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Our Mission & Aim

Our Mission: to provide efficient, compassionate and evidence-based psychological care in order to alleviate emotional distress and maximize human potential 

Our Aim: to form a powerful therapeutic relationship that can be used to enhance emotional and mental clarity so the individual can flourish 

Our Staff

Georgia D. Andrianopoulos, PhD
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Brain Fitness, Inc.

Dr. Andrianopoulos is passionately committed to helping people reach their true potential. She is a scientist and avid humanitarian with the aim of bringing science to the “kitchen table” to combat life limiting self defeating and self damaging behaviors and obstacles. she has over 25 yrs of experience of working with people struggling with anxiety and fear, sadness, relationship struggles, addiction to food or substances, attentional disorders chronic pain including gastrointestinal problems. Her biopsychosocial integrative approach to treatment incorporates physical, emotional and cognitive factors, diet, stress, coping strategies, current life challenges and living circumstances and interpersonal relationships. 

Dr Andrianopoulos is an educator, author and specialist in Behavioral Medicine. She received her doctorate in neurophysiologic psychology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where she studied the interconnections between the brain, emotion, health and disease especially diseases of the gastrointestinal track.
As a post doctorate fellow and faculty in the department of GI surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago she focused exclusively in the role of emotions, stress and lifestyle factors on eating and body weight, and the effect of specific foods on the gastrointestinal tract. 

As a member of the medical faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine she was jointly appointed in the Department of Surgery and Psychiatry, and participated in medical resident education and provided clinical services for patients with wide range of emotional conditions e.g.: mood disorders, eating disorders and coping with serious physical conditions or chronic illness.

Her scientific publications include the impact of nutrients (like milk, iron, fish oil, calcium, chlorophyll) and lifestyle patterns like exercise and stress on the immune system, health and disease. In addition to scientific articles, she has written chapters for medical textbooks and presented in national and international conferences on the topic of emotions, stress and disease. Dr. Andrianopoulos is also the author of Retrain your Brain Reshape your Body (McGraw Hill, 2008) which provides tools to build a stronger more resilient body and mind as a way to regain physical and emotional wellness. For a complete list of her publications visit: http://scholar.google.com/ 

She brings a unique ability to partner with the patient and share in their unique challenges while using evidence based treatments to boost emotional stability and more effective life strategies.

Dr. Andrianopoulos is uniquely trained in the area of health and behavior and brings expertise from the physical as well as the psychological perspective to address the unique needs of patients with emotional and physical conditions. She is using the functional medicine- integrative approach to help people overcome and thrive in site of emotional and physical setbacks. 
She is also the author of Retrain your Brain Reshape your Body (McGraw Hill) which brings insight into the links between the brain, emotions, food cravings, eating and overweight. 

Dr. Andrianopoulos is a frequent guest on health and wellness radio and TV shows and written media, where she offers brain-based solutions to health and wellness. 
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