Presenter: Tawna Loveless, AssistantNeurofeedbackProgram Director &Technician
Being in love with health and well-being from the time I was a teenager, I believe that the health of a person is not based on one thing, but on the balance of all things in an individual’s life. As a lifelong learner of mental, physical, and spiritual health you will find me listening to a new book ingesting knowledge, and being deeply passionate about the human experience.
I pursued my bachelor’s degree in Community Health Education as a way to achieve my goals to help others achieve healthy lives. After my degree, I pursued training in Neurofeedback as an Othmer Method Technician using Infra-Low Frequencies to retrain and exercise the brain to gain greater balance and control over itself. I am also double-trained and experienced in both the Alpha-Theta and Synchrony modalities, all using the Cygnet software system. I have extensive experience using neurofeedback training for many concerns including but not limited to; addiction, ADHD, anxiety, autism, behavioral problems, bipolar disorder, depression, mood disorders, headaches/migraines, seizures, impulsivity, low self-esteem, OCD, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, sensory disorders, and sleep problems.
I have been working as a Neurofeedback Technician for almost 5 years now, treating over 4000 Clients in hour-to-hour sessions. I have built an extensive 50-hour Neurofeedback training course with slides and training materials. Taught over 5 of these Neurofeedback courses to dozens of clinicians. I built an extensive symptoms evaluation brain chart with a matching symptoms evaluation packet.
It is amazing and rewarding to witness my clients take on the challenges of their situations and their personal limitations and break their own barriers and heal to degrees they didn’t know they could.
Presentation: Neurofeedback- What it is and What it can treat
Neurofeedback, what is it, how to understand it on a more technical level, and how to explain it.
Caro Kellough, CMHC, has over a decade of backpacking and guiding experience. After receiving her masters in clinical mental health counseling at Lesley University in Cambridge Massachusetts, Caro moved out west to forge a new path that would include mental wellness, the outdoors, and social justice. She is a fully licensed mental health counselor with a specialization in Trauma and Holistic Mental Health. She recently completed a 200 hour yoga teacher training and is certified to teach trauma informed yoga. As a wilderness therapist and guide, Caro has worked for various guiding companies including Outward Bound and Andrew Skurka Adventures and has logged over 300 field days. She uses an eclectic set of clinical skills but focuses predominately on IFS, narrative therapy, and Structural Family Systems.
Presentation Description: Trauma Processing in the Wild- Body Centered Work, Wilderness Metaphor, and Group Dynamics in treating Mood Disorders and (C)PTSD
This presentation will give participants an introduction to wilderness based therapy and will encourage them to think about how they can adapt their current practices to a wilderness setting. We will go over how wilderness metaphor can be used in conjunction with narrative therapy, bi-lateral stimulation, and how group dynamics in wilderness groups can mirror interpersonal relationship dynamics. We will use some experiential modeling to show how you can bring the wilderness into your office and will address things like access to care and gatekeeping in the outdoors.
Cassidy DuHadway, LCSW is a highly sought after therapist and trainer for her understanding and ability to normalize the human experience and help humans through their healing process. She specializes in trauma, early-childhood wounds, and training therapists to become amazing therapists. Cassidy specializes in helping therapists understand and see each of their clients while also utilizing their skills in a way that supports their clients through healing. She has been a therapist since 2009 and has been in the mental health field for 17 years. Cassidy is the Owner and CEO of Purple Sky Counseling and is an EMDR Approved Trainer and Consultant.
Presentation: Religious and Spiritual Trauma
Throughout Childhood we receive messages and experiences that shape our lives. During this presentation we are going to explore how Religious and Spiritual experiences, messaging and systems can lead to Trauma. This leaves a person struggling with love, worth and belonging or a never-ending sense of Not Enoughness.
Liliam Llanos is a certified NeuroCoach who brings together mindfulness techniques and brain research-based tools to show her clients how to overcome trauma, increase their self-esteem, and create greater balance, growth and a meaningful life. Liliam is also committed to bringing awareness and integration of science-based strategies to counselors, coaches, and holistic practitioners. She is fluent in both English and Spanish and works with clients worldwide.
Presentation: Optimizing Brain Network Function to Promote Psychological Health
This is a presentation on some of the newest discoveries showing properties of each of the three key brain networks, the Default Mode Network, the Salience Network, and the Executive Network along with the most effective strategies to help clients learn how to:
optimize brain function to increase psychological health and improve social relationships
reduce anxiety and depression by balancing the brain networks
stay focused and highly motivated to achieve goals
Ellen Byrne has been in private practice since 1995, offering therapeutic bodywork and body-based trauma resolution. She is a Body-Mind Centering Somatic Educator (2002), a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (2004), a Master Level NARM Informed Practitioner (2016), and has a Master’s in Counseling from Palo Alto University (2021).
In addition to her private practice, Ellen worked at the Menlo Park-based Camden Treatment Center, a private intensive outpatient facility for dual-diagnosis patients from 2017-2021. Camden provides comprehensive services and recognizes the role of Complex Trauma in mental health and addictive disorders. Ellen actively collaborated with the medical and clinical teams in creating and carrying out treatment programs for patients, lending her particular trauma-informed and body-based perspective.
As part of her clinical practicum work for her Master's degree, she co-led weekly grief groups in 2020 – 2021 for the recognized Bill Wilson Centre for Living with Dying in San Jose. Ellen co-facilitated groups for Loss of Partner and Loss of Child, sometimes providing additional private counseling for group members. Ellen recently relocated to Utah and is preparing to open her practice in the Park City area, offering NARM-informed trauma resolution and consultation. Therapists and bodyworkers seek her guidance, particularly in practice building, Scope of Practice, and becoming trauma-informed.
Alex White, CMHC
Alex White, CMHC, approaches his clinical work with more than 10 years of professional experience in residential, wilderness, and community-based treatment settings. As a private practitioner and staff therapist at the University of Utah Counseling Center, Alex approaches each session with a trauma-focused lens informed by specialization in the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM). Founded in somatic, relational, and attachment frameworks, this integrative approach focuses on the resolution of complex and developmental trauma and aligns closely with Alex’s belief in the power of the therapeutic alliance as a modality for healing. He recently completed the NARM Masters training and is entering a role as TA with the NARM Training Institute and is thrilled to be sharing on a topic of such significance, both personally and professionally, for him.
Alex is also passionate about the integration of therapeutic work with the natural world. He is credentialed as a Certified Clinical Adventure Therapist and specialized in Adventure-Based Psychotherapy during his graduate education at Prescott College. In collaboration with the Westminster College counseling program, Alex is developing a postgraduate adventure therapy certificate to begin in Spring, 2024.
Brian Curtis, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and founder of Honest Sleep, LLC, a telehealth-based clinical practice specializing in the assessment and treatment of chronic insomnia and nightmare disorder. Dr. Curtis received a master’s in neuroscience and doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Utah. He has over 12 years of research experience, has published 11 peer-reviewed scientific publications in some of the world’s top journals in sleep medicine and neuroscience, and is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine. Dr. Curtis’s work includes targeting comorbidsleep disruption for individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and major depression. As sleep disruption is transdiagnostic across most mental health concerns, Dr. Curtis is particularly interested in helping fellow mental health providers increase their competence in the assessment and treatment of sleep-related difficulties with their clients.
Presentation Description:
This presentation is for clinicians who want to increase their competence to assess and treat comorbidsleep disruptions in their clients with trauma-related difficulties. By participating in this presentation, you will gain proficiency in the following:
Describe the functions of sleep, the circadian and homeostatic processes regulating sleep, and how this knowledge informs clinical assessment and treatment.
Describe diagnostic criteria and implement standard assessment measures for clinically relevant sleep-wake disorders including insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea, and nightmare disorder.
Describe the prevalence and consequences of sleep disruptions in clients with posttraumatic stress disorder.
Identify and implement the central components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT) for nightmare disorder, and Exposure, Relaxation and Rescripting Therapy (ERRT) for trauma-related nightmare disorder.
Generate a case conceptualization, individualized treatment plan, and identify when referral to a sleep specialist may be warranted.
Toni Mazzaglia is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with a private practice in Utah and a parent coach with Solutions Parenting Support. She has been in the mental health field for over twenty years, working primarily with adolescents and their families in residential settings dealing with a variety of complex issues. Her focus has been treating attachment trauma, complex and dual diagnoses, complex family systems, and resulting symptoms and challenges. She is trained in EMDR, DBT, and MBSR and is a mindfulness practitioner and teacher. She believes in a mindful and holistic approach to supporting clients in healing what they need and building wellness.
We will discuss various attachment issues related to adoption from a trauma-informed perspective as well as how to empower and support adopted teens in this developmental stage. We will also identify ways that adoptive parents can support healthy development and resiliency in their relationship with their adopted teens.
I blend compassion and creativity with proven attachment-focused and trauma-informed techniques to help foster growth, healing, and change. I value both “top-down” (cognitive and skills-based) approaches and “bottom-up” (physical/emotional/integrative) approaches to therapy. Modalities I utilize include dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RODBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), Othmer-method neurofeedback, internal family systems (IFS), sand tray therapy, Gottman method couples therapy, exposure response prevention (ERP), compassion-focused therapy, and integrative processing technique (IPT).
Together with my clients, I address a host of topics such as stress, self-criticism, depression (including suicidal ideation and non-suicidal self-injury), anxiety, trauma, dissociation, relationship issues, family dynamics, grief/loss, addiction, emotional dysregulation, personality disorders, multicultural issues, communication, LGBTQIA+ issues, ADHD, body image, and more. When I’m not at work, you’ll find me singing with my soul band, exploring the world, trying and sharing new recipes, laughing with friends, reading lots of books, and enjoying nature.
Presentation Overview:
Neurofeedback is one of many modalities and techniques that can be effective in helping clients heal from trauma. Othmer Method Neurofeedback is an effective evidence-based modality that involves brain training techniques that can help alleviate emotional, physical, and neurological instabilities and symptoms. With this modality clinicians and software monitor brain waves and use individualized neurofeedback placements and frequencies to shift the brain towards a more healthy and stable state. This intervention provides a gradual learning feedback process for the brain and nervous system to achieve a more calm, focused, and regulated state which helps individuals better thrive and function in daily life. It also provides stabilization and resourcing for clients to be able to do deeper and more effective work in other therapy modalities.
Join us for a discussion about the many ways that Othmer Method Neurofeedback can help enhance outcomes for professionals and clients.
This presentation is an introduction to belief-focused EMDR. Participants will:
-Understand the adaptive information processing (AIP) model as the cornerstone of EMDR’s approach to psychotherapy.
-Understand EMDR as a comprehensive approach to therapy through an overview of the 8 Phases of EMDR treatment.
-Learn through experiential exercises stabilization skills that can be used for self and clients (calm/secure place, container skills, developing positive/adaptive beliefs about self).
Presenter: Amy Henderson, MSW, LCSW
Amy Henderson, MSW, LCSW, has been in the mental health field for over 15 years. She has been many things, but most recently, she has been a mental health therapist for the past 6 years. Over two years ago, Amy founded Inner Journey Counseling – here, she specializes in providing individual therapy and skills groups to adults and older adults wanting to heal from trauma, especially complex trauma, and grief and loss issues. Her primary and preferred treatment approach is EMDR (eye movement desensitization and re-processing). She also integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS) and DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) into her work with clients. She runs a DBT skills group for adults with her wonderful colleagues where they teach 4 core skills: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. In her free time, Amy likes to daydream about a world where people everywhere are supported in their journey of healing trauma and every human is taught mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness skills. Amy is a native Utahn who currently lives in Salt Lake City and enjoys road cycling, Qi Gong, indoor and outdoor plants, trees and gardens, painting and loving on her two rescue huskies, Marco and Desmond.
This is a presentation on the benefits of Neurofeedback, which is a non-pharmaceutical approach to mental health and trauma. The presenters will cover a wide variety of information under this umbrella including:
-Brief History
-Othmer Method
– client centered model of brain regulation and stabilization
-Training Types
-Infra Low Frequency (Awake State)
-Synchrony (EEG guided mindfulness)
-Alpha-Theta (Deep State)
-Treatment in use of refractory or non-responsive diagnosis and co-morbid conditions
-Application to trauma informed therapeutic settings in correlation to EMDR and compassion fatigue prevention
-Benefits of neurofeedback with addiction recovery
-Limitations of neurofeedback
Presenters:
Danielle Musick, CSW
If you want to curate health, joy, and hope in your life, there are many tools that can help you achieve that goal. Health comes through engaging emotionally, physically and socially in your life. It takes great courage to ask for help but it is the first step to living a fuller and more joyful life. Success looks different for everyone. Reprocessing and understanding your life experiences can bring peace and self-compassion. I work with children, adolescents, and adults by providing specialized trauma-informed services. Neurofeedback is an incredible tool to regulate the body and mind. I have the most up to date and advanced training in the Othmer (EEGinfo) method of biofeedback. EMDR, IFS, and ketamine assisted therapy are also some of my favorite tools for healing. I understand the pain and struggle it can take to get out of bed every day. Let’s make you, the best you that you can be. A body of rigorous research into the efficacy of neurofeedback exists and is growing. Historically there has been a treatment emphasis on brain neurochemical interventions, not neuroelectric. Neurofeedback has potential to treat any significant neurological and psychiatric disorders in a way that is free from long term side-effects. Effectiveness in some hard to treat populations is promising. Frequently long-lasting effects are seen, as evidenced with PTSD and SPECT brain scans. Neurofeedback’s application is not only focused on deficits but has an application to peak performance in athletes, musicians and elites. The implications and outcomes are profound both scientifically and clinically.
Lyle “Cac” Cook, PA
Lyle “Cac” Cook is a Physician Assistant with nearly 30 years of medical experience. A graduate of the University of California Davis’ Physician Assistant program, he also completed a 1-year Psychiatric Fellowship through UC Davis and UC Irvine, and is a Neurofeedback Provider. Prior to joining our practice, Cac worked as a healthcare provider in family practice. Upon completing his most recent education in Psychiatry and Neurofeedback he is finding fulfillment by serving his patients in a different capacity by providing quality mental healthcare. It is his belief that all people, regardless of race, gender identity or sexual orientation, should have access to efficient and quality mental health care. To schedule an appointment with Cac please contact our front office.
Carolyn Scott, CMHC
I blend compassion and creativity with proven techniques to help foster growth, healing, and change. My goal is to help clients make sense of life experiences in a secure/comfortable/safe environment, to find empowerment, and to learn skills to create a life they believe is worth living. I have over a decade of experience working with diverse populations including children in leprosy colonies, youth in residential treatment, adults on probation and parole, survivors of trauma, families, and individuals struggling with various issues. I’m trained in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RODBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), sand tray therapy, Gottman method couples therapy, exposure response prevention (ERP), emotional release processing (a type of therapy that uses guided imagery and regression to help individuals process emotion about past experiences), and Promethean Spark life coaching through the arts. I have experience helping people with stress, low self esteem, depression (including suicidal ideation and non-suicidal self-injury), anxiety, trauma, relationship issues, family dynamics, grief/loss, addiction, emotional dysregulation, personality disorders, multicultural issues, communication, attachment, LGBTQ+ issues, ADHD, body image, and more. When I’m not at work, you’ll find me singing with my soul band, exploring the world, trying and sharing new recipes, laughing with friends, reading lots of books, and enjoying nature.
