Mindfulness, Anxiety, and Focus at Work with Dr. Karolina Pekala

Angela Stephens sits down with Dr. Karolina Pekala, a licensed clinical psychologist who works with eating disorders, anxiety, public speaking fears, and chronic pain. Dr. Pekala shares how she resets between back to back patient sessions by returning to the present moment, how to tell whether therapy is actually working, and why summer brings a spike in eating disorder cases. She and Angela also get into anxiety and focus at work: batching email instead of living in the inbox, protecting a block of deep work, and the quiet cost of the phone at the dinner table. Dr. Pekala is licensed in New York, holds a permit in Florida, and will soon be licensed in Rhode Island. Learn more at nyhealthhypnosis.com/dr-karolina-pekala or connect with her on LinkedIn, and catch her career story on RE-Focus Careers.