The PSYPACT Commission has determined that Dr. Valdes has met all requirements for the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT). Dr. Valdes is approved to practice telepsychology under the authority of PSYPACT in PSYPACT participating states. For a list of current PSYPACT participating states, please visit the PSYPACT website at: https://www.psypact.org/psypactmap.
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Dr. Valdes and Dr. Krinsky attended the American Academy of Forensic Psychology workshops, “Contemporary Issues in Forensic Psychology,” on February 4-5, 2023 in Charleston, S.C.
Dr. Valdes is now also licensed as a telehealth provider in the state of Florida. For more information, click on: https://flhealthsource.gov/telehealth/.
Hear Dr. Luis Valdes discuss Resilience and Mental Fitness on a podcast from 3/15/2022 on WRFG. Click below.
Dr. Valdes will be presenting a 3-hour workshop entitled: Coaching High-Flyers: An Integrated Approach for Developing the Mindset of Grit and Resilience in Leaders and Organizations on Friday, April 29, 2022 from 2 pm to 5 pm. The workshop will be offered by the Georgia Psychological Association as a professional training workshop for continuing education credits for psychologists as a part of the Georgia Psychological Association workshop offerings for their annual meeting in 2022.
Measure Your Cognitive Performance to Optimize Brain Health—Creyos Health is Now Available at PSYCHOGENYX.
At PSYCHOGENYX, we are committed to cognitive health, which is why we are introducing cognitive performance assessments from Creyos to measure how your brain is doing over time. Our consulting practice now includes a quick, fun series of tasks that objectively measure your memory, reasoning, verbal ability, and attention—all facets of cognition that are important in your everyday life.
Why Measure Cognition?
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it,” goes an old business saying, and it applies to health too. We all have a subjective idea of how our brains are doing—some days we feel “off” or have “brain fog,” while other days we feel like we can take on the world. But how much better are we on the good days? And are lifestyle or health changes making a difference?
That’s where cognitive assessment comes in. By putting a number to these subjective feelings, we can discover what is causing the good days in order to have more of them.
Improved cognitive performance has important effects on your everyday life. Whether you’re remembering where you parked your car, learning a new task at work, or trying to figure out your taxes, your brain health affects nearly every aspect of your life.
Creyos Health: An Engaging and Scientifically-Validated Cognitive Assessment Platform
PSYCHOGENYX uses the Creyos Health cognitive assessment platform to measure brain health. We offer these measures to assess, monitor, and manage core areas of cognition to ensure that your mental fitness program is on the right track.
The Creyos Health tasks have been validated by decades of scientific research, and are proven to measure the most important aspects of cognition. Performance is directly linked with the areas of your brain that are required for each cognitive domain. But more importantly, the tasks are fun, and only take 3-5 minutes each to complete. Now, not only will you feel better, but you can objectively track how your brain is responding to your mental conditioning and fitness program.
Is This an IQ Test?
Creyos Health assessments are not an IQ test! Think of it more like a blood pressure cuff for your brain. There’s no judgment, and the goal is progress over time, because we acknowledge that brain health changes from day to day. That’s why we believe we can improve or maintain your performance through our mental conditioning and fitness program, and now include cognitive assessments as a standard part of the program.
Are Cognitive Assessments Relevant to Me?
Cognitive health affects almost every part of your life. If you are visiting PSYCHOGENYX to treat a specific ailment, it likely has a cognitive outcome—even conditions that have traditionally been seen as purely physical, such as pain, have cognitive effects. You’re not thinking well if you’re not feeling well. Discuss cognitive assessments with your healthcare practitioner to see how the brain benefits of mental conditioning and fitness can help improve your life.
What Do Results Look Like?
Your Creyos Health report is designed to be easy to read and understood easily. It becomes more valuable with each additional assessment, showing your progress and letting you know when significant changes occur. Your healthcare practitioner will review your report after each assessment in order to measure progress and make adjustments as necessary.
How Do I Get Started?
Dr. Valdes will be presenting a 6-hour workshop entitled: Sports and Performance Psychology Techniques Applied to Psychotherapy with Non-Athletes on Friday, August 7, 2020 from 9 am to 4 pm. The workshop will be offered by the Georgia Psychological Association as a professional training workshop for continuing education credits for psychologists. If you are interested, you can register by clicking the following link:
https://www.gapsychology.org/event/2020august7
Watch Dr. Luis Valdes discuss Resilience and Mental Toughness for Musicians on YouTube in an interview given to the Atlanta Federation of Musicians on their program “Night School at the Hall.” Click below.
Dr. Valdes was interviewed by DecaturFM internet radio station, a new, local, start-up in Decatur, Georgia on Thursday, October 18, 2018. He discussed sports psychology and mental fitness.
Watch the video below.
PSYCHOGENYX, LLC has partnered with Peerless Performance, LLC, a woman-owned, full service performance improvement, culture engineering agency. PSYCHOGENYX will provide executive and management consulting services and coaching to the partnership's mutual clientele.
Dr. Valdes of Psychogenyx will be presenting his newest professional workshop, "Coaching High-Flyers: An Integrated Approach for Developing the Mindset of Grit and Resilience in Leaders and Organizations", as a part of the Georgia Psychological Association workshop offerings for 2018 on February 16th in Atlanta, Georgia.
The 2018 Conference Committee of the Society of Consulting Psychology is pleased to inform Psychogenyx that Dr. Valdes' concurrent session workshop, "Coaching High-Flyers: An Integrated Approach for Developing the Mindset of Grit and Resilience in Leaders and Organizations," has been accepted for inclusion in the 2018 Consulting Psychology Conference, scheduled for February 8 – 11, 2018 in Savannah, Georgia.
Drs. Luis Valdes and Kim Krinsky attended the American Academy of Forensic Psychology workshop "Improving Testimony in Depositions and Trials" in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 4, 2017.
Dr. Valdes presented a workshop for the Georgia Psychological Association annual meeting in Atlanta, GA on April 2, 2017. The workshop was designed for licensed psychologists who are members of GPA. The workshop was entitled "Practice Diversification for Fun and Profit."
Dr. Valdes of Psychogenyx will be conducting a workshop at the 2017 APA Division 13 Consulting Psychology Conference in Seattle, Washington at the Seattle Waterfront Marriott at 3:00 PM on February 10, 2017. His workshop is entitled: Leadership Development Through the Lens of Sports and Performance Psychology.
The session is designed to provide a model for high-impact individual and team training programs. Participants learn how world-class athletes, teams and coaches perfect their skills, refine their game plans and execute in a highly competitive and pressure packed environment. The Peak Performance Training is based on the application of the Peak Performance System™.
Dr. Krinsky recently published an article entitled "Whistle-blowing in American police agencies" published in the journal Crime Psychology Review through Taylor & Francis online. The article can be accessed at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YwGghmbUavR8CvdYqvxf/full
Dr. Valdes presented a workshop at the Georgia Psychological Association Annual Meeting entitled "Group Therapy for Men: An Integrated Approach to Treatment." The workshop was offered on Sunday, April 17, 2016 from 9:30am-12:30pm at the Marriott Augusta at the Convention Center (2 Tenth Street, Augusta, GA 30901).
Drs. Valdes and Krinsky attended the 7th Annual NaBITA (the National Behavioral Intervention Team Association) Conference in San Antonio, Texas on November 17-19, 2015.
Dr. Kim Krinsky of PSYCHOGENYX has had a recent article published in Crime Psychology Review entitled "A review of eyewitness identification in the United States: problems and policies."
Dr. Valdes presented a training workshop entitled "Ethics, Social Media and the Internet" on September 16, 2016 at the Georgia Psychological Association offices. This workshop was requested by and offered through GPA and was designed for psychologists and other mental health professionals.
Dr. Valdes previously presented this workshop at the Georgia Psychological Association Annual Meeting on Saturday, April 25, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia.
"This workshop will explore various marketing and service delivery options available to psychologists in addition to summarizing and critiquing the current state of the digital world as it pertains to psychologists and mental health care. Dr. Valdes will demonstrate a plan that he used to take advantage of the remarkable tools that the internet provides. Particular attention will be paid to ethical guidelines for psychologists, potential violations, the recent guidelines for telepsychology, and what new frontiers have yet to be addressed by the guidelines. Participants will be offered an overview of ethical issues and dilemmas that can be encountered as they explore the expanse of the internet. "