Treatment utilizing the wisdom of Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems is the psychotherapy people turn to when they have not been able to achieve their goals with other therapeutic approaches.
What is different and what makes this therapeutic approach more effective?
The therapeutic assessment process is focused on the present moment functioning capacities of multiple emotional systems rather than on the symptoms, diagnosis, or history. This allows the therapy to be more precise, efficient and effective. Often there is observable and physical
progress within each session.
These therapeutic treatments are based on neurobiological knowledge and wisdom rather than on psychological theories and speculations. The nature of the treatments can work directly with emotional learning from infancy. That is what makes it so effective. Addressing emotional learning from infancy can be unfamiliar for some patients. However the innate adaptive power of the emotional brain systems from early childhood enable more profound and long-lasting changes. For example this Illustration demonstrates how therapy can harness the energy of the safe brain system to remove the constraints of fear and achieve a level of psychophysiological calm that enables optimal emotional and mental functioning.
The therapeutic process is experiential rather than cognitive. This requires the active collaborate involvement of both the therapist and patient. A collaborative process means we are both in this together as equals. The process works in the present moment rather than understanding or reworking the past.
This paradigm enables the therapist to make empirical observations of the patient’s nonconscious emotional resources. Those strengths can then be facilitated, harnessed and reinforced during the session. New emotional experiential learning can then be practiced between sessions to keep the therapeutic process moving forward. Each session starts afresh with the expectancy and novelty of possibilities rather than picking up where the previous session ended.
These treatment approaches harness several forms of neuroplasticity which maximize the mind’s ability to change the structure of the brain. All of the above features enable a more efficient and rapid completion of psychotherapy. In learning how to be attuned to yourself and others around you, you will achieve a deep kind of emotional intelligence. The quality of your relationships will improve. You will continue growing and changing even after you have completed therapy.