INVICTUS MIND-BODY INTEGRATION THERAPY
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TYPES OF THERAPIES OFFERED
We offer trauma-focused, client centered, somatic therapy. Including but not limited to EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), IFS (Internal Family Systems), Art Therapy, Hypnotherapy, and Brainspotting.
What is Somatic Therapy? Somatic therapy is a form of body-centered therapy that looks at the connection of mind and body and uses both psychotherapy and physical therapies for holistic healing. In addition to talk therapy, somatic therapy practitioners use mind-body exercises and other physical techniques to help release the pent-up tension that negatively affects a patient’s physical and emotional wellbeing.

EMDR is an evidence-based, clinician led, psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In addition, successful outcomes are well-documented in the literature for EMDR treatment of other psychiatric disorders, mental health problems, and somatic symptoms.
The model on which EMDR is based, Adaptive Information Processing (AIP), posits that much of psychopathology is due to the maladaptive encoding of and/or incomplete processing of traumatic or disturbing adverse life experiences. This impairs the client’s ability to integrate these experiences in an adaptive manner. The eight-phase, three-pronged process of EMDR facilitates the resumption of normal information processing and integration.
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This treatment approach, which targets past experience, current triggers, and future potential challenges, results in the alleviation of presenting symptoms, a decrease or elimination of distress from the disturbing memory, improved view of the self, relief from bodily disturbance, and resolution of present and future anticipated triggers. EMDR therapy is a therapeutic intervention that must be administered by an EMDR trained clinician or those who are currently participating in an EMDRIA Approved training.​
As described by EMDRIA.ORG
EMDR
(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

Art Therapy
Art Therapy is an integrative mental health and human services profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship.
Art Therapy, facilitated by a professional art therapist, effectively supports personal and relational treatment goals as well as community concerns. Art Therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensory-motor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivate emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, reduce and resolve conflicts and distress, and advance societal and ecological change.
Art therapists are master-level clinicians who work with people of all ages across a broad spectrum of practice. Guided by ethical standards and scope of practice, their education and supervised training prepares them for culturally proficient work with diverse populations in a variety of settings. Honoring individuals’ values and beliefs, art therapists work with people who are challenged with medical and mental health problems, as well as individuals seeking emotional, creative, and spiritual growth.
Through integrative methods, art therapy engages the mind, body, and spirit in ways that are distinct from verbal articulation alone. Kinesthetic, sensory, perceptual, and symbolic opportunities invite alternative modes of receptive and expressive communication, which can circumvent the limitations of language. Visual and symbolic expression gives voice to experience, and empowers individual, communal, and societal transformation.
As described by the American Art Therapy Association

INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS (IFS)
IFS is a transformative tool that conceives every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts lead by a core Self.
IFS is frequently used as an evidence-based psychotherapy, helping people heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts. IFS creates inner and outer connectedness by helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts.
But IFS is much more than a non-pathologizing evidence-based psychotherapy to be used in a clinical setting. It is also a way of understanding personal and intimate relationships and stepping into life with the 8 Cs: confidence, calm, compassion, courage, creativity, clarity, curiosity, and connectedness.
As described by the IFS Institute
Brainspotting

Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms. Brainspotting is a simultaneous form of diagnosis and treatment, enhanced with Biolateral sound, which is deep, direct, and powerful yet focused and containing.
As described by Dr. David Grand
Hypnotherapy (sometimes called hypnotic suggestion) is a therapeutic practice that uses guided hypnosis to help a client reach a trance-like state of focus, concentration, diminished peripheral awareness, and heightened suggestibility. This state is similar to being completely absorbed in a book, movie, music, or even one's own thoughts or meditations. In it, a person is unusually responsive to an idea or image, but they are not under anyone’s “control.” Instead, a trained clinical hypnotherapist can help clients in this state relax and turn their attention inward to discover and utilize resources within themselves that can help them achieve desired behavioral changes or better manage pain or other physical concerns. Eventually, a client learns how to address their states of awareness on their own and in doing so, gain greater control of their physical and psychological responses.
The American Psychological Association and American Medical Association have recognized hypnotherapy as a valid procedure since 1958, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recommended it as a treatment for chronic pain since 1995.
As defined by Psychology Today
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Hypnotherapy

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Meditation and Yoga
The interplay between yoga and the autonomic nervous system is a vital facet of the evidence-based aspects of the yoga therapy approach for trauma recovery. As van der Kolk describes in his seminal book, “The Body Keeps the Score”, the body retains the memory of trauma with reverberations echoing in the biological stress response and how traumatic events are processed and remembered.7 West, Liang, and Spinazzola further contend that yoga therapy equips individuals to regulate their emotional responses safely, fostering a sensation of security within one’s body.
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As trauma travels through the cognitive and somatic dimensions of an individual—whether from violent crimes, sexual assault, intimate partner or domestic violence—yoga therapy stands poised as a potential game-changer. It offers a holistic approach that taps into the body’s inherent wisdom, steering trauma survivors towards a path of recovery and rediscovery of their innate sense of wholeness.
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Meditation therapy is “a method of relaxation and consciousness expansion by focusing on a mantra or a keyword, sound, or image while eliminating outside stimuli from one’s awareness” (Mosby’s Medical Dictionary, 2009).
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A mental health professional may use a variety of techniques based on the patient’s needs. One exercise might work for one person but be ineffective for another. Fortunately, there are several options.
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Meditation, be it mindfulness or more traditional, is a healthy habit. Young and old can benefit from meditation therapy. If you want to feel less anxious, more grounded, and happier, then a meditation practice is an effective approach.
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