Below you will find more information about the Mental Health Counseling Services Pneuma offers
Pneuma Counseling & Neurofeedback offers state-of-the-art approaches to correcting psychological impairments including EMDR, Lifespan Integration, and trauma-informed therapies that result in changes not seen with “talk-therapy” alone.
Trauma Recovery
The aftermath of experiencing, witnessing, or learning about a traumatic event can be exceptionally difficult to navigate. Certain events can be overwhelmingly taxing on our mental health and often the stressors do not go away for months or years to come. People are unique, so it makes sense that the.......
way each of us handles trauma is unique. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is very treatable. Unpacking any traumatic events from our lives with a compassionate, empathetic counseling professional is a responsible choice, as many after-effects are not understood intuitively.
Additionally, both Neurofeedback and Lifespan Integration therapies have been shown to significantly reduce symptoms associated with PTSD and other trauma repercussions.
LifeSpan Integration
Pneuma Counseling & Neurofeedback also offers a therapeutic intervention called Lifespan Integration therapy. Lifespan Integration is a gentle, body-based therapeutic method, which heals without re-traumatizing. In 2003, Peggy Pace published the first edition of her book, Lifespan Integration:..
Connecting Ego States through Time. In her book Pace describes the new therapeutic method, which she developed through her work with her clients. Pace originally designed Lifespan Integration therapy for adult survivors of childhood abuse or neglect. She soon found that LI therapy facilitates rapid healing in people of all ages, and is effective with a wide range of therapeutic issues. Since 2004, Pace has been training therapists throughout the US and Western Europe. At the present time (2015), more than 2000 therapists worldwide have been trained in Lifespan Integration. Lifespan Integration relies on the innate ability of the body-mind to heal itself. LI is body-based, and combines active imagination, the juxtaposition of ego states in time, and a visual time line of memories to facilitate neural integration and rapid healing. During the integrating phase of the protocol, the client “views” a memory image for each year of his or her life. The success of this ‘re-wiring’ depends on the internal coherence of the administering therapist in the same way that the attachment outcome of an infant depends on the mother’s ability to attune to her child and to self-regulate. After LI therapy, people find themselves spontaneously reacting to current stressors in more age appropriate ways. Clients who begin LI therapy with memory gaps are eventually able to connect the pieces of their lives into a coherent whole. Clients who have completed Lifespan Integration therapy report that they feel better about life, are more self-accepting, and are better able to enjoy their intimate relationships. Learn more by visiting LifespanIntegration.com. The Lifespan Integration technique causes memories to surface spontaneously, and because of how memories are held neurologically, each memory which surfaces is related to the emotional theme or issue being targeted. The resulting panoramic view of the client’s life gives the client new insights about lifelong patterns resultant from the past trauma. Lifespan Integration is also very effective in the healing of various attachment disorders. This is accomplished through imaginably ‘re-writing’ and ‘re-living’ the early conditions, and integrating the new (positive) feeling states which are generated in the client-therapist dyad.
Depression, Grief & Anxiety Recovery
Depression, Grief or Anxiety can be a very subtle and gradual illnesses that progresses over time. Sometimes we have no idea why we are suddenly sleeping more or less, eating more or less, spending less time with friends and family, crying more frequently or falling behind on basic tasks and ...
responsibilities. These may be triggered by many different experiences, and are common issues with which many peoples are struggling at this moment. You are not alone, and speaking with a professional can be the first step toward feeling better. Neurofeedback is a powerful tool that profoundly impacts these issues.
What is EMDR?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy approach designed for working with distressing or traumatic memories. The theory behind EMDR is that many psychological difficulties are the result of distressing life experiences which have not been stored in memory properly...
and are said to be unprocessed or blocked. These traumatic memories may need some help to become processed, and EMDR is one way to do this.
Sexual Abuse Recovery and Counseling
Statistics report that 1 in 5 girls, and 1 in 20 boys have experienced sexual abuse. It can be a tremendously difficult topic to think about, much less discuss in therapy and counseling. A person's instinctive response is to burry the act as far down as possible. Many people do not recall the event ...
until later in life, and some learn to dissociate in various ways when reminders of the abuse are experienced. Unfortunately, it is impossible to completely rid ourselves of the issues without woking through them in a safe, loving environment. The pain from sexual abuse can be so unbearable that the human brain and body do everything possible to avoid it, but when counseling clients find themselves in a safe place, where they are ready to uproot the issues that have caused them grief, anger, and pain and bravely address all kinds of interpersonal and relational issues that have resulted from being a victim of sexual abuse, amazing transformations take place and clients are freed of the chains that have bound them tightly for (sometimes) years. It is not your fault in any way. No child, adolescent or adult should ever be violated sexually for any reason whatsoever. There is tremendous hope. Walking Mandeville clients through a curriculum called “Surviving the Secret” helps begin to unpack the complexities effecting his or her life. It is a tangible and liberating way to begin the journey to freedom!
Teens
Let's face it, the teen years can be challenging for everyone. An objective perspective can be priceless when navigating through these wonder years! You are the expert on your teen, so helping you to understand how to respond to the nuances of teenage behavior can make all the difference in your ...
relationship with your teen, as well as his or her success later in life. Parenting is an emotional experience, and it is difficult to parent out of a tested, educated approach rather than of an emotional or intuitive approach. Having a counselor to mediate the patterns and create new pathways for relating is a valuable and enriching experience.
Neurofeedback
Pneuma clinicians administer Neurofeedback using the latest software and equipment including the Othmer approach, as well as the NeurOptimal® Systems. Pneuma has achieved over 200 hours of professional neurofeedback training and over 3000 client hours of experience. Neurofeedback has ...
shown significant improvements in clients with PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, ADD, Sleep Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Learning Disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, stoke and seizure disorders, attachment issues, dissociative disorders and tons of other mental health issues.