Some options that I have witnessed make a significant difference and improvement in the lives of some of my loved ones include the following.

1. Neurofeedback significantly reduced nonspecific irrational anxiety. This treatment involves about 1 hour sessions where a therapist has a couple sensor electrodes attached to a person's head. They report to a computer the different frequencies that the persons brain is operating on. There are generally recognized ratios between these wavelengths that when the ratios are significantly off (alpha, beta, delta, theta), this has been shown to often produce issues for the individual like unexplained anxiety.

You will need to be very selective of the counselor whom is administering the treatment as there can be short term risks if the therapist targets the wrong area or in haphazard in the way they work to bring the ratios into synchronization, it can cause temporary issues (like a manic episode).

The therapy is entirely non invasive as the persons natural senses are utilized to effect the treatment as specific inputs are provided that the brain at a subconscious level recognizes the correlation of what is shown on a screen and the change of sound output with the particular brain wavelength activity that is occurring. It's rather amazing how it works as a simple graphic like a 8bit looking car driving down a road isometrically drawn on the screen and the way the brain is working with those targeted ratios measured only by the electrodes taped to the skin on the persons scalp will when working in the range desired will produce a beep or simple sound that the persons brain subconsciously recognizes and tries to get. Like playing a game. Often treatment involves at least 40 sessions which is required because the brain will revert back to old patterns and ratios of the target wavelengths of the new ratios have not been able to take hold (a figurative rut in your brains pattern of thinking).

2. Now another option that has been very helpful for anxiety and other issues (spectrum disorders etc) is "The Listening Program" by Advanced Brain Technologies. This is fairly straight forward. You listen to some rather unique classical music pieces specifically designed to target certain aspects of the brain within the music. This is done by dropping out certain instruments during the listening or pushing some aspect of the sound in a figurative sound space around the person listening similar to Dolby or THX in a home theatre system. The headphones involved are particularly expensive since there is a bone conducting part and the normal over ear studio style headphones. The improvements observed in the cases I have seen it used were nothing short of amazing. Treatments are about 15 minutes at a time and you would need to be tracked through the program by a certified therapist just to make sure things are progressing as expected and to answer any questions of they should arise. The total treatment time frame can be anywhere from 3 to 6 months.

3. Finally a third option would be counseling with EMDR therapy, which is also pretty amazing in the simplicity of the mechanical aspect of the therapy. It mimics rem sleep via a simple but specific targeted stimulus while the person is fully awake and discussing whatever they wanted to talk about (or for children in play therapy talking and doing activities). The mechanical piece could be a number of types of stimulus, but the common ones I have seen are buzzies held in the persons hand or possibly in the pant pockets on both sides that vibrate at specific target frequencies depending on the selection of the counselor whom is working with the person in session. The other method is a visual stimulus with a line of lights that move from one side to the other at the targeted frequencies as the person discusses things. EMDR has been particularly successful at helping trauma victims effectively process through their traumas when normal talk counseling has been unable to get them unstuck from integrating traumatic events into their life or world views so they can move past and heal from the mental scars of whatever the trauma was. Often traumas and our brains reaction to them create the loop that prevents us from generating a framework of understanding and integrating the trauma. The looping is the cause of being stuck and this therapy helps the brain to process the issue and build the framework that let's the person finally recover rather than constantly reliving in their mind the trauma.

I hope for you that you will encounter and obtain the therapy that truly helps your wife. I will say Christian counselling is probably as hit or miss in getting a good useful counselor who actually is helpful as counselors that don't label their practice as Christian based (even though they are Christian believers personally). My only experience with a Christian labeled counselor was that he was completely useless and rather than trying to work through issues that I was grappling with preferred to ask if what I was feeling was biblical as if to say well if you can't prove it's biblical then you shouldn't be feeling that way about that issue, so just stop having those feelings of anger or whatever it might be. The larger practice he was a part of was also utterly worthless as the owner liked to talk on the phone well in earshot of the waiting area, I recognized very quickly that he was incredibly prideful and arrogant and did not line up with a true belief that every human is created in God's image and this deserving of a basic level of dignity and respect. Anyway, I've probably said more than enough. If I were looking for a counselor today, I would probably seek out someone that is primarily Adlerian in approach to the counseling relationship.

Some options that I have witnessed make a significant difference and improvement in the lives of some of my loved ones include the following.

1. Neurofeedback significantly reduced nonspecific irrational anxiety. This treatment involves about 1 hour sessions where a therapist has a couple sensor electrodes attached to a person's head. They report to a computer the different frequencies that the persons brain is operating on. There are generally recognized ratios between these wavelengths that when the ratios are significantly off (alpha, beta, delta, theta), this has been shown to often produce issues for the individual like unexplained anxiety.

You will need to be very selective of the counselor whom is administering the treatment as there can be short term risks if the therapist targets the wrong area or in haphazard in the way they work to bring the ratios into synchronization, it can cause temporary issues (like a manic episode).

The therapy is entirely non invasive as the persons natural senses are utilized to effect the treatment as specific inputs are provided that the brain at a subconscious level recognizes the correlation of what is shown on a screen and the change of sound output with the particular brain wavelength activity that is occurring. It's rather amazing how it works as a simple graphic like a 8bit looking car driving down a road isometrically drawn on the screen and the way the brain is working with those targeted ratios measured only by the electrodes taped to the skin on the persons scalp will when working in the range desired will produce a beep or simple sound that the persons brain subconsciously recognizes and tries to get. Like playing a game. Often treatment involves at least 40 sessions which is required because the brain will revert back to old patterns and ratios of the target wavelengths of the new ratios have not been able to take hold (a figurative rut in your brains pattern of thinking).

2. Now another option that has been very helpful for anxiety and other issues (spectrum disorders etc) is "The Listening Program" by Advanced Brain Technologies. This is fairly straight forward. You listen to some rather unique classical music pieces specifically designed to target certain aspects of the brain within the music. This is done by dropping out certain instruments during the listening or pushing some aspect of the sound in a figurative sound space around the person listening similar to Dolby or THX in a home theatre system. The headphones involved are particularly expensive since there is a bone conducting part and the normal over ear studio style headphones. The improvements observed in the cases I have seen it used were nothing short of amazing. Treatments are about 15 minutes at a time and you would need to be tracked through the program by a certified therapist just to make sure things are progressing as expected and to answer any questions of they should arise. The total treatment time frame can be anywhere from 3 to 6 months.

3. Finally a third option would be counseling with EMDR therapy, which is also pretty amazing in the simplicity of the mechanical aspect of the therapy. It mimics rem sleep via a simple but specific targeted stimulus while the person is fully awake and discussing whatever they wanted to talk about (or for children in play therapy talking and doing activities). The mechanical piece could be a number of types of stimulus, but the common ones I have seen are buzzies held in the persons hand or possibly in the pant pockets on both sides that vibrate at specific target frequencies depending on the selection of the counselor whom is working with the person in session. The other method is a visual stimulus with a line of lights that move from one side to the other at three targeted frequencies as the person discusses things. EMDR has been particularly successful at helping trauma victims effectively process through their traumas when normal talk counseling has been unable to get them unstuck from integrating traumatic events into their life or world views so they can move past and heal from the mental scars of whatever the trauma was. Often traumas and our brains reaction to them create the loop that prevents us from generating a framework of understanding and integrating the trauma. The looping is the cause of being stuck and this therapy helps the brain to process the issue and build the framework that let's the person finally recover rather than constantly reliving in their mind the trauma.

I hope for you that you will encounter and obtain the therapy that truly helps your wife. I will say Christian counselling is probably as hit or miss in getting a good useful counselor who actually is helpful as counselors that don't label their practice as Christian based (even though they are Christian believers personally). My only experience with a Christian labeled counselor was that he was completely useless and rather than trying to work through issues that I was grappling with preferred to ask if what I was feeling was biblical as if to say well if you can't prove it's biblical then you shouldn't be feeling that way about that issue, so just stop having those feelings of anger or whatever it might be. The larger practice he was a part of was also utterly worthless as the owner liked to talk on the phone well in earshot of the waiting area, I recognized very quickly that he was incredibly prideful and arrogant and did not line up with a true belief that every human is created in God's image and this deserving of a basic level of dignity and respect. Anyway, I've probably said more than enough. If I were looking for a counselor today, I would probably seek out someone that is primarily Adlerian in approach to the counseling relationship.

Some options that I have witnessed make a significant difference and improvement in the lives of some of my loved ones include the following.

1. Neurofeedback significantly reduced nonspecific irrational anxiety. This treatment involves about 1 hour sessions where a therapist has a couple sensor electrodes attached to a person's head. They report to a computer the different frequencies that the persons brain is operating on. There are generally recognized ratios between these wavelengths that when the ratios are significantly off (alpha, beta, delta, theta), this has been shown to often produce issues for the individual like unexplained anxiety.

You will need to be very selective of the counselor whom is administering the treatment as there can be short term risks if the therapist targets the wrong area or in haphazard in the way they work to bring the ratios into synchronization, it can cause temporary issues (like a manic episode).

The therapy is entirely non invasive as the persons natural senses are utilized to effect the treatment as specific inputs are provided that the brain at a subconscious level recognizes the correlation of what is shown on a screen and the change of sound output with the particular brain wavelength activity that is occurring. It's rather amazing how it works as a simple graphic like a 8bit looking car driving down a road isometrically drawn on the screen and the way the brain is working with those targeted ratios measured only by the electrodes taped to the skin on the persons scalp will when working in the range desired will produce a beep or simple sound that the persons brain subconsciously recognizes and tries to get. Like playing a game. Often treatment involves at least 40 sessions which is required because the brain will revert back to old patterns and ratios of the target wavelengths of the new ratios have not been able to take hold (a figurative rut in your brains pattern of thinking).

2. Now another option that has been very helpful for anxiety and other issues (spectrum disorders etc) is "The Listening Program" by Advanced Brain Technologies. This is fairly straight forward. You listen to some rather unique classical music pieces specifically designed to target certain aspects of the brain within the music. This is done by dropping out certain instruments during the listening or pushing some aspect of the sound in a figurative sound space around the person listening similar to Dolby or THX in a home theatre system. The headphones involved are particularly expensive since there is a bone conducting part and the normal over ear studio style headphones. The improvements observed in the cases I have seen it used were nothing short of amazing. Treatments are about 15 minutes at a time and you would need to be tracked through the program by a certified therapist just to make sure things are progressing as expected and to answer any questions of they should arise. The total treatment time frame can be anywhere from 3 to 6 months.

3. Finally a third option would be counseling with EMDR therapy, which is also pretty amazing in the simplicity of the mechanical aspect of the therapy. It mimics rem sleep via a simple but specific targeted stimulus while the person is fully awake and discussing whatever they wanted to talk about (or for children in play therapy talking and doing activities). The mechanical piece could be a number of types of stimulus, but the common ones I have seen are buzzies held in the persons hand or possibly in the pant pockets on both sides that vibrate at specific target frequencies depending on the selection of the counselor whom is working with the person in session. The other method is a visual stimulus with a line of lights that move from one side to the other at three targeted frequencies as the person discusses things. EMDR has been particularly successful at helping trauma victims effectively process through their traumas when normal talk counseling has been unable to get them unstuck from integrating traumatic events into their life or world views so they can move past and heal from the mental scars of whatever the trauma was. Often traumas and our brains reaction to them create the loop that prevents us from generating a framework of understanding and integrating the trauma. The looping is the cause of being stuck and this therapy helps the brain to process the issue and build the framework that let's the person finally recover rather than constantly reliving in their mind the trauma.

I hope for you that you will encounter and obtain the therapy that truly helps your wife. I will say Christian counselling is probably as hit or miss in getting a good useful counselor who actually is helpful as counselors that don't label their practice as Christian based (even though they are Christian believers personally). My only experience with a Christian labeled counselor was that he was completely useless and rather than trying to work through issues that I was grappling with preferred to ask if what I was feeling was biblical as if to say well if you can't prove it's biblical then you shouldn't be feeling that way about that issue, so just stop having those feelings of anger or whatever it might be. The larger practice he was a part of was also utterly worthless as since the owner liked to talk on the phone well in earshot of the waiting area, I recognized very quickly that he was incredibly prideful and arrogant and did not line up with a true belief that everyone human is created in God's image and this deserving of a basic level of dignity and respect. Anyway, I've probably said more than enough. If I were looking for a counselor today, I would probably seek out someone that is primarily Adlerian in approach to the counseling relationship.

Some options that I have witnessed make a significant difference and improvement in the lives of some of my loved ones include the following.

1. Neurofeedback significantly reduced nonspecific irrational anxiety. This treatment involves about 1 hour sessions where a therapist has a couple sensor electrodes attached to a person's head. They report to a computer the different frequencies that the persons brain is operating on. There are generally recognized ratios between these wavelengths that when the ratios are significantly off (alpha, beta, delta, theta), this has been shown to often produce issues for the individual like unexplained anxiety.

You will need to be very selective of the counselor whom is administering the treatment as there can be short term risks if the therapist targets the wrong area or in haphazard in the way they work to bring the ratios into synchronization, it can cause temporary issues (like a manic episode).

The therapy is entirely non invasive as the persons natural senses are utilized to effect the treatment as specific inputs are provided that the brain at a subconscious level recognizes the correlation of what is shown on a screen and the change of sound output with the particular brain wavelength activity that is occurring. It's rather amazing how it works as a simple graphic like a 8bit looking car driving down a road isometrically drawn on the screen and the way the brain is working with those targeted ratios measured only by the electrodes taped to the skin on the persons scalp will when working in the range desired will produce a beep or simple sound that the persons brain subconsciously recognizes and tries to get. Like playing a game. Often treatment involves at least 40 sessions which is required because the brain will revert back to old patterns and ratios of the target wavelengths of the new ratios have not been able to take hold (a figurative rut in your brains pattern of thinking).

2. Now another option that has been very helpful for anxiety and other issues (spectrum disorders etc) is "The Listening Program" by Advanced Brain Technologies. This is fairly straight forward. You listen to some rather unique classical music pieces specifically designed to target certain aspects of the brain within the music. This is done by dropping out certain instruments during the listening or pushing some aspect of the sound in a figurative sound space around the person listening similar to Dolby or THX in a home theatre system. The headphones involved are particularly expensive since there is a bone conducting part and the normal over ear studio style headphones. The improvements observed in the cases I have seen it used were nothing short of amazing. Treatments are about 15 minutes at a time and you would need to be tracked through the program by a certified therapist just to make sure things are progressing as expected and to answer any questions of they should arise. The total treatment time frame can be anywhere from 3 to 6 months.

3. Finally a third option would be counseling with EMDR therapy, which is also pretty amazing in the simplicity of the mechanical aspect of the therapy. It mimics rem sleep via a simple but specific targeted stimulus while the person is fully awake and discussing whatever they wanted to talk about (or for children in play therapy talking and doing activities). The mechanical piece could be a number of types of stimulus, but the common ones I have seen are buzzies held in the persons hand or possibly in the pant pockets on both sides that vibrate at specific target frequencies depending on the selection of the counselor whom is working with the person in session. The other method is a visual stimulus with a line of lights that move from one side to the other at three targeted frequencies as the person discusses things. EMDR has been particularly successful at helping trauma victims effectively process through their traumas when normal talk counseling has been unable to get them unstuck from integrating traumatic events into their life or world views so they can move past and heal from the mental scars of whatever the trauma was. Often traumas and our brains reaction to them create the loop that prevents us from generating a framework of understanding and integrating the trauma. The looping is the cause of being stuck and this therapy helps the brain to process the issue and build the framework that let's the person finally recover rather than constantly reliving in their mind the trauma.

I hope for you that you will encounter and obtain the therapy that truly helps your wife. I will say Christian counselling is probably as hit or miss in getting a good useful counselor who actually is helpful as counselors that don't label their practice as Christian based (even though they are Christian believers personally). My only experience with a Christian labeled counselor was that he was completely useless and rather than trying to work through issues that I was grappling with preferred to ask if what I was feeling was biblical as if to say well if you can't prove it's biblical then you shouldn't be feeling that way about that issue, so just stop jabbing those feelings of anger or whatever it might be. The larger practice he was a part of was also utterly worthless as since the owner liked to talk on the phone well in earshot of the waiting area, I recognized very quickly that he was incredibly prideful and arrogant and did not line up with a true belief that everyone human is created in God's image and this deserving of a basic level of dignity and respect. Anyway, I've probably said more than enough. If I were looking for a counselor today, I would probably seek out someone that is primarily Adlerian in approach to the counseling relationship.