Sloan Gorman
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
LENS Neurofeedback
IFS:
Internal Family Systems
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Internal Family Systems is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on a client’s internal “parts” and “Self.”
In IFS, the mind is considered to be made up of multiple sub-personalities within each individual’s mental system. These sub-personalities take on different roles, such as an inner critic or wounded inner child, and these parts may hold painful feelings like anger and shame.
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The goal of IFS is to help clients access Self in order to heal wounded parts and bring the psyche into balance.
IFS is an evidence-based practice used to treat a range of mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, PTSD,
and substance abuse. The treatment timeline depends on your history and the issues you want to address.
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IFS is a movement. It's a new, empowering paradigm for understanding and harmonizing the mind and, thereby, larger human systems.​
I am an IFS Level 1 trained therapist.
EMDR:
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing
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EMDR stands for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. It is a powerful way to get the brain to learn much more quickly than usual, which makes possible both rapid realizations about essential truths about a situation or event. This can increase the rate of recovery from the effects of acute psychological trauma and slower but thorough recovery from the effects of chronic psychological trauma. EMDR is now the best researched and validated way of treating PTSD.
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How EMDR might work
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There are a few theories about how EMDR might work. One theory is that when a trauma occurs the ability to process information is disturbed and a neural pathology occurs. The brain/body freezes the information in its original anxiety provoking form, complete with the original images and negative self-assessment. Researchers think that EMDR is able to “nudge” that material so that the brain is able to neurologically reconnect and integrate the information. It appears that EMDR is able to help the brain finally process “stuck” material, enabling the person to arrive at an adaptive resolution. The painful event or trauma is then perceived as an unfortunate incident, but no longer produces the emotional pain that it did before.
LENS:
Low Energy Neurofeedback System
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LENS sessions conducted in person by special arrangement only
The LENS, or Low Energy Neurofeedback System, is a unique and effective form of neurotechnology that targets the central nervous system and utilizes real-time brain waves to help alleviate symptoms, optimize functioning, and reclaim neurological and physiological potential.
Clients across the lifespan, from young children (3 months old) to the elderly, and even animals have benefited from LENS therapy.
What makes the LENS different from other forms of neurofeedback?
Each person’s brain waves (EEG signals) are unique to them and are constantly changing from moment to moment. Utilizing these EEG signals, (like fingerprints, they are unique to you) the patented LENS technology matches the feedback to each person’s own physiological (neurological) profile in real time.
Other forms of neurofeedback may require 40-80 sessions to elicit change and require much more time per session to obtain results. The LEN is more efficient, requiring fewer sessions.
What Does a Session Look Like?
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During a session, sensors are placed on the head or body and used to monitor the real-time brainwave activity being emitted at the skin surface. Your brain waves are unique to you (no two people are the same) and they change from one moment to the next. The LENS identifies your unique EEG signature, and uses this information to provide custom feedback.
This feedback is an electrical signal reflecting your own brainwave patterns back to you. This can help the brain reset its own electrical signal, which can improve how you feel and how you function. ​