Family Solutions Therapy

When you use bilateral modulation your fight and flight brain slows down allowing you to be more aware and less reactive. During therapy, this tool can help you explore and make a new story about the pain that has impacted you the most in therapy sessions. You can also use this in everyday life with your own Brain-Sculpt pulses or doing self-modulation.

How using Alpha-Stim can increase results during a therapy session. Alpha waves are correlated with relaxation. By using this tool during sessions you may be able to be more present and anxiety do less of the talking.

A traumatic event is an incident that causes physical, emotional, spiritual, or psychological harm. The person experiencing the distressing event may feel threatened, anxious, or frightened as a result. The event poses a threat of serious injury or death to oneself or others and elicits feelings of intense fear, helplessness, or horror. Bessel van der Kolk notes that trauma is specifically an event that overwhelms the central nervous system, altering the way we process and recall memories. “Trauma is not the story of something that happened back then," he adds. "It's the current imprint of that pain, horror, and fear living inside people.” (The Body Keeps the Score) Trauma is the response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms an individual's ability to cope, causes feelings of helplessness, diminishes their sense of self and their ability to feel the full range of emotions and experiences. The traumatic event causes damage or injury to the psyche and may result in challenges in functioning or coping normally after the event. The three main types of trauma are acute, chronic, or complex. 1) Acute trauma results from a single incident, for example, a car accident. 2) Chronic trauma is repeated and prolonged such as domestic violence, physical or sexual abuse, or growing up as a child of an alcoholic or addict. 3) Complex trauma is exposure to varied and multiple traumatic events, often of an invasive, interpersonal nature. Use the link below to access the handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z0d0ssxsjliIZ2HPuNNb58O11J5G0qLN/view?usp=sharing

How we fight matters. Are you both an escalator? Does one shut down and avoid? Do you complain a lot? Do you escalate quickly? Our style of fighting in relationships often is rooted in our adult attachment style. Attachment theory helps us understand our needs that drive our emotions. EFT therapy helps us repair hurt and learn to trust. When we have an insecure attachment we react to others in a way that develops into our fighting style. This video teaches us how to understand our fighting style and why that matters.

This is part two of the nine keys to a sober life. We review 5) treat the whole person, 6) know how your brain works, 7) learn how to have fun again, 8) have a written action plan, and 9) family therapy works!

“Awesome sauce couples and individual therapy. Let's work to help you heal and rebuild trust. Relationships should not suck. ”

The Nine Keys that lead to a sober lifestyle staying sober These nine keys are empirically based on the research and are drawn from effective clinical practice. They show how a 12 step program can dovetail into effective approaches.

How to use hiking and observations to slow down your reactive mind and start to zoom out and see your emotions and experiences from a healthier place.