Photo Report From The Vitaliza Center: Cutting-edge Psychology From Navarra
The team of professionals who work in Vitalizes We carry out our work from a therapeutic approach to which we are fully committed and which includes three phases.
We understand that the first challenge when we begin a relationship with the people who come to our center is to initiate a bond with them that allows us to walk together. While this bond is forged, we will try to know and understand as best as possible the history of the person who It comes to our center and the current moment it is going through. This moment would include the Assessment phase
After this first meeting, we believe that it is essential to provide our patients with the necessary tools to return to the minimum balance that allows them to return to developing their daily lives with a certain normality and that helps them to position themselves to be able to work from stability. necessary the aspects of your experience that have taken you out of your window of tolerance.
This is where the intermediate phase of Regulation and Stabilization comes in When the person has developed the capacity to remain sufficiently regulated, we will be able to work and elaborate on all the experiences in his or her history that may be generating disturbance in his or her present. Here we would enter the final phase of Integration.
Through the phases described and transversally to them, our intervention fits into a therapeutic and complementary triangle, in which Neurofeedback, Mindfulness and EMDR are found.
Mindfulness or Full Attention, aims to use and expand the brain’s natural capacity for self-perception , and consequently learn to live the present moment fully. We use mindfulness as an essential therapeutic tool that extends throughout all of Vitaliza’s work.
Since the very beginning of psychology, this ability of people’s minds to reflect on themselves, to focus on their own functioning and thus be able to tune in to the emotions and thoughts that occur within us has been placed at the center of the debate among psychologists and has been essential in all psychotherapeutic and personal growth models.
On the other hand, from areas as far removed from psychology as many schools of Eastern meditation are, especially within Buddhism, the development of this capacity for self-awareness in people has been the central axis of their knowledge.
Neurofeedback
The most recent lines of research in this field have shown that the brain is incredibly plastic and that harbors the ability to regenerate itself. It is the most adaptable organ in our system. Therefore, today we can say that “the brain can be trained.”
The team of psychologists that make up Vitaliza has extensive training and experience in the clinical use of neurofeedback. Neurofeedback is a type of biological feedback that directly affects brain function. It consists of a recording of brain electrical activity (electroencephalogram). The electroencephalographic signal, once digitally analyzed, allows us to observe the general activity of the brain and provides us with data on the functioning and connections between different brain areas.
Neurofeedback allows us, through the processing of electrical signals from the encephalogram, to design individualized treatment programs, reinforce certain types of activity and inhibit others.
The procedure is simple. Our professionals observe the way a person’s brain works at a specific moment. During training, the person looks at a screen where moving images appear and/or listens to different sounds. These images or sounds vary (as a reward or reinforcement) to the extent that the person’s brain is producing specific brain wave amplitudes and/or frequencies. In this way, the person learns to use their brain more efficiently.
With neurofeedback we try to attack those problems that have to do with deregulations in the activity of the cerebral cortex; anxiety and mood disorders, behavioral disorders, sleep problems, learning difficulties, etc.
EMDR
EMDR is an integrative psychotherapy that has Adaptive Information Processing as a reference for the conceptualization of treatment (PAI).
The work of our EMDR expert professionals is based on understanding the effect of deregulatory and traumatic life experiences on health and on the processing of these experiences through structured protocols that include different forms of bilateral stimulation. EMDR therapy is endorsed by the World Health Organization and the International Clinical Guidelines for the treatment of trauma.
EMDR is a patient-centered therapy that allows our psychologists to stimulate the healing tools inherent to the subject. Puts the information processing system into operation. The EMDR model focuses on the physiological activation that appears along with the sensations, emotions and negative beliefs under the symptoms that disturb the patient.
To finish, highlight something that, as professionals and as a team, we consider of special importance. Beyond our work method and the tools we use in our daily lives, The professionals who form Vitaliza have in the DNA of our work, warmth, support and respect for the people we serve We believe that the essence of restorative relationships lies in the forging of safe and sincere bonds where the people we accompany rediscover themselves being looked at in a different way and in this way begin again through their own history and the world that surrounds them. surrounds
