Ron Schwenkler, Clinical Director of Greenbrier Academy, was interviewed on L.A. Talk Broadcast by Lon Woodbury from Woodbury Reports, along with also co-host Larry Stednitz. Ron reviewed the scientific principles behind Brainspotting. He explained how it is a psychotherapeutic process used to aid clients gain access to their unconscious traumas.
Ron's Career at Greenbrier Academy For Girls
Ron Schwenkler is the Clinical Director over Aftercare at Greenbrier Academy For Girls. He holds several certifications in counseling and is currently using the modality of Brain Spotting in his clinical work.
Greenbrier Academy For Girls is a therapeutic boarding school that focuses on creating quality intrapersonal, interpersonal, and community relationships. Greenbrier Academy For Girls is located in the beautiful countryside of Pence Springs, West Virginia.
Just what is Brainspotting?
In the course of the discussion, Ron was asked to define Brainspotting and describe how it works in psychotherapy.
Ron described Brainspotting as an attunement-based psychotherapy that identifies, processes, and releases traumatic memories and beliefs. Brainspotting is the correlation between the eye position, the location of an unpleasant emotion or sensation in the body, and the client's attunement to this deep inner process. By bringing unconscious memories to the surface, the client is able to release and heal emotional hurt, physical pain, disassociation, and other distressing symptoms.
The discipline behind the process is simple: the consultant down-regulates the amygdala and up-regulates the hypothalamus. This happens when the client holds a fixed eye position that associates with their bodily awareness of existing emotions. With this procedure, the client can become watchful of an unpleasant memory while still remaining calm and restful.
The amygdala supervises fight, flight, or freeze responses in the face of an unsafe condition. While these responses are useful in an unexpected situation, they linger in the unconscious. Someone who was scared as a six-year-old may still be locked into early physiological pattern of deep fear as an adult.
Summary
Ron Schwenkler described how the psychotherapeutic model has been indispensable to the work he has been doing at Greenbrier Academy For Girls. He's currently planning on doing a doctorate to further his understanding of the therapeutic process.
Ron's Career at Greenbrier Academy For Girls
Ron Schwenkler is the Clinical Director over Aftercare at Greenbrier Academy For Girls. He holds several certifications in counseling and is currently using the modality of Brain Spotting in his clinical work.
Greenbrier Academy For Girls is a therapeutic boarding school that focuses on creating quality intrapersonal, interpersonal, and community relationships. Greenbrier Academy For Girls is located in the beautiful countryside of Pence Springs, West Virginia.
Just what is Brainspotting?
In the course of the discussion, Ron was asked to define Brainspotting and describe how it works in psychotherapy.
Ron described Brainspotting as an attunement-based psychotherapy that identifies, processes, and releases traumatic memories and beliefs. Brainspotting is the correlation between the eye position, the location of an unpleasant emotion or sensation in the body, and the client's attunement to this deep inner process. By bringing unconscious memories to the surface, the client is able to release and heal emotional hurt, physical pain, disassociation, and other distressing symptoms.
The discipline behind the process is simple: the consultant down-regulates the amygdala and up-regulates the hypothalamus. This happens when the client holds a fixed eye position that associates with their bodily awareness of existing emotions. With this procedure, the client can become watchful of an unpleasant memory while still remaining calm and restful.
The amygdala supervises fight, flight, or freeze responses in the face of an unsafe condition. While these responses are useful in an unexpected situation, they linger in the unconscious. Someone who was scared as a six-year-old may still be locked into early physiological pattern of deep fear as an adult.
Summary
Ron Schwenkler described how the psychotherapeutic model has been indispensable to the work he has been doing at Greenbrier Academy For Girls. He's currently planning on doing a doctorate to further his understanding of the therapeutic process.
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Learn more about Brainspotting. Stop by L.A. Talk Radio and listen to the full interview with Lon Woodbury.
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