Local Lifestyle & Wellness Resources
Case Management
Case Management- Virtual meetings with our Care Navigation Manager to help those affected by epilepsy live well with seizures. These meetings are used to identify struggles, provide updates, and identify specific resources and solutions to concerns regarding epilepsy.
Preferred Provider Network
The goal of the Preferred Provider Network is to ensure all individuals living with epilepsy and seizure disorders have access to quality, affordable mental health care so that not another moment is lost to seizures.
Our Preferred Provider Network trains mental health clinicians to work effectively with people living with epilepsy and seizures.
The Foundation keeps a database of these therapists and matches clients with a therapist upon request. The Foundation also provides reimbursement of up to $30 per session for the first 8 sessions.
Email info@epilepsycowy.org for more information.
PACES
This FREE 8-week virtual skill-building group is for adults with epilepsy. Learn how to improve your quality of life, gain support, and feel better. This program focuses on:
- Education about seizure types and available treatments, the influence of epilepsy on mood, stress, and cognition, and strategies for a healthy lifestyle,
- Training and practice using specific strategies to cope with stress and the blues, and
- Personalized goal-setting and support to help you articulate and pursue important life changes.
Seize Your Strength
Seize Your Strength is a mental fitness group coaching program designed by and for people living with epilepsy.
This 6-week group coaching program that covers 4 modules including owning your thoughts and diagnosis, properly engaging your stress, enhancing your relationships, and setting and achieving goals.
Interested in PACES or Seize Your Strength? Fill out our interest form.
Wellness & Epilepsy Toolkit
We all need to take care of ourselves — to manage individual health problems and get or stay healthy and happy. This toolkit highlights and explains the the significance of each of the eight dimensions of wellness and the importance of making choices that lead toward a healthy and fulfilling life. This toolkit is provided by the Epilepsy Foundation of America and was created in 2019 by the Wellness Institute.
Download Individual Factsheets from the Wellness Toolkit
Wellness Overview
Emotional Health
Diet and Nutrition
Physical Activity
Sleep
Stress Management
Social Relationships
Education and Employment
Independent Living
Wellness for Caregivers
Mental Health Video Resources
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Mental Health Issues and Epilepsy-
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Wellness Tools and Techniques –
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Wellness is Connecting –
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Eight Dimensions of the Wellness Wheel-
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Comorbidities in Epilepsy –