Cardiologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Chiropractor providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dentist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dermatologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Family Physician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
OB-GYN providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Ophthalmologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Orthopedic Surgeon providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Pediatrician providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Physical Therapist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Podiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Psychiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Stanley Mathew, MD, is an exceptional pain medicine specialist and physiatrist. Dr. Mathew provides services at American Rehabilitation Medicine in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Dubuque, Iowa, for patients who have chronic pain conditions that affect the back and neck, joints, as well as migraines.
Dr. Mathew is a native of New York, where he spent 10 years as medical director of St. Luke’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He began his career studying for a medical degree at the Medical University of Lublin in Poland. In 2006, Dr. Mathew took up an internship at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center Department of Internal Medicine in New York City. He then moved on to New York Medical College in Valhalla for his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation. In his final year, Dr. Mathew served as chief resident.
Dr. Mathew holds board certifications from the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the American Board of Disability Analysts, and the American Board of Pain Medicine. Among his particular interests are pain management, spinal and musculoskeletal medicine, spasticity management, electrodiagnostics, and both pre and post-operative management of orthopedic and neurosurgical patients.
In his own words, Dr. Mathew believes, “Humans are too complex to relegate diagnosis and treatment solely to ‘processes.’ Great physicians always apply an artist’s sensibility. Diagnosis requires an artist’s eye, a writer’s ear for dialogue, and a sense of composition.”
Kari Finnegan, PhD, is a licensed psychologist at the Rein Center, an integrative psychiatry practice based in Iowa City, Iowa. She is also an avid yogi who is excited to practice in a setting that embraces the mind-body connection.
Dr. Finnegan strives to create a safe, transparent, and empowering environment in which you and her work towards making changes that will bring you closer to a satisfying and fulfilling life. She uses a strengths-based, collaborative approach to help each client feel empowered, develop insight and improve their quality of life.
Dr. Finnegan enjoys working with various clients and needs, including those experiencing depression, anxiety, gender, sexuality, grief/loss, trauma, and more. She prefers to view the therapy relationship as collaborative and egalitarian.
Being from a military family, Dr. Finnegan has always enjoyed working with veterans and their families. She is personally interested and invested in physical health and well-being, and as much as clients are interested, she likes to incorporate such a focus into her therapeutic work.
Dr. Finnegan received clinical training primarily through VA clinics, medical centers, universities, and private practice. Her practice includes both individual therapy and cognitive assessment (e.g., ADHD and learning disorder evaluations, DDS evaluations, etc.) for adolescents and adults.
Amy Rein, PhD, is a psychologist and the founder of Rein Center, an integrative psychiatry center based in Iowa City, Iowa. She has been practicing psychology for over 25 years in Vancouver, Miami, the Virgin Islands, and, most recently, Iowa City. She has offered a holistic approach to psychotherapy in both Canada and the US.
Dr. Rein trained in many modalities of therapy, including psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral, but she also uses more experiential treatments, such as EMDR, for releasing patterns and traumas that are stuck and resistant to talk therapy. She has had many clients express a "WOW" when an issue that has haunted them for decades is released in a matter of hours. She also incorporates other modalities, including yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and a strong understanding of functional medicine, nutrition, naturopathy, and Chinese medicine, into her approach. In doing so, her clients tend to feel relief that they are receiving an integrated point of view that truly looks at them as a whole person rather than just their symptoms.
Dr. Rein offers counseling and psychotherapy for treating depression, anxiety, insomnia, stress, trauma, PTSD, and stress-related illness, as well as couples counseling, marital therapy, and family therapy. She is trained as both an adult psychologist and a child / adolescent psychologist. Her approach to therapy is goal oriented and slightly directive. This means that it is rare to hear her just say, "hmm." She provides you with lots of psycho-educational information, feedback, and coping tools. She can help you to identify the root causes of your distress and heal them. She can also explain to you, from a psychological theoretical framework, what is going on, and she will also help you to understand from a more holistic viewpoint. Within the first couple of sessions, Dr. Rein provides insight into why you are feeling distressed and a treatment plan for how you will work together to bring about meaningful and lasting change. During therapy, she encourages clients to have a say in the work they will do together, and she guides them to be active in-between sessions to continue their therapeutic work through meditation, reading, or other activities such as yoga, exercise, journaling, and healthy eating.
Dr. Rein also has some meditations recorded that will be available to you to help with anxiety, relaxation, mindfulness, chronic pain, and insomnia.
Although the work they may do may be difficult at times, she enjoys having a laugh with her patients as they work on finding joy, happiness, and deeper meaning in their lives.
“Dr Rein has been the catalyst to my healing! She is compassionate and really listens and is very intuitive to get the core of problem! She is an expert in EMDR which has been a life saver for me! Top notch in the area!!!”
Shannon Breitenstein, LMHC, is a licensed mental health counselor at Rein Center, an integrative psychiatry practice based in Iowa City, Iowa.
Feeling heard and understood is an important part of relationships, including the relationship with your therapist. Being supported and connected while navigating difficulties and/or life choices will be a part of improving your emotional health, healing, and empowerment. Shannon enjoys being a part of this process while someone is finding their way through life events and believe in working collaboratively on solving challenges.
She works with adults, children (ages 5+), couples, and families. She is very familiar with working with those in the LGBTQ+ community. She has worked with children and families for 25 years, returning to school to become a therapist in 2016.
Shannon routinely uses treatment modalities that include MBCBT, CBT, DBT, EFT, and ACT techniques, all within a person-centered context. Her areas of focus include anxiety, depression, ADHD, self-esteem issues, relationship challenges, life transitions, grief counseling, stress, anger management, parenting difficulties, and coping skills.
She loves her work and life outside of work which includes spending time with her family, enjoying outdoor activities, baking, and nurturing her many plants.
“Shannon is truly amazing! She is wonderful to talk to, i can tell her something that i humiliated about and she instantly puts all fears at ease! Her way of making people comfortable is someone I've never experienced! Highly highly reccomend and am so thankful for her. ”
Kim Kinnaird, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist at Rein Center, an integrative psychiatry practice based in Iowa City, Iowa. She works with patients of all ages.
Dr. Kinnaird earned her Bachelor of Arts in music therapy from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She then earned her Master of Arts in clinical psychology and Doctor of Clinical Psychiatry from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Psychological Service Center in Fresno, California, and her postdoctoral fellowship at Napa State Hospital in Napa, California.
She encourages clients to express themselves in a variety of ways and to think differently about themselves and their thoughts. Doing so can enhance the therapeutic process as well as expand problem-solving skills. As influential psychologist, Dr. Donald Winnicott put it, "It is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self and uses the whole personality."
Dr. Kinnaird particularly enjoys helping those experiencing symptoms of depression and/or anxiety. She deeply believes in the importance of a client's individual freedom and values, as well as the importance of understanding those values in a social context. In her practice, she fosters an environment of trust where clients can safely discuss difficult thoughts and feelings. With this solid foundation in place, she helps patients identify problem patterns and guide them to changes that will make them feel better.
We as humans need relief from feeling separate in our experiences. The simple truth is that for therapy to work you have to feel safe with me (in terms of being honest and open) to allow me into your process. We will be a great fit if you are wanting to look inward and learn to create safety with yourself and if you are open to challenging your discomfort, growing esteem in SELF, and finding healing. Bring your honesty because the plan is for you to integrate what you learn in the session into your life.
I offer a safe space and patience for healing. From 10-plus years of experience with therapy, I have found that we can build a gentler, more tolerant way of residing with conflict and pain. We can also re-learn practices that get us back to fully living rather than feeling like we are stuck in our trauma. I work with individuals and couples struggling with strong self-critical narratives, some need help with self-harm (cutting, binge/purge cycles, addictions), others with difficulty regulating emotions, as well as relational infidelity and healing thereafter. Most of us have internal conflicts that are difficult to sort out and difficult to understand how to navigate.
Areas of expertise include Women’s and Men’s issues, Couples/ Family/Individual therapy (LGBTQ inclusive in all categories of therapy). Trauma in many forms, Depression and anxiety, ADHD, Bipolar disorder, acute stress and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and personality disorders. I am well versed in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and Internal Family Systems and find these approaches to be incredibly powerful for unleashing the full potential of one's being.
Tonya Boots, LMHC, is a licensed mental health counselor at Rein Center, an integrative psychiatry practice based in Iowa City, Iowa. Tonya decided to become a therapist because she enjoys helping people and has a natural ability to listen and empathize with others.
Tonya graduated with her bachelor's degree from St. Ambrose University and earned her master's degree in clinical mental health counseling at Loyola University Chicago.
During her studies, she assisted with published research projects that addressed social justice issues and became very passionate about helping adolescents who experienced chronic and big "T" traumas. She completed her clinical training at an inpatient psychiatric hospital in Chicago that specialized in treating PTSD. After graduating from Loyola, she worked at an adolescent group home in Indianapolis, where she gained valuable experience with crisis de-escalation and helping children and families involved in the welfare system. Many of her early experiences pushed her toward utilizing somatic psychotherapy interventions such as yoga, meditation, guided imagery, and deep breathing to effectively release tension and stress in the body caused by trauma. Inviting her clients to move intuitively and genuinely do what feels good tends to increase awareness of their feelings and bodily sensations and gain a sense of control and ownership over their physical bodies.
Thomas Mack, PhD, is a licensed psychologist at the Rein Center, an integrative psychiatry practice based in Iowa City, Iowa.
He is a licensed clinical psychologist with a passion for mind-body wellness. Clinically, Dr. Mack is especially interested in working with patients experiencing anxiety, depression, learning differences, and relationship issues. He also enjoys teaching and will be offering mindfulness meditation in a group setting to help you tackle academic anxiety, performance anxiety, general anxiety, and mood concerns.
Dr. Mack enjoys working with a wide range of ages and concerns. Although he specializes in working with adolescents and young adults, he also enjoys working with adults and families.
His approach to individual therapy is integrative, but he is heavily influenced by mind-body, psychodynamic, and systems theories. In practice, this means Dr. Mack strives to understand your difficulties, concerns, and questions as you see them and work hard to move you toward your goals in a safe, collaborative, and egalitarian environment.
Christina Couch, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist practicing at Rein Center, an integrativepsychiatry practice based in Iowa City, Iowa.
She has been a clinical psychologist for 23 years, and her focus has been on working with women with depression, anxiety, trauma, life transition issues, relationship issues, and individuals of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Dr. Couch earned her Bachelor of Arts from Luther College, where she majored in psychology and business. She then earned a Master of Arts degree in rehabilitative counseling from the University of Iowa before earning a Master of Arts in clinical psychology and a Doctor of Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology.
Dr. Couch uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the therapeutic relationship to assist clients with improving their mental health, making positive changes, healing, and striving to be their most authentic selves. She values the mind-body-spiritual connection and incorporates this into her practice. She is a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator (CDWF) trained in the work/research of Brene Brown, PhD. Her pronouns are she, her, and hers.
“Dr. Couch is an amazing psychologist .
I have met with her one time and felt comfortable expressing my feelings and goals to work on. This is a chance to live my life.”
Stanley Mathew, MD, is an exceptional pain medicine specialist and physiatrist. Dr. Mathew provides services at American Rehabilitation Medicine in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Dubuque, Iowa, for patients who have chronic pain conditions that affect the back and neck, joints, as well as migraines.
Dr. Mathew is a native of New York, where he spent 10 years as medical director of St. Luke’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He began his career studying for a medical degree at the Medical University of Lublin in Poland. In 2006, Dr. Mathew took up an internship at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center Department of Internal Medicine in New York City. He then moved on to New York Medical College in Valhalla for his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation. In his final year, Dr. Mathew served as chief resident.
Dr. Mathew holds board certifications from the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the American Board of Disability Analysts, and the American Board of Pain Medicine. Among his particular interests are pain management, spinal and musculoskeletal medicine, spasticity management, electrodiagnostics, and both pre and post-operative management of orthopedic and neurosurgical patients.
In his own words, Dr. Mathew believes, “Humans are too complex to relegate diagnosis and treatment solely to ‘processes.’ Great physicians always apply an artist’s sensibility. Diagnosis requires an artist’s eye, a writer’s ear for dialogue, and a sense of composition.”
