Have you been in therapy for a while without making much progress or being able to maintain the progress that you do make?
Have you been given numerous diagnoses without much relief?
Do you feel checked out from your physical or emotional self or the world around you?
Do you ever feel puzzled by your own internal experience?
These can be signs of higher dissociative abilities. We can help people with complex trauma and dissociation.
When this is addressed, many clients make progress that they have not been able to make or maintain in the past.
What is Dissociation?
It’s really just a skill or strategy the brain develops naturally to adapt to certain life situations! Everyone dissociates to some degree, while some people experience dissociation more often or in more ways.
Complex, developmental trauma or stress contributes to dissociative abilities. People with histories of complex or developmental traumas would likely benefit from dissociation specific interventions.
Many people with long term depression and anxiety, PTSD, OCD, and Panic Disorder can benefit from support. Dissociation specific interventions are typically used in conjunction with other types of therapy.
Therapy Models:
We primarily use the Adaptive Internal Relational Network therapy intervention, known as the AIR Network. AIR Network was developed locally over the past 20 years by McClelland, Miller, & Solon. This therapy model is based heavily in neuro-psychological and neuro-developmental research.
We work to build on your ability to have a neutral awareness of your internal experience. This will help you build curiosity, cooperation, caring, and connection, internally and externally while honoring your self and others.
This is a heart-centered approach and builds self-compassion, self-care, self-nurturance, and self-kindness.
Our providers may combine other models with AIR Network interventions including the following:
Imaginal Nurturing, developed by April Steele. We focus on the parts of imaginal nurturing that develop healing and compassion for the self. Imaginal Nurturing fosters an awareness and focus on parts of the self while building emotion skill development.
Ego State and Internal Family Systems are the foundations of dissociation practice. Therapists begin to understand dissociation through these models. We continue to focus on how these models tracking the internal experience and not just what happens in our external lives.
Therapists at Mindful Way Counseling who are trained in complex trauma and dissociation:
Ruben Meza Maldonado Jr, LGSW, Andrea Patten, LICSW, Dr. Natalie Marr, PsyD. LP, and Molly Gurovitsch, LMFT