Crystal Vilen

Learning the link between thought/beliefs, emotions, and behaviors. Challenging negative beliefs and reframing with positive alternatives. Learning, developing and implementing enhanced coping, calming, relaxing, mindfulness, and grounding techniques. Gradually exposing to anxiety trigger with support and practicing skills learning including positive reframed beliefs. Identifying, labeling, and expressing emotion. Role playing social interactions.

8 phase process that starts with building trust and rapport with therapist and establishing a safe place to address trauma. Challenging negative beliefs and replacing with positive alternatives with rapid eye movement stimulation. Body scan reviewing areas of tension and working through any thoughts, memories or behaviors attached to the physical sensations. Reducing emotion intensity of negative beliefs and increasing belief in positive alternatives. Brain reprocesses memory.

Includes psychoeducation, parent sessions, affect expression, relaxation, cognitive coping to help child reprocess traumatic events with learned skills to decrease intensity and increase safety. Child learns out to label, identify and express a variety of emotions. Child will work on retelling their story using a new lens of everything learned in sessions. Developing and implementing safe social skills. Build positive child and parent connection. Establishing safe environments and plans

Treating school anxiety, social anxiety, avoidance, and panic attacks. Learning, practicing and implementing coping and calming strategies through mindfulness, grounding, exercise, music, play, and other ways of soothing self. Exploring the anxiety and triggers. Challenging negative beliefs and reframing to positive alternatives. Practice labeling and expressing emotion. Gradual exposure to anxiety trigger with support and implementation of learning self regulation strategies.

Exploring past relationships and attachments and how they impact current relationships and attachments. Assist in rebuilding trust and processing emotional wounds. Improve emotional connection and strengthen relationships . Learn past experiences of responses from others and identifying reframed helpful responses. Challenging learned beliefs in the attachments and relationships. Challenge the negative self-narratives rooted in past trauma.

Building trust and rapport while also establishing a safe environment. Learning emotional expression and labeling. How to convey emotions. Challenge the negative self-narratives rooted in past trauma while instilling positive alternatives. Reprocessing trauma with learned and implementing skills. Decreasing intensity of emotion intensity and increasing positive beliefs and processing. Psychoeducation. Parent child relationship building.