We all have the potential to lead a fulfilling life. Difficult challenges may keep us from reaching that potential though, and we can find ourselves stuck in repetitive cycles of suffering. I am a licensed psychologist and psychotherapist in Santa Rosa and run a group practice where we offer individual psychotherapy and neurofeedback, all focused on the alleviation of symptoms through inner transformation.
With close attention to the unresolved emotional pain and nervous system dysregulation that drive symptoms, my associate therapists and I help clients create a more satisfying way of living, while finding the transformative potential that life's difficulties often carry. While I find neurofeedback training to be helpful for a wide range of issues, I am particularly excited about working with children, adolescents, and adults who have experienced lifelong difficulties with anxiety, panic, and concussion.
Read Dr. Machado's articles on neurofeedback explained, neurofeedback for PTSD, and neurofeedback for teens.
With close attention to the unresolved emotional pain and nervous system dysregulation that drive symptoms, my associate therapists and I help clients create a more satisfying way of living, while finding the transformative potential that life's difficulties often carry. While I find neurofeedback training to be helpful for a wide range of issues, I am particularly excited about working with children, adolescents, and adults who have experienced lifelong difficulties with anxiety, panic, and concussion.
Read Dr. Machado's articles on neurofeedback explained, neurofeedback for PTSD, and neurofeedback for teens.
Services
Clients often come to psychotherapy for help with symptoms associated with particular mental health issues.
Although diagnosis plays an important role in psychotherapy and is required for insurance reimbursement, we look beyond your symptoms to understand what is of deepest concern to you.
We understand your symptoms in the larger context of your past, present, and what you want for the future, while drawing on your innate strengths and resilience.
Clients also come to psychotherapy seeking support in resolving non-clinical, developmental life concerns, transitions, relationship issues, and shifts in identity.
Although diagnosis plays an important role in psychotherapy and is required for insurance reimbursement, we look beyond your symptoms to understand what is of deepest concern to you.
We understand your symptoms in the larger context of your past, present, and what you want for the future, while drawing on your innate strengths and resilience.
Clients also come to psychotherapy seeking support in resolving non-clinical, developmental life concerns, transitions, relationship issues, and shifts in identity.
We offer psychotherapy in Santa Rosa in which you have a safe, confidential space to explore what is of most concern to you.
We balance learning adaptive skills for dealing with the difficult symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, or other life challenges with a focus on approaching and resolving the underlying dynamics contributing to these difficulties.
In this way, we help you to develop a meaningful relationship with yourself while moving toward the life you want.
Our approach to therapy varies depending on your needs.
We balance learning adaptive skills for dealing with the difficult symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, or other life challenges with a focus on approaching and resolving the underlying dynamics contributing to these difficulties.
In this way, we help you to develop a meaningful relationship with yourself while moving toward the life you want.
Our approach to therapy varies depending on your needs.
When we provide feedback to the brain we are, essentially, providing it with a mirror of its own function and 'inviting' it to make more of some frequencies and less of others.
In neurofeedback, we seem to be nudging the brain to set up new oscillatory patterns that enhance both its natural complexity and its inherent and necessary bias toward self-regulation.
In effect, we may be freeing up innate but 'stuck' oscillatory properties in the brain and allowing new ones to propagate.
Neurofeedback training has been used therapeutically since the late 1960's for problems associated with the central nervous system.
In neurofeedback, we seem to be nudging the brain to set up new oscillatory patterns that enhance both its natural complexity and its inherent and necessary bias toward self-regulation.
In effect, we may be freeing up innate but 'stuck' oscillatory properties in the brain and allowing new ones to propagate.
Neurofeedback training has been used therapeutically since the late 1960's for problems associated with the central nervous system.
EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is a therapeutic approach developed by Francine Shapiro, Ph.
D. in the late 1980's.
Shapiro observed that highly charged memories (i.e., traumatic memories) resulting from negative life experiences become less charged with certain eye movements.
Eye movements in EMDR are one form of bilateral stimulation (BLS)-that is, alternating stimulation of the left and right sides of the brain.
EMDR is based on the theory that, during overwhelming experiences, information is improperly stored in our memory network.
D. in the late 1980's.
Shapiro observed that highly charged memories (i.e., traumatic memories) resulting from negative life experiences become less charged with certain eye movements.
Eye movements in EMDR are one form of bilateral stimulation (BLS)-that is, alternating stimulation of the left and right sides of the brain.
EMDR is based on the theory that, during overwhelming experiences, information is improperly stored in our memory network.
I believe that, at its core, effective and meaningful psychotherapy occurs in a trusting relationship between client and therapist-a relationship that is in great part the agent of change.
I work to provide you with the safe and necessary container in which you discover hidden sources of strength, resilience, and knowing, and learn new methods and tools for facing life's challenges.
By carefully exploring your struggles together, we find and care for those places in you that long for attention, and support you to engage with your life in a more fulfilling and satisfying way.
I work to provide you with the safe and necessary container in which you discover hidden sources of strength, resilience, and knowing, and learn new methods and tools for facing life's challenges.
By carefully exploring your struggles together, we find and care for those places in you that long for attention, and support you to engage with your life in a more fulfilling and satisfying way.
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