Therapist Background

Shari Au, PhD

I started providing psychotherapy in 1986.

I was a developmental disabilities specialist, an autism consultant and behavioral specialist with DOE and DOH. I designed programs to improve disabilities in children, applied over 1- 4-years. Research testifies autism is curable in young children. My age 3 grandson developed full language during chelation. He now studies aerospace engineering at Embry Riddle, top US University.

After 25 years of CBT/talk therapy, I realized in 2013 EMDR training I could obtain results in less time with less effort. I could resolve trauma, which CBT/talk therapy cannot do, in a few sessions.

I realized with Low Energy Neurofeedback training, instead of working 4-years with an individual I could work 4-weeks with LENS and EMDR to achieve results. LENS can lift depression, calm anxiety, expedite trauma processing and other therapies. I achieve more in less time with LENS and rapid trauma resolution therapies as EMDR, BSP, TFT/EFT. I became a trauma therapist, rapidly resolving trauma in an acute care clinic.

Bessel Van De Kolk, MD, international traumatic stress expert, notes EMDR in The Body Keeps the Score. LENS alone or LENS + rapid resolution trauma therapies as EMDR/BSP/TFT or EFT can shift entrenched lifelong patterns. Resource development contributes to esteem, self-concept, and resilience.

CBT Psycho-education can develop missing skills as negotiation, compromise, collaborative problem solving, boundaries, reaching for, recognizing and responding, as well as provide alternate situational assessment.

2014 to Present -Psychologist Private Practice
2014 to 2016 - Samaritan Counseling Center psychologist
2013 to 2014 - Schofield Military Counseling
2010 to 2012 - Guam Superior Court psychologist
Guam Behavioral Health psychologist
1998 to 2009 - Care Hawaii, DOE, DOH, psychologist
1997 to 1998 - Salvation Army Addictions Tx Services
1992 to 1996 - Institute of Family Enrichment, CPS, DOH
1986 to 1989 - Corrections OCCC

1. Low Energy Neurofeedback System, LENS

The only psychologist providing LENS on Oahu.
LENS, used on ages 6 mo-74 yr, optimizes cognitive functioning, cognitively flexibility, increases neural plasticity, opens suppression, and expedites other therapies.

2. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR certified

Diffuses emotional charge in trauma, resolving it.
EMDR is in the guidelines of American Psychiatric Association, Dept of Defense, Veterans Administration, and World Health Organization. It is used by the Red Cross in frontline mass shootings/interventions.

3. Thought Field Therapy, TFT Algorithm certified; Emotional Freedom Technique, EFT

Tapping specific meridian points to resolve or diffuse trauma.
Used by the Redcross in frontline interventions. Used at Sandy Hook, found to be faster than EMDR to resolve trauma.

4. Brainspotting, BSP; Gaze Spotting, Practitioner

Accesses the superior colliculi on the brainstem through neural connections behind the retina.
An effective alternate rapid trauma technique.

5. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT; Psycho-education

Reprograms conditioned behaviors that no longer serve you.
Considers alternate perspectives for re-evaluation.

6. Ketamine Assisted Psychedelic Therapy, KAP

Increases neuroplasicity for 48-72 hr to expand possibilities.
2- hr experiential session surrounded by prep and integration sessions

Hawaii Trauma Center

Trauma Psychotherapy in Honolulu

Therapist Background

Shari Au, PhD