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We are an acute trauma therapy clinic. Rapid trauma resolution is our goal. We do not provide long term CBT/talk therapy. Psychotherapy is expedited with 1) cutting edge Low Energy Neurofeedback System, LENS, 2) Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing, EMDR, 3) Brainspotting, BSP, 4) Thought Field therapy, TFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique, EFT. By resolving the cause of depression and anxiety we eliminate years of psychotherapy. Unresolved suppressed/repressed emotions/traumas may surface post LENS, to be resolved in trauma processing. If symptoms as flushing occur, it is resolved through EFT/TFT or trauma processing. Resurfacing past trauma(s) allows for trauma resolution. Resolving causal trauma(s) eliminates triggers and negative patterns.
Unpredictable, uncontrollable, overwhelming negative emotions of triggers, as in obsessing, ruminating, OCD cease. When free to problem solve new behavior, you can develop new skills, initiate new action, be more productive as follow through is easy, 1) as memory improves, 2) initiative is effortless, 3) action requires less thought.
ADHD, overload-overwhelm-burn-out, anxiety, stress, depression can be alleviated quickly, often within a session, with LENS. Emotionally stuck life pattern scan shift, you can learn to respond instead of react with fear or anger. Resolving past traumas frees you to develop more effective strategies to achieve your goals.
We use rapid resolution trauma techniques to achieve our goals. Typically we can resolved lifelong trauma in a session. Progress is expedited by improving brain function with LENS. If one rapid trauma resolution technology isn't effective, we use anothe:. EMDR, BSP, or TFT/EFT resolve causal trauma to eliminate triggers, unpredictable, uncontrollable, overwhelming negative emotions. We do not work with Personality Disorder or Psychosis.
We reserve the right to discontinue services to any one. inappropriate, manipulative or abusive behavior, declining to pay their bill, needing long term services, unable to abide by our protocol are some reasons we have closed cases.
By resolving causal trauma, entrenched behaviors and old patterns disappear, allowing you to think through to create more productive, behaviors, effective strategies, versus reacting.
Contained trauma can be resolved with EMDR typically in 1-3 sessions depending on issue complexity and your processing speed. Trauma processing may enliven a past trauma which fades as processing continues. When repressed trauma surfaces, an opportunity for resolution is presented.
Medications: Anxiolytics, anti-depressants, psychotropics, mood stabilizers, bipolar medications, etc. block complete trauma resolution requiring reprocessing trauma. Residual emotions may surface the following weeks requiring 3-4 reprocessing sessions to resolve a trauma when one session is permanent, unmedicated. It can take 2-months for medications to clear from your system.
We communicate predominantly in text, which must be confirmed. Unconfirmed reminders are reassigned. Reminders are texted Sunday/Monday; must be confirmed by Wednesday. An initial orientation is telehealth. Questions, background, preparing trauma(s) for EMDR, preparing for LENS, determining dx and methodology occur. EMDR, BSP, TFT, or LENS are used in office sessions. We refer clients needing long-term CBT out. We do not provide long term therapy.
We collaborate throughout your therapy journey. Your input guides therapy technique(s), pace, switching trauma therapies, adding LENS, CBT, EMDR, TFT or EFT.
Compulsions, addictions, low esteem, anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress symptoms, when resolved change life dynamics. Productive behaviors tend to emerge in relationships and situations. Treatment is customized to achieve your goals, to expedite your journey to be who you want to be.
I did Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy 25 yr, Modified Incidental Teaching, Floor Time, cognitive-play therapy 15 years before moving into rapid resolution trauma therapies and LENS since 2013. Addressing the root of trauma, quickly and effortlessly, frees us from entrenched reactive patterns.
A cancellation notice is required at least 24 hr prior to your appointment. Same-day cancellation is $45. When we are not given sufficient time to fill a vacancy, waitlisted patients must wait unnecessarily longer and the hour cannot be billed. A $45 no-show/same-day cancellation fee is texted/emailed.
LENS, EMDR, TFT, & Brain Spotting are cutting edge trauma approaches to expedite issue resolution quickly and permanently including depression, anxiety, fear, loss, grief, mourning,
Thought Field Therapy, TFT
TFT is based on the Chinese acupuncture meridian system: that when blocked, the body's electric circuits backlog/stagnate ene
LENS, EMDR, TFT, & Brain Spotting are cutting edge trauma approaches to expedite issue resolution quickly and permanently including depression, anxiety, fear, loss, grief, mourning,
Thought Field Therapy, TFT
TFT is based on the Chinese acupuncture meridian system: that when blocked, the body's electric circuits backlog/stagnate energies. Tapping replaces needles at acupuncture points to clear blocks on the acupuncture meridians. When cleared, energy flows unobstructed. Trauma resolution goes to the root of the issue if full blown. An easy form of TFT is EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique.
Low Energy Neurofeedback System, LENS
LENS is a cutting edge dys-entrainment neuro-feedback that stimulates brain reorganization to optimize cognitive functioning. This subtle electromagnetic stimulus mediates ADHD, lifts depression, calms anxiety, revitalizes burn-out, improves traumatic brain injury and cognitive functioning in seconds. LENS expedites all other therapies by improving brain functioning, which provides insights, problem solving, overview of issues. Suppression opens through LENS brain reorganization. Revisiting past feelings, behaviors, or conditions represents flushing. In children this can revisit past behavioral difficulties but it surfaces issues for trauma processing and resolution. Traumas may flush in dreams, tearfulness, or in children, momentary behaviors. LENS effects include but are not limited to improved initiative, motivation, comprehension, thinking clarity, memory, mood, decision making are enabled as energies locked in suppression/repression are freed.
In the reorganization process, repression sometimes opens in dreams. Revisiting of past conditions, behaviors, or emotions, in children and adults, means these suppressed issues are clearing. This provides an opportunity for Trauma Resolution Therapies as EMDR, Brainspotting, or TFT. Trauma resolution expedites the process of clearing, freeing latent capabilities to emerge.
LENS can improve suppressed cognitive processing speed, productivity, performance, energy,
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing, EMDR
EMDR is in the guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association, (APA), Dept of Defense, (DoD), Veterans Administration, (VA), and World Health Organization, (WHO). It is 'Strongly recommended for PTSD' and associated symptoms as anxiety, fearfulness, depression, loss, mourning, OCD. E
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing, EMDR
EMDR is in the guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association, (APA), Dept of Defense, (DoD), Veterans Administration, (VA), and World Health Organization, (WHO). It is 'Strongly recommended for PTSD' and associated symptoms as anxiety, fearfulness, depression, loss, mourning, OCD. EMDR, developed in the 80s, is a bilateral stimulus, usually visual, sometimes tactile and auditory, that defuses the emotional charge associated with a trauma; 70% of the effect is via bilateral visual effect. In the process of activating and defusing a trauma, the trauma can momentarily feel more vivid before fading. Processing through this phase resolves feelings and often visuals of the trauma. Post resolution, talking about the event elicits no emotional reaction. EMDR unfreezes locked trauma in the brain-body. We can resolve grief, depression, anxiety, PTSD in 1-3 sessions typically. A contained trauma is resolved in 1-3 sessions. Ongoing childhood traumas where we must explore for causal issues usually elicits a LENS recommendation to flush/expedite finding essential issues. When we combine LENS prior EMDR it expedites the EMDR process. Suppression opens through LENS brain reorganization and EMDR corpus collosum activation simultaneously.
Brainspotting, BSP
Brainspottng accesses subcortical brain regions through neural connections behind the retina to the superior colliculi on the brainstem. It access visual, kinesthetic, and auditory layers of the superior colliculi, releasing unconscious suppressed emotions as grief, despair, sadness, anger depression, fear, etc. It can be life changing in its ability to release cellularly stored, pervasive unconscious emotions. Brainspotting resolves acute trauma typically in 1-3 sessions.
Brainspotting is done with a pointer on which you rest your eye gaze. As the pointer moves horizontally across your field of vision, you report whether the prior activated feelings are stronger or weaker. Eye gaze where stronger feelings occur dissipates the feelings, resolving a portion of the issue.
Beliefs and Emotions drive behavior, and ultimately health. Being repeatedly fearful or enraged is like pouring battery acid over the brain, it corrodes neurotransmission.
Eliminating the underlying cause of fears and rage allows flexibility into entrenched networks so thinking can replace reactions.
Muscular armoring, weight to protect o
Beliefs and Emotions drive behavior, and ultimately health. Being repeatedly fearful or enraged is like pouring battery acid over the brain, it corrodes neurotransmission.
Eliminating the underlying cause of fears and rage allows flexibility into entrenched networks so thinking can replace reactions.
Muscular armoring, weight to protect oneself spontaneously drops off the body when no longer needed.
Childhoods with pervasive violent traumas are defused gradually so opening suppression gradually defuses cumulative compressed emotions. Surfacing repressed emotions enables processing of forgotten emotions. Its resolution eliminates triggers..
Therapist Background
A psychotherapist since 1986, I realized in 22 years that CBT/talk therapy enabled understanding but didn't resolve trauma or grief of loss of significant others. triggers, or reactions to adverse events.
Bessel Van De Kolk, MD, international traumatic stress expert, notes EMDR in The Body Keeps the Score. The use of LENS, EMDR, Brainspotting, and TFT techniques effectively resolve trauma and shift entrenched lifelong patterns. . Mood and behaviors change.
Psycho-education, skill building, collaborative problem solving can develop skills, potentially missed in a dysfunctional conditioned (family) dynamic.
Neuro (brain)-feedback provides feedback on neurological function, just as bio-feedback provides feedback on biological function. Unlike EEG neurofeedback, which trains your brain to a therapist selected frequency in 30-50 minutes over 120 sessions, a LENS application is a few seconds of dysentrainment, which prompts the brain to reorganize. LENS is electromagnetic, not electric. It stimulates your brain using sensors. Your brain does its own reorganization self- customized. LENS increases neuro-plasticity, mental flexibility, and neural firing. Sometimes suppression opens, past emotions, behaviors or conditions may resurface; in tearfulness, in behaviors in children, dreams. This opportunity to process trauma w/ EMDR, BSP, TFT can expedite healing. This flushing is healthy.
LENS is a very subtle electromagnetic, not electric, signal, 4000 times gentler than your cell phone signal. It does not create symptoms or raise intelligence. When intelligence improves, it was present though repressed in the brain. Flushing, which can appear to revisit oppositional behavior in children, is actually part of the healing journey. It is temporary. LENS doesn't input or extract anything, it is a stimulus, so whatever surfaces was present in the brain. We proceed with caution with severe trauma histories. Even slight opening of cumulative suppression can result in release of suppression/repression. When the brain of someone on medications improves, they may experience a medication overdose as their brain no longer needs the same medication dose. When capabilities, IQ, or physical conditions improve, it was inherent in the brain, just reppressed.
Common effects include cognitive improvements within 6 sessions. A severe stressor after a LENS can appear to neutralize LENS gains as stress puts additional strain and wear on the brain. A strong LENS can alleviate past stress, burn out, exhaustion, but it cannot prevent future stressors affecting the brain. Weak self-monitors notice nothing despite brain map changes. Their family, friends, or others may notice improvements in their behavior, ability to cope, and performance.
LENS can expedite EMDR, BSP, TFT and most psychotherapies through cognitive optimization, Cognitive functioning, mood improves in traumatic brain injury, PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, academic/occupational performance.
Children: as cognitive functioning is optimized LENS effortlessly aligns behavior. It is non-pharmaceutical, non-invasive, improves learning, can shift behavior quickly. If LENS opens suppression, a child may revisit past emotions, conditions, or behaviors; flushing is temporary. Children respond quickly, can recover from 'behaviors' in 1-12 sessions. The younger the child, the faster the response. In traumatized children the journey can appear to be: improvement, worsening, improvement, worsening, until improvement displaces unwanted behavior.
College students: LENS reduces procrastination, improves initiative, comprehension, recall, writing, follow through, clear thinking, and focus. It typically improves performance.
Adults: LENS expedites other psychotherapies, improves initiative, productivity, follow through, focus. A deliberate overdose can quickly lift acute/chronic depression, burn-out/exhaustion, diminish lifelong dysthymia, calm anxiety, improve mood, optimize mental speed, acuity, memory. Sometimes a feeling of destabilization occurs as the brain reorganizes to improve performance. Sometimes vivid dreaming or nightmares occur as suppression opens.
Seniors: processing speed, memory, mood, sleep, physical balance/coordination, energy, initiative, stamina, improve if hormone levels are sufficient. Hormones fuel brain-body functions. Individuals with hormonal deficiency either respond weakly or do not respond to LENS
Common Effects
Vivid dreams, resurfacing of past or forgotten trauma(s) enable flushing, surfacing of unresolved emotions for processing. EMDR/BSP, TFT trauma therapies are used to resolve issues that surface. The result includes increased energy, motivation, initiative, high productivity: doing more in less time, better sleep, ease in decision making, seeing through manipulative behaviors. A lift in depressed mood, overload, stressed circumstances is common.
Overdose
A LENS overdose reorganizes the brain to a greater extent than is comfortable. It sometimes opens suppression, revisits past emotions, behaviors, or conditions, surfaces in dreams. A mild overdose feels wired/energetic or tired. Overdose symptoms: a low, intermittent, or weird headache, insomnia, or irritability. Cognitive functioning is improved once discomfort passes. Depending on the amount of overdose, it may pass in an hour or a few days. To mediate an overdose: eat root vegetables such as potato, beet, carrot, taro, gobo, turnip, ginger, sweet potato, yam, etc. make contact with your bare feet on the earth, walk on the beach, swim in the ocean. These activities connect you to the earth's electromagnetic field, the Shumann Resonance, and calms overdose.
Your brain changes with each LENS. In other words, we are working with a new brain each LENS so overdose is challenging to anticipate. Overdose means more reorganization is occurring, exceeding your comfort level. Re-rate your top 10 LENS issues for a scale of your rate of improvement.. Your brain maps record your brain changes with each LENS. Rerating your top 10 issues compares pre-test with post-test.
1 Package of 10 sessions discounted:
$150 LENS consists of up to 5 brain sites per session.
Ten $150 sessions are discounted from $1500 to $1400.
$175 LENS consists of 6-10 brain sites per session.
Ten $175 sessions are discounted from $1750 to $1650.
$199 LENS consists of 11-21 brain sites per session.
Ten $199 sessions are discounted from $1990 to $1890
1 Package of 5 sessions discounted:
$150 LENS consists of up to 5 brain sites per session.
Five $150 sessions are discounted from $750 to $720.
$175 LENS consists of 6-10 brain sites per session.
Five $175 sessions are discounted from $875 to $845.
$199 LENS consists of 11-21 brain sites per session.
Five $199 sessions are discounted from $995 to $965.
1. Can LENS cause a seizure? LENS is 4000 times gentler than your cell phone. Your cell phone, which sends a signal 4000 times stronger than LENS, is more likely to cause a seizure. If your cell hasn't caused a seizure, it's unlikely LENS could cause a seizure.
2. How many LENS do I need? It depends on your condition and your goals. Some individuals with traumatic brain injury can recover in 3-6 sessions. LENS has a cumulative effect of lasting longer as the brain incorporates it. Clients segue from weekly to bimonthly to monthly then each two or three months for refreshers. Complex traumas as pervasive childhood abuse benefit from combined therapies. Targeting dose can take a few sessions depending on the accuracy of the initial three subjective questionnaires. LENS stimulates brain reorganization and optimization, lifts stress, depression, exhaustion. It cannot prevent new stressors from impacting your brain. If impacted by a major stressor after a LENS, the stressor may overwhelm any benefit. If you have a major stressor before LENS, an aggressive LENS can mediate it. People in abusive relationships, high stress work environments, working in overload/burn-out may seek LENSmore frequently or as needed.
3. What drives the cost of LENS?
LENS is a cutting-edge neurofeedback technology. Unlike brain training neurofeedback, it allows your brain to customize reorganization, promoting neuroplasticity. Additional ongoing training is required and $15,000.00+ in initial equipment investment, not including sensors, conductive paste, witch hazel, cotton pads, towelettes, and training costs. Dr. Au was the only credentialed, licensed LENS provider for 7 years on Oahu. LENS opens suppression, stimulates brain reorganization to improve cognitive functioning. LENS can lift depression, calm anxiety, and improve perceptual outlook virtually instantly. Cognitive behavioral therapy takes years, and is unable to resolve traumas. LENS, via improved cognitive functioning and opening suppression can reduce therapy time.. Flushing is a common experience of revisiting past feelings, behaviors, and conditions. Currently no other technology exists that achieves results as fast, or with as little effort.
4. What ages do you LENS?
Ages 3-80. Hormones drive brain function. Unless your hormones are adequate to drive brain reorganization, stimulating your brain without hormonal fuel to drive reorganization can result in stored capability that activates when normal hormone levels are achieved. Some individuals, age 65+ benefit from bio-identical hormone evaluation/replacement to benefit from LENS.
5. How long does it take and what can I anticipate?
Set-up and take-down take longer than the LENS application, which is a few seconds. Everyone's brain 'customizes reorganization so dose and outcomes are unique to individuals. Some common effects are clearer thinking, better focus, ability to sustain attention, ability to get more done in less time, easier to initiate and complete tasks. Most people notice nothing during application but behave more positively after LENS. We do not LENS when ill. Some people with sub-clinical illness experience negative thoughts and feelings, a flushing. Effects may at times appear to worsen before improving as the reorganization process opens suppression. Unresolved thoughts and feelings may surface; how much or how fast depends on the severity and amount of suppression, dose strength, and your brain's ability to efficiently reorganize. EMDR, Brainspotting, or TFT can quickly resolve any repressed trauma that surfaces, or future LENS will continue to flush and reorganize a brain impacted by trauma.
Discount discontinued from August 2023. LENS rate:
3 online questionnaires must be completed at www.ochslabs.com to do LENS. Your top 10 LENS issues remain after questionnaires send. This is rerated 48 hr after each LENS.
LENS reorganizes/optimizes brain functioning. It can be used alone with excellent results. Combined with other therapies, LENS expedites other therapies.
Client feedback directs sessions: 1) Re-rate your top 10 LENS issues in 48 hr, or as effects are noted, to graph LENS progress. 2) your subjective verbal report guides the next dose. Pls rerate your top 10 LENS issues after every LENS.
21 head-sites: a LENS map is generated per session. 21-sites can be done in one session depending on individual physiology, sensitivity and tolerance.
More sites increase dose/speed of LENS therapy.
1) for those experienced w/LENS
2) for those under severe stress
3) for those requiring rapid gains
4) dependent on individual physiology
Not everyone needs a full map in one session. Individual resiliency and level of stress determines the necessity or benefit of a full map.
Low Energy Neurofeedback facilitates change faster than any existing Neurofeedback
1) Initial appt is telehealth, 2) link emailed the day of appt. 3) Text reminders must be confirmed.
Th, F, Sat 10:00-4:00
Closed Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
A trigger is unpredictable, uncontrollable, overwhelming emotions. Use EFT/TFT to resolve peak episodes. Use EMDR to resolve contained traumas. Resolving the cause of a trauma eliminates future triggers. An absence of triggered reactions allows functional behaviors to emerge. Resolving causal issues relieves your body of cellularly stored trauma.
EMDR is twice as effective in less than half the time compared to talk therapy (Kaiser study). It is used at Menninger Clinic to rapidly diffuse trauma, PTSD, phobias, panic, anxiety disorders, mediate addiction and compulsive behaviors, rage, grief, loss, shame, fears. Each trauma process can surface other traumas. Resolving trauma shifts perception, alters behavior, gives you the option to develop more productive coping mechanisms.
Low Energy Neurofeedback System, LENS, promotes neuroplasticity. Applied in seconds, it uses dys-entrainment, unlike EEG Neuroback (30-45 min brain training) entrainment model. Effects are noticed immediately by very sensitive clients. Your brain embraces a LENS signal to customize it's own optimization . LENS increases ease and clarity of functioning, de-stresses an overworked brain, opens suppression for increased plasticity and clarity.
Trauma Therapies
Low Energy Neurofeedback System, LENS, Oahu provider
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing, EMDR certified.
Brainspotting Practitioner
Thought Field Therapy, TFT
Algorithm certified.
Is it Abuse? Yes if...
1. You're walking on eggshells. You are confused, don't know why.
2. You're depressed, don't know why.
3. You don't know what's wrong with you: You feel alone in relationship.
Emotional abuse undermines self- esteem, confidence, motivation, autonomy, identity, independence with daily, insidious brainwashing.
4. Victims prioritize abuser feelings at the cost of their own feelings. They comply despite disagreeing, too afraid of their abuser to question, comment, or inform; which are all heard as challenges.
5. You are afraid to speak up, but don't know why, feel frequently stunned, Caught off guard, Confused.
6. You feel disparaged, minimized, a burden, disrespected, rejected.
Verbal abuse replays internally, immobilizes you with doubt and fear.
7. You are afraid of your partner. Feel emotionally crippled, psychologically blocked, threatened with harm.
Property abuse, pet abuse are emotional abuse. It engenders feelings of helplessness, cripples your personal empowerment.
Parking
1. Kukui Plaza: 55 S. Kukui St. $1.50/hr. Cross Beretania to office. Recommended
2. Alii Parking: Alakea St., enter after Mandalay Restaurant. $1.50/hr
2.5 blocks Ewa/West to office
3. Chinatown Municipal: Bethel & King St. $2.50/hr., 15 min grace
Walk 2 blocks East/Daimond Head to office
4. Walmart: Bethel & King. 2-hr free prkg w/$10.00 purchase or $3.50/hr
Walk 2 blocks East/Daimond Head to office
5. After 4:00 weekdays or weekends: parking in yellow loading zones is legal
Do Not Park at Century Square. Parking: $3.50/half-hr, no grace. No validation
Do Not Park at Honda Parking: 3rd Flr up-ramp on S. Kukui St. off Alakea, $6.00/hr
LENS
I didn't realize it could work so fast. Things don't bother me, I'm not overwhelmed. I'm sleeping better. She went from a D-F student to an A student overnight. I'm myself again (after Traumatic Brain Injury). My memory, mood, energy improved. I think faster, get more done, I'm more productive. I can see what's happening, it used to confuse me. I came in burnt out, the fog lifted, I'm fine. My comprehension, retention, performance improved. I'm happy, energetic, after crying and unable to get out of bed 2-months.
EMDR
The anniversaries of deaths don't bother me. People notice I behave differently. I don't run away any more, I can discuss things. I use words instead of exploding. Angry women don't scare me anymore. My rage is gone; I don't get angry anymore. I used words I didn't know I had instead of just saying things impulsively. I don't feel controlled any more, I can be me. I caught my irritation, thought about it, apologized, when before I'd blame and escalate. I'm sleeping better, my memory is better.
TFT
I was having the panic attack I had last night, but it just disappeared: post TFT. I was released from ER with meds that don't work: I've PTSD from childhood sexual trauma. Post TFT: I don't know what happened. It disappeared. I've been crying compulsively last couple days. I feel better. I can't stop obsessing about the abuse in rehab. Post TFT: I can't find it, I don't care about it.
Brainspotting
I had it wrong. I thought I needed dad's approval but I needed to approve of myself, to get his approval. Flushing: I forgot about that memory. Involuntary shaking: I'm not doing that.
After BSP I feel great, all that trauma is gone, completely gone.
1986-1989 Corrections OCCC, Halawa Prison
1992-1996 Families, CPS, DOH
1997-1998 Addictions WCCC Prison
1998-2009 Children, DOE, DOH
2010-2012 Guam Superior Court Guam Behavioral Health
2013-2014 Military Counseling
2014-2016 Counseling Center
2014-present: Private Practice
To resolve issues rapidly with minimal angst. To facilitate spontaneous behavioral change with minimal client-therapist effort.
To maximize potential, to sprout creativity through healing of emotions and causal traumas.
To eliminate lifelong patterns formed in childhood that govern expectations, goals, mood, behavior. To free the encumbered soul to be all it can be.
To support individuals with cutting edge therapies to expedite their journey toward their goals.
1. EMDR takes how long?
1-2 session average per issue
2. LENS takes how long? Some notice effects immediately. Others notice little until their goal is achieved. Application occurs in seconds.
3. How to expedite therapy? Combine LENS prior any trauma therapy. Or use TFT when fully activated.
4. Length of therapy? Depends: some want ongoing support, some weekly until their goal is achieved, others LENS as needed. Biweekly sessions can alleviate severe, intense, complex traumas. 12 sessions average alleviates lifelong entrenched patterns.
Trauma Resolution is Prevention Not Crisis Intervention
Cutting edge trauma therapies resolve issues/traumas to eliminate unpredictable triggers, overwhelming negative emotions. Trauma Therapy is preventive, Not crisis intervention. I resolve crises only in scheduled session. Trauma therapy, psycho-education and skill building develops reframing and independent trauma resolution, With fewer triggered reactions you can think through responses to develop effective, productive problem solving.
If you are in crisis, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room. Crises are triggered events/symptoms. Use EFT/TFT tapping, slow your breathing with deep breaths. I am not a 'crisis responder'.
Pharmaceuticals: if you are taking, anti-depressants, anxiolytics, major tranquilizers, your trauma processing will be slower. take longer, need to be repeated until resolved. Negative feelings are rendered inaccessible, but not resolved, by pharmaceuticals. This enables functioning but doesn't prevent triggers occurring. Resolving trauma eliminates need for pharmaceuticals, but is rendered more challenging on pharmaceuticals.
Revisiting very disturbing trauma repeatedly, as in reprocessing on medication, can retraumatize. Pharmaceuticals requires repeating trauma sessions until trauma is resolved. As brain function improves with LENS, overdose may occur on pharmaceuticals. Check your pharmaceutical insert for overdose symptoms.
No detailed or clinical information provided on phone or text.
Please do not come in when ill. We do not LENS when ill.
COVID-19 Update
We are taking every precaution to keep you safe by wiping surfaces, using a 99.9% antiviral spray, running two antiviral air filters in the therapy room, using essential oils with antiviral properties in diffusers, and keeping in-office sessions brief.
If you have a cold, sore-throat, fever, or feel unwell on the day of your LENS:
John Hopkins University Hospital regarding COVID-19
The virus is not a living organism, but a protein molecule, RNA, covered by a protective layer of lipid/fat, which, when absorbed by the cells of the ocular, nasal or buccal mucosa, changes their genetic code (mutation) and converts them into aggressor and multiplier cells. A protein molecule is not killed but decays on its own. Disintegration time depends on temperature, humidity, and type of material it lies in.
The virus is very fragile. The only thing protecting it is a thin outer layer of fat. This is why any soap or detergent is the best remedy. Soap or detergent foam cuts the fat; scrub for 20 seconds or more to create foam. Heat melts fat so use water above 25 degrees celsius to wash hands, clothes, dishes, everything. Pure peroxide dissolves the virus protein.
Request for documents
1.ESA letters:
a. There is no charge for Emotioal Support Animal, ESA, letters if it is completed during your session.
b. There is a $50 charge for ESA letters requested and composed outside your session.
2. Custom documents:
a. There is no charge for less than one-page letters you write, the therapist proofs and signs.
b. We charge $50/half-hr if the therapist must compose your letter, scan your medical record to provide verification.
c. We charge $50/half-hr if the therapist must verifiy your medical information on forms, requiring a medical record search.
Acute Trauma intervention
1. We are an acute care clinic specializing in trauma intervention. We require those needing long term therapy to have a long term therapist to work with us.
2. If you are seeking a CBT (talk) therapist, go to www.hawaiipsychology.org for hundreds of referrals in Hawaii, www.psychologytoday.com for hundreds of referrals. CBT is fundamental in all psychotherapy education, part of most interventions. Please find a talk therapist for long term services, we specialize in trauma.
3. Many clients have a couples therapist or long term CBT-therapist and see us for LENS, EMDR, Brainspotting, or TFT trauma interventions periodically. MDs, psychiatrists, psychologists, and hospitals refer clients to us.
4. Both client and therapist may discontinue therapy for any reason.
We accept new clients. TriWest or UHC NOT accepted.
We accept: HMA, HMAA, HMSA/HMSA-Quest, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Aetna, Humana, PSWA, Medicare, Tricare/Tricare West w/PCP referral if Prime, Kaiser w/Pre-authorization, UHA, ESPYR, AlohaCare, Ohana. Ph 801-792-5060 for site probs.
1. Low Energy Neurofeedback, LENS
The only credentialed provider of LENS on Oahu. LENS improves cognitive functioning, thereby lifting depression, calming anxiety, increases neural plasticity, opens suppression, expedites other therapies.
2. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR
Resolves emotional charge in trauma, diffuses it so you can talk about it w/o emotion. EMDR is in the guidelines of American Psychiatric Association, Dept of Defense, Veterans Administration, and World Health Organization. Used by Red Cross in frontline interventions.
3. Thought Field Therapy, TFT; Emotional Freedom Technique, EFT
Tapping specific meridian points to resolve or diffuse trauma. Used by Redcross in frontline interventions.
4. Brainspotting, BSP; Gaze Spotting, GSP
Accesses the superior colliculi on the brainstem through neural connections behind the retina.
Autonomic nervous system auditory, tactile, visa aspects of trauma are triggered and resolved.
5. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT; Psycho-education
Reprograms conditioned behaviors via recognizing and retraining programmed behaviors that no longer serve you. Discovering your conditioning and changing it changes your outcomes.
Shari Au PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist
A psychotherapist since 1986 in OCCC, WCCC, TIFFE, Salvation Army ATS, CARE Hawaii, and Military bases. She worked with CPS/DOH families, which segued into DOE disabilities cases with children 15 years. She used EFT at Guam Supreme Court, TFT in 2012 Oahu. EMDR in 2013 was followed by LENS in 2016, Brainspotting by 2017, then Gaze Spotting. Her practice is trauma and abuse informed. Trauma resolution is expedited with rapid techniques, improved cognitive function. Cause is addressed to permanently eliminate triggers.
Stacy Pettersson LMHC, Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Worked with children in Utah and Hawaii the past 25 years, counseling and teaching special education. Licensed as a mental health counselor, her primary emphasis has been with children with behavior and learning disorders. Her main focus has been with children with Autism. EMDR trained in 2023.