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The Woodlands Psychiatry
Committed to helping people feel their mental, physical and emotional best
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Address:
- 8111 Ashlane Way
- Suite 221
- The Woodlands, TX 77382
About Us
Peter Berndt, M.D. brings a lifetime of experience, first as a family physician and now as a psychiatrist, to his current work with individuals, companies, and organizations in The Woodlands, Texas. He was a small town family physician for 18 years. Dr. Berndt did all the things a family physician did in those times… everything from seeing patients in the office to house calls to delivering several hundred babies over the course of his career.
“Over the years, I saw more and more clearly how stress affected people and their health,” Dr. Berndt says. “To always treat many of the illnesses that came about when a patient was stressed eventually made it mandatory to explore ways and means to teach patients to handle stress more effectively and thereby attempt to prevent illness. Luckily, I had an associate, Jack Gear, M.D., who persuaded me to receive training in a workshop given by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. That workshop, the first of many, was a turning point because it dispelled my skepticism about medical hypnosis. I also saw that here was a way to perhaps be more effective in helping my patients relieve physical illness through psychological means. These techniques and interventions seemed much more interesting than simply handing out medication, except where it was strictly necessary. I began using hypnosis for conditioning for childbirth, and many conditions that I saw as being stress-related such as migraine headaches, asthma, and pain syndromes, and others. I was astonished by the results that could be obtained in many cases. After some years of combining family practice with psychotherapy it became obvious that I needed more training in the field of psychiatry.”
Dr. Berndt then began a psychiatric residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, which he completed in 1982. He has been in private practice since then, most recently in The Woodlands, Texas, after finishing a stint as psychiatric consultant for ICE at their detention center in Denver.
“I think that working in psychiatry is to me the most interesting part of medicine. To re-educate patients about more healthy behaviors and thinking patterns, to give them more control over themselves and to help liberate the healthy person within every patient is challenging but also extremely gratifying,” Dr. Berndt says. “The process of psychotherapy is demanding, requiring as it does a variety of skills: the ability to read a patient, empathy, verbal skills, and the ability to be supportive as well as insightful. The work is endlessly interesting and rewarding and the trust that my patients give me is the greatest gift anyone could receive.”
Our Philosophy About Helping Patients
Dr. Peter Berndt, M.D. is committed to helping people feel their mental, physical and emotional best. Whether working with individuals in private session, with company executives or employees in a stress management program, or patients in assisted living centers and nursing homes, or facilitating family support groups, Dr. Peter Berndt is committed to helping improve the lives of others.
Dr. Berndt believes that:
People have an innate wish and capability for balance and health. Dr. Berndt works to align himself with that inner force, supporting and encouraging healthy behaviors by resolving past traumatic experiences and by teaching stress management techniques.
Many people experience problems because they have never learned effective ways to know about and to express their feelings. They may have come from parental homes where expression of feeling was never encouraged or supported if not forbidden. Storing unexpressed feelings requires denial to achieve, and denial is a coping skill of very limited effectiveness. Furthermore, denial tends to break down over time. Dr. Berndt assists his clients in recognizing feelings and expressing them in words in order to finish unfinished business from the past. The aim of this approach is try to resolve unresolved issues in such a way that they do not continue to trouble the patient over a lifetime.
Psychotherapy, an educational process done in a non-critical and supportive environment, helps people learn new behaviors and ways of thinking. They can then successfully integrate those changes into their daily lives and create healthy habits.
Areas of concentration, among others, are:
Stress-related medical and psychiatric illness
Women's issues
Interpersonal relationships
PTSD and related syndromes
Depression (including post-partum depression)
Anxiety
Pain syndromes
Pregnancy and fertility related issues
Clinical hypnosis for relaxation training, conditioning for childbirth, and treatment of habit disorders (smoking cessation, weight control, fear of flying and other phobias)
Work-related issues (stress management, conflict resolution, change management, team building, and creative/innovative-thinking workshops).
If you or someone you know are looking for a psychiatrist in The Woodlands or surrounding areas, please contact Dr. Peter Berndt to set up an initial assessment. Please note that the unique orientation of Dr. Berndt's practice is psychotherapy rather than medication management as the predominant approach. Because of that and because insurance companies generally do not reimburse for psychotherapy ( though they do reimburse for medication management ) Dr. Berndt is not able to accept insurance is a form of payment for services.
If you do need to be seen under your insurance, you might contact your carrier to ask if there is someone in your area who is on the panel as a treatment resource for you.
For more information about Dr. Berndt's services, please contact his office or contact us through our Psychology Today listing.
“Over the years, I saw more and more clearly how stress affected people and their health,” Dr. Berndt says. “To always treat many of the illnesses that came about when a patient was stressed eventually made it mandatory to explore ways and means to teach patients to handle stress more effectively and thereby attempt to prevent illness. Luckily, I had an associate, Jack Gear, M.D., who persuaded me to receive training in a workshop given by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. That workshop, the first of many, was a turning point because it dispelled my skepticism about medical hypnosis. I also saw that here was a way to perhaps be more effective in helping my patients relieve physical illness through psychological means. These techniques and interventions seemed much more interesting than simply handing out medication, except where it was strictly necessary. I began using hypnosis for conditioning for childbirth, and many conditions that I saw as being stress-related such as migraine headaches, asthma, and pain syndromes, and others. I was astonished by the results that could be obtained in many cases. After some years of combining family practice with psychotherapy it became obvious that I needed more training in the field of psychiatry.”
Dr. Berndt then began a psychiatric residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, which he completed in 1982. He has been in private practice since then, most recently in The Woodlands, Texas, after finishing a stint as psychiatric consultant for ICE at their detention center in Denver.
“I think that working in psychiatry is to me the most interesting part of medicine. To re-educate patients about more healthy behaviors and thinking patterns, to give them more control over themselves and to help liberate the healthy person within every patient is challenging but also extremely gratifying,” Dr. Berndt says. “The process of psychotherapy is demanding, requiring as it does a variety of skills: the ability to read a patient, empathy, verbal skills, and the ability to be supportive as well as insightful. The work is endlessly interesting and rewarding and the trust that my patients give me is the greatest gift anyone could receive.”
Our Philosophy About Helping Patients
Dr. Peter Berndt, M.D. is committed to helping people feel their mental, physical and emotional best. Whether working with individuals in private session, with company executives or employees in a stress management program, or patients in assisted living centers and nursing homes, or facilitating family support groups, Dr. Peter Berndt is committed to helping improve the lives of others.
Dr. Berndt believes that:
People have an innate wish and capability for balance and health. Dr. Berndt works to align himself with that inner force, supporting and encouraging healthy behaviors by resolving past traumatic experiences and by teaching stress management techniques.
Many people experience problems because they have never learned effective ways to know about and to express their feelings. They may have come from parental homes where expression of feeling was never encouraged or supported if not forbidden. Storing unexpressed feelings requires denial to achieve, and denial is a coping skill of very limited effectiveness. Furthermore, denial tends to break down over time. Dr. Berndt assists his clients in recognizing feelings and expressing them in words in order to finish unfinished business from the past. The aim of this approach is try to resolve unresolved issues in such a way that they do not continue to trouble the patient over a lifetime.
Psychotherapy, an educational process done in a non-critical and supportive environment, helps people learn new behaviors and ways of thinking. They can then successfully integrate those changes into their daily lives and create healthy habits.
Areas of concentration, among others, are:
Stress-related medical and psychiatric illness
Women's issues
Interpersonal relationships
PTSD and related syndromes
Depression (including post-partum depression)
Anxiety
Pain syndromes
Pregnancy and fertility related issues
Clinical hypnosis for relaxation training, conditioning for childbirth, and treatment of habit disorders (smoking cessation, weight control, fear of flying and other phobias)
Work-related issues (stress management, conflict resolution, change management, team building, and creative/innovative-thinking workshops).
If you or someone you know are looking for a psychiatrist in The Woodlands or surrounding areas, please contact Dr. Peter Berndt to set up an initial assessment. Please note that the unique orientation of Dr. Berndt's practice is psychotherapy rather than medication management as the predominant approach. Because of that and because insurance companies generally do not reimburse for psychotherapy ( though they do reimburse for medication management ) Dr. Berndt is not able to accept insurance is a form of payment for services.
If you do need to be seen under your insurance, you might contact your carrier to ask if there is someone in your area who is on the panel as a treatment resource for you.
For more information about Dr. Berndt's services, please contact his office or contact us through our Psychology Today listing.
Peter Berndt, M.D. brings a lifetime of experience, first as a family physician and now as a psychiatrist, to his current work with individuals, companies, and organizations in The Woodlands, Texas. He was a small town family physician for 18 years. Dr. Berndt did all the things a family physician did in those times… everything from seeing patients in the office to house calls to delivering several hundred babies over the course of his career.
“Over the years, I saw more and more clearly how stress affected people and their health,” Dr. Berndt says. “To always treat many of the illnesses that came about when a patient was stressed eventually made it mandatory to explore ways and means to teach patients to handle stress more effectively and thereby attempt to prevent illness. Luckily, I had an associate, Jack Gear, M.D., who persuaded me to receive training in a workshop given by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. That workshop, the first of many, was a turning point because it dispelled my skepticism about medical hypnosis. I also saw that here was a way to perhaps be more effective in helping my patients relieve physical illness through psychological means. These techniques and interventions seemed much more interesting than simply handing out medication, except where it was strictly necessary. I began using hypnosis for conditioning for childbirth, and many conditions that I saw as being stress-related such as migraine headaches, asthma, and pain syndromes, and others. I was astonished by the results that could be obtained in many cases. After some years of combining family practice with psychotherapy it became obvious that I needed more training in the field of psychiatry.”
Dr. Berndt then began a psychiatric residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, which he completed in 1982. He has been in private practice since then, most recently in The Woodlands, Texas, after finishing a stint as psychiatric consultant for ICE at their detention center in Denver.
“I think that working in psychiatry is to me the most interesting part of medicine. To re-educate patients about more healthy behaviors and thinking patterns, to give them more control over themselves and to help liberate the healthy person within every patient is challenging but also extremely gratifying,” Dr. Berndt says. “The process of psychotherapy is demanding, requiring as it does a variety of skills: the ability to read a patient, empathy, verbal skills, and the ability to be supportive as well as insightful. The work is endlessly interesting and rewarding and the trust that my patients give me is the greatest gift anyone could receive.”
Our Philosophy About Helping Patients
Dr. Peter Berndt, M.D. is committed to helping people feel their mental, physical and emotional best. Whether working with individuals in private session, with company executives or employees in a stress management program, or patients in assisted living centers and nursing homes, or facilitating family support groups, Dr. Peter Berndt is committed to helping improve the lives of others.
Dr. Berndt believes that:
People have an innate wish and capability for balance and health. Dr. Berndt works to align himself with that inner force, supporting and encouraging healthy behaviors by resolving past traumatic experiences and by teaching stress management techniques.
Many people experience problems because they have never learned effective ways to know about and to express their feelings. They may have come from parental homes where expression of feeling was never encouraged or supported if not forbidden. Storing unexpressed feelings requires denial to achieve, and denial is a coping skill of very limited effectiveness. Furthermore, denial tends to break down over time. Dr. Berndt assists his clients in recognizing feelings and expressing them in words in order to finish unfinished business from the past. The aim of this approach is try to resolve unresolved issues in such a way that they do not continue to trouble the patient over a lifetime.
Psychotherapy, an educational process done in a non-critical and supportive environment, helps people learn new behaviors and ways of thinking. They can then successfully integrate those changes into their daily lives and create healthy habits.
Areas of concentration, among others, are:
Stress-related medical and psychiatric illness
Women's issues
Interpersonal relationships
PTSD and related syndromes
Depression (including post-partum depression)
Anxiety
Pain syndromes
Pregnancy and fertility related issues
Clinical hypnosis for relaxation training, conditioning for childbirth, and treatment of habit disorders (smoking cessation, weight control, fear of flying and other phobias)
Work-related issues (stress management, conflict resolution, change management, team building, and creative/innovative-thinking workshops).
If you or someone you know are looking for a psychiatrist in The Woodlands or surrounding areas, please contact Dr. Peter Berndt to set up an initial assessment. Please note that the unique orientation of Dr. Berndt's practice is psychotherapy rather than medication management as the predominant approach. Because of that and because insurance companies generally do not reimburse for psychotherapy ( though they do reimburse for medication management ) Dr. Berndt is not able to accept insurance is a form of payment for services.
If you do need to be seen under your insurance, you might contact your carrier to ask if there is someone in your area who is on the panel as a treatment resource for you.
For more information about Dr. Berndt's services, please contact his office or contact us through our Psychology Today listing.
“Over the years, I saw more and more clearly how stress affected people and their health,” Dr. Berndt says. “To always treat many of the illnesses that came about when a patient was stressed eventually made it mandatory to explore ways and means to teach patients to handle stress more effectively and thereby attempt to prevent illness. Luckily, I had an associate, Jack Gear, M.D., who persuaded me to receive training in a workshop given by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. That workshop, the first of many, was a turning point because it dispelled my skepticism about medical hypnosis. I also saw that here was a way to perhaps be more effective in helping my patients relieve physical illness through psychological means. These techniques and interventions seemed much more interesting than simply handing out medication, except where it was strictly necessary. I began using hypnosis for conditioning for childbirth, and many conditions that I saw as being stress-related such as migraine headaches, asthma, and pain syndromes, and others. I was astonished by the results that could be obtained in many cases. After some years of combining family practice with psychotherapy it became obvious that I needed more training in the field of psychiatry.”
Dr. Berndt then began a psychiatric residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, which he completed in 1982. He has been in private practice since then, most recently in The Woodlands, Texas, after finishing a stint as psychiatric consultant for ICE at their detention center in Denver.
“I think that working in psychiatry is to me the most interesting part of medicine. To re-educate patients about more healthy behaviors and thinking patterns, to give them more control over themselves and to help liberate the healthy person within every patient is challenging but also extremely gratifying,” Dr. Berndt says. “The process of psychotherapy is demanding, requiring as it does a variety of skills: the ability to read a patient, empathy, verbal skills, and the ability to be supportive as well as insightful. The work is endlessly interesting and rewarding and the trust that my patients give me is the greatest gift anyone could receive.”
Our Philosophy About Helping Patients
Dr. Peter Berndt, M.D. is committed to helping people feel their mental, physical and emotional best. Whether working with individuals in private session, with company executives or employees in a stress management program, or patients in assisted living centers and nursing homes, or facilitating family support groups, Dr. Peter Berndt is committed to helping improve the lives of others.
Dr. Berndt believes that:
People have an innate wish and capability for balance and health. Dr. Berndt works to align himself with that inner force, supporting and encouraging healthy behaviors by resolving past traumatic experiences and by teaching stress management techniques.
Many people experience problems because they have never learned effective ways to know about and to express their feelings. They may have come from parental homes where expression of feeling was never encouraged or supported if not forbidden. Storing unexpressed feelings requires denial to achieve, and denial is a coping skill of very limited effectiveness. Furthermore, denial tends to break down over time. Dr. Berndt assists his clients in recognizing feelings and expressing them in words in order to finish unfinished business from the past. The aim of this approach is try to resolve unresolved issues in such a way that they do not continue to trouble the patient over a lifetime.
Psychotherapy, an educational process done in a non-critical and supportive environment, helps people learn new behaviors and ways of thinking. They can then successfully integrate those changes into their daily lives and create healthy habits.
Areas of concentration, among others, are:
Stress-related medical and psychiatric illness
Women's issues
Interpersonal relationships
PTSD and related syndromes
Depression (including post-partum depression)
Anxiety
Pain syndromes
Pregnancy and fertility related issues
Clinical hypnosis for relaxation training, conditioning for childbirth, and treatment of habit disorders (smoking cessation, weight control, fear of flying and other phobias)
Work-related issues (stress management, conflict resolution, change management, team building, and creative/innovative-thinking workshops).
If you or someone you know are looking for a psychiatrist in The Woodlands or surrounding areas, please contact Dr. Peter Berndt to set up an initial assessment. Please note that the unique orientation of Dr. Berndt's practice is psychotherapy rather than medication management as the predominant approach. Because of that and because insurance companies generally do not reimburse for psychotherapy ( though they do reimburse for medication management ) Dr. Berndt is not able to accept insurance is a form of payment for services.
If you do need to be seen under your insurance, you might contact your carrier to ask if there is someone in your area who is on the panel as a treatment resource for you.
For more information about Dr. Berndt's services, please contact his office or contact us through our Psychology Today listing.
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