Brain-Based Therapy
What is Brain Based Therapy?
Brain-based therapy is particularly helpful for trauma-related issues, as it can often avoid the need for the client to have to talk about the trauma story itself. It can also be useful for treating anxiety, depression, attachment issues, and PTSD.
Brain-based therapy incorporates knowledge from neuroscience research, and combines this knowledge with well-known aspects of attachment theory to help clients rewire their brains so as to improve their moods and effectively change their behaviors.
The brain-based perspective recognizes that the brain has ‘plasticity’ (often termed as “neuroplasticity’). Neuroplasticity refers to the amazing ability of our brains to change in response to the environment. When we learn new information and master new skills, we are adapting and changing our brains
Hypnotherapy
Clinical hypnosis is NOT like the stage performances you might see in magic shows where someone uses a medallion to get sleepy. Clinical hypnotherapy and neurolinguistic programming (NLP) are empirically based modalities that have been effectively used and clinically researched for decades. As individuals, we transition between conscious and subconscious states around 80% of our day (e.g., highway trance). Hypnotherapy and NLP seeks to tap into the subconscious while clients are in a relaxed and focused state of mind. This process bypasses influencing negative false beliefs of the mind and attempts to develop emotional and cognitive congruence.
It is important to note that a couple of sessions beyond the initial session are generally needed in this process.
Brain-Spotting
“All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small ticking time bombs—they are illnesses in incubation.”
- Marilyn Van M. Derbur
Brain-based therapy is the fastest-growing area in the field of psychological health because it has proven that it can immediately address issues that talk therapy can take years to heal” (Grand, 2013). I am trained in Brain Spotting, phase 1. Brain spotting allows the counsellor access to both brain and body processes in order to bypass the conscious, neocortical thinking to access the deeper, subcortical emotional and body-based parts of the brain. BSP is an effective form of treatment for a variety of mental health concerns and works beautifully with children, teenagers, and adults.
Brain Working Recurisve Therapy (BWRT)
Brain Working Recursive Therapy uses natural psychological processes to recondition neural pathways in the brain that lead to unwanted behaviour. BWRT is a protocol between the therapist and client and involves a talking process to stopping and rerouting the brain’s natural response to anything traumatic or not properly understood and can prevent outward symptoms of conditions relating to low moods, excessive worry, phobias and big overwhelming events.
Our Brain-Based Therapists:
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Cristine Seidell
Hypnotherapy
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Abby Doubell
Brain-spotting, BWRT, & Hypnotherapy
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Monica Van Deventer
Brain-spotting
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Kiki Leonard
Brain-spotting