Dr. Patricia Jo Ryan, a licensed Psychologist in Venice, FL who utilizes a blend of traditional (REBT) talk therapy, and Neurotherapy/Biofeedback to provide a more robust benefit to counseling. Sharon Begley, a journalist for Newsweek, asked the question, "Can We Build A Better Brain". Dr. Doige, a psychiatrist and author, writes about " How The Brain changes Itself".
So what do these authors have in common? Brain wave activity can now be measured in real time by computers, therefore, we can now reward brain wave patterns by providing, what I call "brain food" in the form of visual and auditory feedback. So we need good assessment tools and this process has moved swiftly into the 21st century. We use clinical interview techniques, paper-and-pencil tests, computerized tests now to provide a thorough evaluation before any type of treatment is offered at this facility.
All types of evaluations are offered here, such as personality and cognitive testing as well as providing brain maps, using QEEG (Quantitative Electroencephalogram) to help us detect and assess current brain functioning.
So what do these authors have in common? Brain wave activity can now be measured in real time by computers, therefore, we can now reward brain wave patterns by providing, what I call "brain food" in the form of visual and auditory feedback. So we need good assessment tools and this process has moved swiftly into the 21st century. We use clinical interview techniques, paper-and-pencil tests, computerized tests now to provide a thorough evaluation before any type of treatment is offered at this facility.
All types of evaluations are offered here, such as personality and cognitive testing as well as providing brain maps, using QEEG (Quantitative Electroencephalogram) to help us detect and assess current brain functioning.
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Dr. Patricia Jo Ryan, a licensed Psychologist since 1981.
She is an Associate Fellow and an Approved Supervisor of the Albert Ellis Institute, the originator of Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy.
She provides a wide variety of psychological services for children, adolescents, and adults.
Dr. Ryan added another specialization, EEG Biofeedback, also know as Neurofeedback and Neurotherapy, in 1998.
Additional biofeedback services, such as Heart Rate Variability (HRV) are also featured as a value-added service.
She is an Associate Fellow and an Approved Supervisor of the Albert Ellis Institute, the originator of Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy.
She provides a wide variety of psychological services for children, adolescents, and adults.
Dr. Ryan added another specialization, EEG Biofeedback, also know as Neurofeedback and Neurotherapy, in 1998.
Additional biofeedback services, such as Heart Rate Variability (HRV) are also featured as a value-added service.
Mental fitness is more than the absence of illness, both mental or physical.
Just as an engine gets out of tune, so does our brain over time due to various life events and outside stressors.
We may lose the timing and flexibility to move easily through emotional states, and our brain may not fire as normally as it could resulting in less than functional behaviors.
Nonetheless, the brain is a very forgiving organ in so many ways.
Our society has focused on physical fitness and drug therapy to the exclusion of finding ways to maintain mental fitness in more natural ways.
Just as an engine gets out of tune, so does our brain over time due to various life events and outside stressors.
We may lose the timing and flexibility to move easily through emotional states, and our brain may not fire as normally as it could resulting in less than functional behaviors.
Nonetheless, the brain is a very forgiving organ in so many ways.
Our society has focused on physical fitness and drug therapy to the exclusion of finding ways to maintain mental fitness in more natural ways.
Neurofeedback is a process which bathes our brain in healing frequencies, what we regard as "brain food".
This, in turn, allows our brain to make the corrections it needs to get us back on track and keep us on track.
This marvelous organ acts and reacts quickly based on our past experiences and we take for granted that our conscious experience is correct whether it is or not.
For example, if a person is deprived of sensory experience, e.g., sight, smell, sound, touch, taste and temperature, for a few days, the brain begins make its own experiences in the form of hallucinations.
This, in turn, allows our brain to make the corrections it needs to get us back on track and keep us on track.
This marvelous organ acts and reacts quickly based on our past experiences and we take for granted that our conscious experience is correct whether it is or not.
For example, if a person is deprived of sensory experience, e.g., sight, smell, sound, touch, taste and temperature, for a few days, the brain begins make its own experiences in the form of hallucinations.
Neurofeedback is a process that encourages a learned skill based on the natural principle of repetition and practice.
Whatever you are practicing becomes a learned response over time in the brain, be that practicing a good pitch in baseball, making hoops in basketball, or any other skill we acquire with practice.
Practice is also how we all develop speech and thought patterns.
Just as we learned to ride a bicycle by practice, each practice session added another piece of information to the brain so that eventually we could balance and ride freely without much thought.
Whatever you are practicing becomes a learned response over time in the brain, be that practicing a good pitch in baseball, making hoops in basketball, or any other skill we acquire with practice.
Practice is also how we all develop speech and thought patterns.
Just as we learned to ride a bicycle by practice, each practice session added another piece of information to the brain so that eventually we could balance and ride freely without much thought.
We offer a variety of services.
Individual psychotherapy is the cornerstone of those services.
The main therapy approach we use is Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.
Dr. Ryan has been practicing this modality for the past 29 years.
It is a problem-solving approach that works at the source of one's self-defeating thinking patterns and helps patients incorporate a strategy to develop different thinking skills to get better and stay better.
Personality and Intellectual Testing services using a comprehensive battery of objective tests to identify areas of strengths and challenges for individuals.
Individual psychotherapy is the cornerstone of those services.
The main therapy approach we use is Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.
Dr. Ryan has been practicing this modality for the past 29 years.
It is a problem-solving approach that works at the source of one's self-defeating thinking patterns and helps patients incorporate a strategy to develop different thinking skills to get better and stay better.
Personality and Intellectual Testing services using a comprehensive battery of objective tests to identify areas of strengths and challenges for individuals.
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