon. The experience of physical pain can be exacerbated by emotions such as stress, fear, anxiety, depression, and anger.
Psychotherapeutic approaches such as Pain Reprocessing Therapy can actually change how physical pain is experienced in the body.
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Languishing for months or years on temporarily totally disabled status is not helpful for anyone.
Our patients’ recovery is our top priority. According to our model, successful recovery includes a speedy return to what life was like before the workplace injury occurred.
We create individualized return-to-work plans in order to help patients resume their usual and customary work duties as soon as possible.
We carefully monitor the progress that each patient is making towards restoration of their occupational functioning, and we adjust work letters accordingly.