AlphaMind Brain Centers, PLLC

Are You Ready To Process Your Trauma And Reclaim Your Life?

Are you struggling to recover from a recent situational trauma such as an accident, assault, serious injury or another frightening experience?
Has abuse or neglect from your childhood or other past experiences affected your ability to develop a healthy, trusting relationship with yourself or others?
Are you easily triggered, perpetually anxious or often in either a hyper-vigilant or depressive state?
Have you struggled with poor self-esteem and turned to drugs, alcohol, food, sex, self-harming behaviors or other potentially harmful ways to cope with pain?
Are you looking for an effective treatment that can stop intrusive thoughts and frightening memories so you can feel normal and whole again?
The after-effects of trauma – whether caused by a single incident or the culmination of prolonged abuse – can be devastating, and can impact all aspects of your life. You may feel alone in your pain and ashamed by what happened to you, making it hard to connect with and trust others. Or, you may perpetually feel on edge, afraid you’ll be triggered into panic or that you’ll experience the same trauma again. Your nights might be restless and plagued with incessant thoughts or nightmares, making it hard to fall and stay asleep. You may also find yourself avoiding situations that remind you of the trauma, or turning to substances to numb your thoughts and emotions.

Countless Americans Struggle With The After-Effects Of Trauma

Millions of Americans- roughly 60% of men and about half of all women- struggle to heal from at least one trauma in their lifetimes. Men are more likely to struggle with the after-effects of trauma following an accident, physical assault, disaster, combat or witnessing a death or injury. Women often experience trauma through sexual assaults and abuse. Following an intense traumatic experience, roughly 7 percent of the population will develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). People suffering from PTSD often experience flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, and nightmares. It is also common to begin avoiding people, activities and places that might trigger memories of the trauma.

You may have tried therapy in the past to work through painful feelings and memories, but still feel stuck in grief and trapped by trauma. Whether you are struggling with PTSD, feel dissociated or hyper-vigilant in the wake of a recent trauma, or were abused as a child, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) treatment can mitigate trauma symptoms and help you move forward in your life.

EMDR Treatment Can Help You Let Go Of Negative Feelings And Beliefs

If you’re struggling to work through a trauma, EMDR treatment can help. This proven, effective treatment can help you move past your traumatic experience(s), process trauma and cultivate a calmer, more grounded and balanced life.

QEEG is a brain map that measures activity in the brain and determines where the deregulations is occurring.
Therapy options are then developed with this scientific knowledge. This also gives us the roadmap for Neurofeedback protocols.

Quantitative EEG, sometimes referred to as brain mapping, is the measurement through digital technology of electrical patterns at the surface of the scalp which primarily reflect cortical electrical activity or “brainwaves.” Brainwaves occur at various frequencies. Some are fast and some are quite slow. The classic names of these EEG bands are delta, theta, alpha, and beta.

Beta brainwaves are small, faster brainwaves (above 13 Hz.) associated with a state of mental, intellectual activity and outwardly focused concentration. This is basically a “bright-eyed, bushy-tailed” state of alertness.

Alpha brainwaves (8-12 Hz.) are slower and larger. They are associated with a state of relaxation and basically represent the brain shifting into idling gear, relaxed and disengaged, waiting to respond when needed. If we merely close our eyes and begin picturing something peaceful, in less than half a minute there begins to be an increase in alpha brainwaves. These brainwaves are especially large in the back third of the head.

There are two levels of Theta (4-8 Hz.) brainwaves. The range of 4-6 hz basically represents the twilight zone between waking and sleep. It is a profoundly calm, serene, floaty, drifty state that occurs just before we fall asleep. It is a range where conscious intellectual activity is not occurring. The higher range of theta (6-8 hz.) is associated with mental inefficiency generally, but in the central front part of the brain is associated with a state of very inwardly focused attention such as occurs when we are engaging in complex, inwardly focused problem solving (such as mental arithmetic). This is also the level that people enter when they go into deep hypnotic or meditative state (extremely relaxed but inwardly focused).

Delta brainwaves are the slowest, highest amplitude brainwaves, and are what we experience when we are asleep.

In general, different levels of awareness are associated with dominant brainwave states. Each of us, however, always has some degree of each of these brainwave bands present in different parts of our brain. Delta brainwaves will also occur, for instance, when areas of the brain go “off line” to take up nourishment. If we are becoming drowsy, there are more delta and slow theta brainwaves creeping in, and if we are inattentive to external things and day dreamy, there is more theta present. If we are exceptionally anxious and tense, an excessively high frequency of beta brainwaves is often present. Persons with ADD, ADHD, learning disabilities, head injuries, stroke, Tourette’s syndrome, epilepsy, and often post-polio syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia tend to have excessive slow waves (usually theta and sometimes excess alpha) present. When excessive number of slow waves is present in the executive (frontal) parts of the brain, it becomes difficult to control attention, behavior, and/or emotions. Such persons generally have problems with concentration, memory, controlling their impulses and moods, or with hyperactivity. They can’t focus very well, and exhibit diminished intellectual efficiency.


What the QEEG is not

It is important to understand that a QEEG is not the same as a “clinical EEG” which is used in medical diagnosis to evaluate epilepsy or to determine if there is serious brain pathology, such as a tumor or dementia. The quantitative EEG evaluates the way a particular person’s brain functions. It is not designed to diagnose tumors, epilepsy, or other medical conditions in a manner like an MRI or CAT scan. The QEEG neuromeric statistical analysis allows us to know, in many cases with a 90% degree of accuracy, that someone has functional brain abnormalities, but it cannot perfectly predict. The QEEG also provides valuable input that assists in the diagnosis of various psychiatric-psychological conditions, but it is a fundamental principle that one method alone should not be used to make a diagnosis or for decision making.

Neurofeedback teaches the brain to change itself and helps attention, mood, behavior, cognition, and more. In simple terms, neurofeedback is positive reinforcement for the brain. It teaches the brain how to be better balanced. Neurofeedback training makes use of the brain’s amazing capacity for change and its ability to reshape how it works to help us meet the challenges we face.

Although we are all born with networks of neurons and connecting fibers, our brains are constantly being shaped by experience. Repeated experience results in increased connections among neurons and in greater strength in the existing connections. These small changes, frequently enough repeated, lead to changes in how our brains work. Many university studies have shown that it is possible to change brain activity patterns through feedback guided learning.

Our Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) devices help reduce anxiety, depression, insomnia and pain. Whether your distress is situational or chronic, nearly everyone can find relief using these CES devices.. CES has been around since the 1980's and many studies have found it both safe an effective to treat a variety of mental distress. Our CES device is FDA cleared for anxiety, depression and insomnia.

WHY GUESS… TEST…
AlphaMind uses CNS Vital Signs in-office to perform neurocognitive testing and assessments. This is a non-invasive clinical procedure to efficiently and objectively assess a broad spectrum of brain function performance or domains under challenge (cognition stress test) and 50+ computerized clinical and quality rating instruments which allows for more accurate of a diagnosis including ADD/ADHD, OCD, PTSD, Anxiety/Depression, Concussions, Dementia, ALZ and many more.

Detect and track even slight (millisecond precision) cognitive impairments providing immediate clinical insight into a patient’s current status and level of impairment
Help evaluate the possibility of secondary gain e.g., academic accommodation, drug or disability seeking, malingering, symptom feigning etc. with embedded cognitive performance validity indicators
Give patients, family members and caregivers knowledge of cognitive domains that underpin the ability to conduct activities of daily living..
Establish a neurocognitive baseline in each patient to use in later treatment decisions
Longitudinally track clinical endpoints to aid in the monitoring and management of many clinical conditions and treatments e.g., measure the response to treatment like AD/HD medication, rehabilitation efforts, cognitive behavioral therapy – CBT, etc. and used to measure clinical outcomes
Help identify domains needing additional or full neuropsychological evaluations

AlphaMind provides compassionate, comprehensive assistance to Military Veterans who are seeking a PTSD compensation rating or have had their PTSD claim denied.

Services Provided:
Initial clinical PTSD basic evaluation to ensure validity of case (virtual or in office)
Writing Medical Opinions
Referrals to National VA Accredited Agents who will assist in claim processing
Confidential Mental Health Counseling performed by a CCMC licensed therapist.

As a marker of physiological resilience and behavioral flexibility, it reflects our ability to adapt effectively to stress and environmental demands.

By reducing stress-induced wear and tear on the nervous system and facilitating the body’s natural regenerative processes, regular practice of coherence-building techniques can help restore low HRV to healthy values leading to positive emotional changes, increased access to intuition and creativity, cognitive and performance improvements, and favorable changes in hormonal balance.

AlphaMind Brain Centers provides professional counseling and personal coaching services. Some of the services we provide include: Qeeg Brain Mapping, Neurofeedback, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Based Therapy, Heart Rate Variability Training, Stress Reduction, Life Transition Coaching - End of Life, Grief/Loss Coaching, Brain Health and Wellness Coaching, Peak Performance, Mindfulness and Meditation Training, Alpha/Theta Journey/Training, Cranial Electro Stimulation, EMDR Therapy, Yoga/Tai-Chi Movement Therapy, Concussion Rehap/Therapy, Nutrition Fitness and others...

These are just a few that we treat.