Do you know that you can reduce your chronic pain when you shift your negative self talk into a positive one? When you practice mindfulness with the things that you're thinking of and be aware of the things that stress you out, you can eliminate them. It can dramatically lessen them as you move toward a pain free life. Do you want to learn and hear more about this? Join me together with Dr. Heather as she talks more about it. 

Dr. Martarella began working with patients with chronic pain in 2006 during a postdoctoral fellowship at Kaiser. In 2012, she sustained an injury during an adventure trip in Costa Rica that resulted in chronic pain and ultimately led to a career shift by early 2014 to work exclusively with patients with chronic pain. She has since served as the Director of Compass Center for Functional Restoration at Sacramento Pain Clinic, an interdisciplinary program for patients with chronic pain resulting from work related injuries. She currently teaches a pain management skills course and provides individual pain recovery treatment sessions at a Kaiser Permanente Pain Management department in California. 

Dr. Martarella received her masters and doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology with a multicultural competency emphasis from John F. Kennedy University. She completed post-doctoral fellowships at the University of San Francisco and Kaiser. She has served as the Department Chair, Director of Training, and Associate Professor for the Department of Counseling, Sports and Forensic Psychology at Ar- gosy University in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has also taught graduate psychology courses for Alliant University California School of Professional Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, John F. Kennedy University, and San Francisco State University. She is a past president of the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California. She has maintained a part-time private psychotherapy and consultation practice since 2007. Clinical Psychologist CA#21758