"Healing our inner landscape brings harmony to the surface."
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps you become aware of your negative thinking and limiting beliefs about yourself. Your thoughts act as building blocks for your life. If you are thinking negatively, then these thoughts continue to attract negativity to you. As you become aware of your negative thinking, you realize that this type of thinking is at the root of your distress. By continuing to think negative thoughts you actually strengthen these thoughts into beliefs about yourself. Negative thoughts such as, "I am not worthy", "I can't get what I want', "I can't succeed", or "I am not lovable" can play in the background of your mind and erode your self-esteem. By changing your thinking in a positive way, you can change your life. This change can turn challenging situations into opportunities for growth to deal with your life more effectively.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps you become aware of your negative thinking and limiting beliefs about yourself. Your thoughts act as building blocks for your life. If you are thinking negatively, then these thoughts continue to attract negativity to you. As you become aware of your negative thinking, you realize that this type of thinking is at the root of your distress. By continuing to think negative thoughts you actually strengthen these thoughts into beliefs about yourself. Negative thoughts such as, "I am not worthy", "I can't get what I want', "I can't succeed", or "I am not lovable" can play in the background of your mind and erode your self-esteem. By changing your thinking in a positive way, you can change your life. This change can turn challenging situations into opportunities for growth to deal with your life more effectively.
Energy Psychology
Energy Psychology is an effective field of psychotherapy that incorporates energy psychology techniques along with cognitive and behavioral therapies. This combination of therapies help release the emotions that have been repressed as a result of a situation that was distressing to you. Instead of fully releasing the emotions you experienced during or after a trauma, you hold onto these emotions and this emotional energy gets internalized.
When you experience an upset, trauma, accident, abuse, physical condition, etc, and it is not properly resolved, this internalized energy is at the root of your continued physical/emotional distress or health condition. You can have physical symptoms such as pain, tightness, constriction, anxiety or physical disease. You can also experience emotional states such as anger, depression, grief, guilt, etc. Because this energy has not been resolved, it acts like a magnet continuing to draw the same types of situations to you, keeping you "stuck" in unproductive misery and not able to move forward. More and more scientific studies are showing the efficacy of Energy Psychology and its success with many common emotional, psychological and physical conditions. Research.
Energy Psychology is an effective field of psychotherapy that incorporates energy psychology techniques along with cognitive and behavioral therapies. This combination of therapies help release the emotions that have been repressed as a result of a situation that was distressing to you. Instead of fully releasing the emotions you experienced during or after a trauma, you hold onto these emotions and this emotional energy gets internalized.
When you experience an upset, trauma, accident, abuse, physical condition, etc, and it is not properly resolved, this internalized energy is at the root of your continued physical/emotional distress or health condition. You can have physical symptoms such as pain, tightness, constriction, anxiety or physical disease. You can also experience emotional states such as anger, depression, grief, guilt, etc. Because this energy has not been resolved, it acts like a magnet continuing to draw the same types of situations to you, keeping you "stuck" in unproductive misery and not able to move forward. More and more scientific studies are showing the efficacy of Energy Psychology and its success with many common emotional, psychological and physical conditions. Research.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), orTapping
Emotional Freedom Technique or Tapping offers powerful results to help you deal with physical, emotional, mental and performance issues. When there are unresolved issues in your life, these issues can manifest as emotional and physical pain. When emotions are not properly processed during or after a stressful situation, they become internalized and block the flow of your body’s vital force, causing pain and distress in many forms. Unresolved issues are stored in the different memory centers such as emotional memory, cognitive memory, somatic/kinesthetic memory, visual memory, etc. These unresolved emotions are at the very core of why you "feel stuck" and unable to move ahead in your life. Using EFT and other Energy Psychology techniques helps to release this internalized energy and free you from the past distress.
Emotional stress can negatively impact the natural healing process of the human body. EFT can address the emotional upset and self-critical thinking that can plague your life. Thoughts such as "I feel out of control", "I don't deserve", are examples of internalized beliefs that contribute to your suffering. Begin healing and start enjoying life again as your put the distress of the past behind you.
Emotional Freedom Technique or Tapping offers powerful results to help you deal with physical, emotional, mental and performance issues. When there are unresolved issues in your life, these issues can manifest as emotional and physical pain. When emotions are not properly processed during or after a stressful situation, they become internalized and block the flow of your body’s vital force, causing pain and distress in many forms. Unresolved issues are stored in the different memory centers such as emotional memory, cognitive memory, somatic/kinesthetic memory, visual memory, etc. These unresolved emotions are at the very core of why you "feel stuck" and unable to move ahead in your life. Using EFT and other Energy Psychology techniques helps to release this internalized energy and free you from the past distress.
Emotional stress can negatively impact the natural healing process of the human body. EFT can address the emotional upset and self-critical thinking that can plague your life. Thoughts such as "I feel out of control", "I don't deserve", are examples of internalized beliefs that contribute to your suffering. Begin healing and start enjoying life again as your put the distress of the past behind you.
Brainspotting
Brainspotting is a powerful method that works by releasing the unfinished business in your life. When you have a trauma or distressful experiences, you can develop thoughts about that trauma and your life that affect you long after the trauma happened. Brainspotting addresses the trauma and promotes the processing, integrating and healing activity within your mind and body. It works to relax the amygdala, the “inner alarm” part of the brain that is triggered by traumatic and upsetting memories. As your past distress is released, you feel relaxed and calmer. It also helps you let go and release the emotion that has been causing your upset.
As you heal the past you can gain a sense of freedom from the pain, emotional or physical. It helps to clear your old limiting thoughts and beliefs, calms your mind and can promote healing within the body. It can help you release your feeling of being powerless to change your life, relationships or a negative behavior that is troubling you.
Brainspotting engages you in a safe and trusting relationship where you feel heard, accepted and understood. It helps address the distressful situation. It can also strengthen a positive attribute (peace, joy, etc.) that you want to improve or enhance in your life. Through processing your distress, the underlying trauma, bodily stress, and negative beliefs are released. Most of my clients are amazed at the inner calm and relief they experience during this process. Through releasing your past negative experiences, you can free your past and begin life anew.
Brainspotting is a powerful method that works by releasing the unfinished business in your life. When you have a trauma or distressful experiences, you can develop thoughts about that trauma and your life that affect you long after the trauma happened. Brainspotting addresses the trauma and promotes the processing, integrating and healing activity within your mind and body. It works to relax the amygdala, the “inner alarm” part of the brain that is triggered by traumatic and upsetting memories. As your past distress is released, you feel relaxed and calmer. It also helps you let go and release the emotion that has been causing your upset.
As you heal the past you can gain a sense of freedom from the pain, emotional or physical. It helps to clear your old limiting thoughts and beliefs, calms your mind and can promote healing within the body. It can help you release your feeling of being powerless to change your life, relationships or a negative behavior that is troubling you.
Brainspotting engages you in a safe and trusting relationship where you feel heard, accepted and understood. It helps address the distressful situation. It can also strengthen a positive attribute (peace, joy, etc.) that you want to improve or enhance in your life. Through processing your distress, the underlying trauma, bodily stress, and negative beliefs are released. Most of my clients are amazed at the inner calm and relief they experience during this process. Through releasing your past negative experiences, you can free your past and begin life anew.
EMDR: A Breakthrough Therapy for PTSD, Anxiety, Panic Attacks and More
If you are experiencing prolonged anxiety and other symptoms that do not seem to be improving, you may be suffering the long-term effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). These symptoms can make your life more difficult than before the trauma and contribute to your loss of normal functioning. For instance, since the trauma you may have more trouble concentrating or you are more easily distracted than you were before. Some people may become easily angered, have outbursts of anger or their anger is out of proportion to the situation that is currently being experienced. Other PTSD symptoms may cause irritability, trouble sleeping, flashbacks, nightmares, or a general feeling of anxiety.
I have been working with PTSD and anxiety for over 15 years, and have found tremendous benefit in using EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and other therapies to successfully help clients overcome the effects of PTSD and other forms of anxiety.
EMDR is a type of treatment that helps to diffuse the lasting or pervasive impact of traumatic experiences. Processing the upset helps you to release the stored aspects of the trauma that are either conscious or unconscious. These stored memories can lie at the root of your unexplained anxiety and restlessness.
PTSD is a natural emotional reaction to an abnormal situation that has been both shocking and disturbing. These situations can be related to such experiences as interpersonal conflict, childhood or adult abuse, bereavement, business failure, hospital trauma, accidents, marital/relationship disharmony, and survivors (assault, disaster, combat service, acts of violence and rape). Because of the shock to the nervous system, an underlying anxiety persists and needs to be resolved, so that you can be freed from the symptoms associated with the traumatic event.
Scientific research has shown that EMDR is a highly effective method to address PTSD. In addition, many other conditions have dramatically improved through the use of this method such as phobias, panic attacks, stress disorders, disturbing memories, physical pain, anger, grief, guilt, anxiety disorders, addictions, depression, self-esteem, limiting beliefs and substance abuse and more.
PTSD Symptoms:
· Disturbing Memories
· Nightmares
· Irritability
· Anger Outbursts
· Avoidance Behavior
· Difficulty Concentrating
· Exaggerated Startle Response
· Repeating Thoughts
· Flashbacks
· Acute Stress
· Hyperalert/ Hypervigilance
· Sleep Disturbance
· Dissociative Symptoms
· Addictions/Substance Abuse
· Powerlessness
· Anxiety About Future Recurrence of Similar Situations
· Somatic Symptoms (headaches, digestive upset, dizziness, immune problems, chest pain)
If you are experiencing prolonged anxiety and other symptoms that do not seem to be improving, you may be suffering the long-term effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). These symptoms can make your life more difficult than before the trauma and contribute to your loss of normal functioning. For instance, since the trauma you may have more trouble concentrating or you are more easily distracted than you were before. Some people may become easily angered, have outbursts of anger or their anger is out of proportion to the situation that is currently being experienced. Other PTSD symptoms may cause irritability, trouble sleeping, flashbacks, nightmares, or a general feeling of anxiety.
I have been working with PTSD and anxiety for over 15 years, and have found tremendous benefit in using EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and other therapies to successfully help clients overcome the effects of PTSD and other forms of anxiety.
EMDR is a type of treatment that helps to diffuse the lasting or pervasive impact of traumatic experiences. Processing the upset helps you to release the stored aspects of the trauma that are either conscious or unconscious. These stored memories can lie at the root of your unexplained anxiety and restlessness.
PTSD is a natural emotional reaction to an abnormal situation that has been both shocking and disturbing. These situations can be related to such experiences as interpersonal conflict, childhood or adult abuse, bereavement, business failure, hospital trauma, accidents, marital/relationship disharmony, and survivors (assault, disaster, combat service, acts of violence and rape). Because of the shock to the nervous system, an underlying anxiety persists and needs to be resolved, so that you can be freed from the symptoms associated with the traumatic event.
Scientific research has shown that EMDR is a highly effective method to address PTSD. In addition, many other conditions have dramatically improved through the use of this method such as phobias, panic attacks, stress disorders, disturbing memories, physical pain, anger, grief, guilt, anxiety disorders, addictions, depression, self-esteem, limiting beliefs and substance abuse and more.
PTSD Symptoms:
· Disturbing Memories
· Nightmares
· Irritability
· Anger Outbursts
· Avoidance Behavior
· Difficulty Concentrating
· Exaggerated Startle Response
· Repeating Thoughts
· Flashbacks
· Acute Stress
· Hyperalert/ Hypervigilance
· Sleep Disturbance
· Dissociative Symptoms
· Addictions/Substance Abuse
· Powerlessness
· Anxiety About Future Recurrence of Similar Situations
· Somatic Symptoms (headaches, digestive upset, dizziness, immune problems, chest pain)
Michele Bertini, PhD, LPC, NCC
5850 Ellsworth Avenue, Suite 210
412.365.2020
5850 Ellsworth Avenue, Suite 210
412.365.2020
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