Start with an assessment
Both the ACE screener and the trauma screener are free on this site, and either is a reasonable first step. After that, the Individualized NeuroDevelopmental Profile.
Trauma and emotional dysregulation
Nervous system stability and emotional regulation run alongside active cognitive work, in the same hour. A system that cannot settle will not hold new learning, and remediation is learning.
The regulation systems
Regulation is carried by three systems working together, and trauma tends to affect all three.
Deep limbic system
Mood and emotional regulation, energy level modulation, and the sleep restoration that keeps both in range.
Basal ganglia
Anxiety level control and the body’s idle speed, the setting that decides how easily the system stands down.
Cingulate system
Resilience and adaptability, and the remediation of loops that will not release.
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What people describe
What people describe here is timing: a body that has already responded by the time the thought catches up.
- A body that responds before the thought arrives
- Being unable to drop out of alert even when nothing is wrong
- Emotion arriving at a size the situation does not explain
- Concentration that goes first when the system is loaded
How we work with it
Then the work itself
For this presentation that usually means NeuroCognitive Processing, neurofeedback and cognitive remediation in the same session. Regulation and cognitive work happen together, because a system that cannot settle will not hold new learning.
Questions people ask
What people ask before the free screeners, including how this sits alongside therapy.
Are the trauma screeners free?
Yes. Both the ACE screener and the trauma screener are free on this site, they take a few minutes, and there is no obligation attached.
Is this therapy?
No, and it does not replace it. We work on nervous system regulation and cognitive function. Many clients keep their therapist and do both, which is usually the right arrangement.
Why work on regulation before the cognitive work?
We do not, we work on them together. That is what NeuroCognitive Processing is: Dynamical Neurofeedback® and active cognitive remediation running in the same session.
Take something home with you
Between sessions is where most of the work happens. These are the downloads and the journal we hand to clients, sold through our storefront.
Adult Autogenics Audio
Twelve minutes of autogenics to run before a 33 minute session, which rounds the whole thing out to 45.
$9.95 USD
My “Lived-Experience” Journal
Handwriting reaches memory and emotional processing along pathways typing does not. Shipped inside the US.
$14.95 USD
Music for Wellness
Ambient soundscapes recorded with violinist Cathy Morris, for quieting a busy mind into a calm focus.
$19.95 USD
Prices in USD, as published in the storefront. Checkout, delivery and support for anything on this shelf run through store.cognitive-connections.com.
Two free screeners, no obligation
The ACE and trauma screeners are free here and take a few minutes. They tell us whether the regulation side is where to begin.