Khalil Sakalla, Ph.D is a Psychologist who graduated from University of North Dakota in 2004. As a seasoned clinician, Khalil has 20 years of experience in the field and is licensed in Florida, and all other states eligible in PSYPACT.
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Working with seniors is very rewarding, especially that I specialized in GeroPsychology in my raining years and had the pleasure of working with such a population facing challenges in advanced age of health and physical limitations, or just natural age-related changes. The fact we are living longer, such challenges are more and more common and we continue to learn how to make the needed adjustment and therapy can be very helpful in processing such a wonderful change. Over the past 21 years, I had the pleasure of working with patients across the lifespan of mixed ages and that helped me become an even better GeroPsychologist helping patties navigate through the stages of life as well as a generalist therapist helping people of various age span.
Online psychotherapy has proven to be effective for seniors as well other younger population of all ages as it made treatment more widely available at the finger tips and most common devices. Especially for seniors, the treatment became accessible for those living away from treatment centers, not wanting to drive long or even short distance unnecessarily. The treatment became easily accessible that many patients became less resistant to treatment, less pressure and bypassing stigma that still exist about such treatment. The ease and efficacy of treatment were encouraging to both patients and healthcare providers alike as productivity and improvement surged in such domain of platform of connection.
In my education and training, my focus was on understating and helping mostly seniors with rounded training of patients across the lifespan. Working with seniors, I managed to work on adjustment issues of retirement, marriages and divorces, empty nesting transitions, health impacted couples, and cognitive screening and differentiation of depression vs dementia. Grown children’s issues, as seniors’ job raising kids does not stop at times in old age, as in parents stepping in to help their grandchildren when the offspring face challenges of their own. Working across generations was rewarding in navigating such challenges, in light of adjusting to life and aging changes.
After 21 years of practice now in 2024, when I am asked “what inspired you to become a therapist” kind of questions, it seems secondary to the better question of what keeps you energetic practicing all those years and doing more not less. The rewarding nature of helping others can be a gift at times that keeps growing. It started there as seeing my helping nature and my choice to pursue that on a higher educational level and in more professional settings. The progress and positive response of my patients to my treatment fuels my energy daily and serves as role modeling sometimes when I stay healthy and doing more work as I grow older myself reflecting productivity. The wisdom I am gaining living through my patients’ challenges, make me a better person and a much more effective provider.
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