Specialties

 
 
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Somatic experiencing

Somatic Experiencing, or SE, is a body-oriented trauma modality that intends to increase the capacity to tolerate a broader range of emotional experience while engaging physical systems, through felt-sense awareness, to process and direct incomplete fight/flight responses and re-establish social engagement.

 
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EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a simple but efficient trauma focused therapy using bilateral stimulation (BLS) – tapping, auditory tones, or eye movements – to accelerate the brain’s capacity to process and heal traumatic memories in the context of a safe environment.  EMDR assists the brain in forming new associations between the traumatic memory and more adaptive memories or information. These new associations result in complete information processing, new learning, elimination of emotional distress, and the development of cognitive insights about the memories.

 
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Accelerated Resolution therapy

Accelerated Resolution Therapy, or ART, is a trauma specific therapeutic modality that facilitates the accessing and processing of traumatic memories using bilateral stimulation, typically through eye movements.  Using a technique called voluntary memory/image replacement, ART helps the brain to adjust how disturbing memories are stored in the brain, so these images stop triggering intense emotional and physical reactions. This therapy is designed to reduce or even totally remove physiological responses linked with traumatic memories.

 

INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS

Internal Family Systems, or IFS, is a trauma-focused approach to psychotherapy that defines and addresses multiple internal sub-parts (or “families”) of self within each person’s mental system.  Often the internal parts are in conflict with one another and with the person’s core Self. IFS focuses on healing the wounded parts and restoring mental balance and harmony by changing the dynamics that create discord among the internal parts of self.

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SAFE AND SOUND PROTOCOL

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Safe and Sound Protocol or SSP is a sound protocol that provides a neuroplatform of safety for patient’s process and is used as a preparatory tool, during treatment in order to kindle/ help patients stay within their “window of tolerance” as they advance in their healing process. By actively attending to filtered music the middle ear muscles are challenged to contract to improve the ability to process human speech and dampen low frequency sounds associated with predators (threat) with the goal of decreasing sound sensitivity and activating neural circuits that assist in titrated down regulation of patient's chronically overly activated nervous system and increased ability to self-regulate.

 

Post Induction Therapy (PIT)

Based on Pia Mellody’s Overview of Developmental Immaturity Issues model, PIT treats childhood trauma that leads to problem behaviors in adulthood, including problems with codependency and addiction issues. PIT utilizes various therapeutic techniques, including experiential therapy, to directly address unresolved childhood trauma and allow individuals to heal and move forward.