Magic of Reconsolidation
NLP for Mental Health Professionals
Learn how to use knowledge from brain science and memory reconsolidation theory to increase your effectiveness as a psychotherapist and consistenlty and precisely create transformational changes with your clients. Help them overcome PTSD, resolve attachment issuses, and finally become free of the emotional learnings of their past. THE CURRENT GROUP IS FULL — but you can still email with questions or to get on a waiting list!
So... can you tell me a little bit more about this group?
Absolutely!
The Magic of Reconsolidation Training & Supervision Group combines the benefits of training — learning exciting new ideas and techniques — with the process of supervision — applying that new information in a skillful way — so that you can become even more effective as a therapist working with your clients. More specifically, we will be learning, practicing, and developing ways to incorporate memory reconsolidation theory to dramatically improve our ability to help people recover from trauma and update limiting beliefs trapped in emotional memory.
Ecker, Ticic, and Hulley, in their book Unlocking the Emotional Brain (2012), present a clinical framework for using new findings in brain research called the Therapeutic Reconsolidation Process (TRP). TRP can be applied to any experiential psychotherapy to make sense of how and when transformational change occurs. One experiential therapy model, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), often produces magical results, and TRP explains why this happens and provides a clear map of how to attain these results easily and predictably. And, TRP and NLP can be integrated with the way you already do therapy to enhance how you practice, not supplant it.
Most importantly, though, is that this is a collegial undertaking where we can all work together to explore where psychotherapy is heading as we apply new findings in brain science and figure out how to help people more profoundly than ever before. It’s the beginning of a great adventure.
Case Presentations
Here are several case examples to illustrate how powerful therapy done within the framework of memory reconsolidation can be.
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60 Years of PTSD
Jacob was 72 years old when he came into my office. He explained that at the age of twelve, he came home from school and had a horrible thing happen — his mother sent him up to get his grandfather from his bedroom, having no idea that his grandfather had died by suicide shortly before. Not only did young Jacob discover the body, but it happened in a way that left him trapped underneath the body, yelling for his mother’s help. For sixty years Jacob hadn’t slept through the night and had been haunted by nightmares, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts about his dead grampa. Amazingly, after one session of psychotherapy, all those symptoms vanished and have never returned.
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Driving Phobia
“I just can’t do it. Even if it’s only a half an inch, if there is any snow at all I can’t even start the car.” Julie was a relatively new driver at 19 years old. Unfortunately, 3 months before she arrived in the office, she had been out driving during a snow fall, unexpectedly hit some black ice, and her car slid off the road, hit a tree, and her airbag deployed. Even though she was uninjured, every time she thought about driving in the snow she panicked and hadn’t been able to drive comfortably since the accident. Within two sessions she was back on the road and not worried at all.
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Panic Disorder
Karen watched helplessly as her toddler seized uncontrollably. She waited 17 minutes for the ambulance to arrive. She had to give her one-year-old child CPR twice to keep her alive. Now, four weeks afterward, she hadn’t had a full night’s sleep since the event and could barely leave her daughter to go into the next room. She reported having three to five panic attacks a day. Using reconsolidation theory informed techniques, at the end of one session she was calm and able to think about the seizure and her daughter without any trouble at all. A follow up call six weeks later confirmed that the change stuck and she was sleeping through the night, able to leave her daughter with other people, and hadn’t had a single panic attack since we met.
Magic of Reconsolidation Training & Supervision Group
What you get and how you join!
- What You Get:
- Two 90 minute Zoom sessions each month
- PDFs of all handouts
- Access to all video recordings of prior sessions
- Membership to the Magic of Reconsolidation Facebook group
- Who can join and what are the expectations?
- All group members must be licensed mental health professionals or grad students in an accredited degree program
- All group members are expected to be prepared, participate, and have their cameras on
- All group members are encouraged to attend the live sessions as often as possible
- Videos are intended for review purposes
- What is your investment?
- You first month — two 90-120 minute sessions — are free!
- After your free trial, you pay one low fee on the first of the month.
- You may cancel at any time!
- How do I join the Magic of Reconsolidation Training and Supervision Group?
- CURRENT GROUP FULL — Just click the button below and send me an email, I'll get right back to you and sign you up!
What some lovely, misguided people have said about me...
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Bruce had been urging me for years to learn more about memory reconsolidation and when I finally did, it completely changed the way I practice. His mentorship is a crucial part of my learning; he helps me to find the right interventions for my clients, and as we practice together I get to understand them from the perspective of guide and recipient. I used to shy away from working with clients with flashbacks and intrusive memories, now helping them reconsolidate their emotional experience is one of my favorite things to do.
SusanMalcolm, LCSW Licensed Social Worker, Portland, Maine -
Bruce served as my clinical supervisor for licensure in New York State. His supervisory style provided ample room for me to learn and grow, gaining confidence over time. Through Bruce’s humor, laid back demeanor and unique clinical lens, he provided provocative questioning, ongoing insights and professional challenges, while encouraging me to trust myself and my own unique perspectives. Highly recommended.
Margaret Masci, LCSW-R Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Rochester, NY -
I first learned about Bruce Teall and his work helping people process traumatic experiences from a colleague at the University of Rochester. I refer to Bruce often and he has been helpful to everyone I've sent his way, particularly in achieving relief from intrusive thoughts and feelings related to traumatic experiences.
Ann Betz, LCSW-R Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Rochester, NY -
Bruce is weirdly wise, which we tolerate because he is also incredibly funny. He is a clinician that even well-versed therapists can learn from.
Judy O’Leary-Sargent, PhD Clinical Psychologist, Peer Supervision Member -
Bruce and I have been professional colleagues for over 20 years. I seek out his perspective when my logical, left-brain approach falls short in helping clients achieve desired behavior change. Bruce is a master of modality, a virtuoso of visualization, a director of dissociation, and a troubadour of trance. I believe his therapeutic intuition and skill has helped clients improve rapidly. What more can be said?
Christine Steermman, PhD Licensed Clinical Psychologist -
Bruce is a skilled and talented psychotherapist who has been in practice for 30 years. As a member of our psychotherapy peer supervision group, Bruce is a source of invaluable feedback and direction. He offers thoughtful and creative approaches to the most challenging therapy cases. Bruce is easily approachable and he delivers his wisdom with a delightful mix of empathy and humor.
Paula Briggs, LCSW-R , Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Peer Supervision Member -
I have referred many clients to Bruce, professionally and personally, because I know they will receive compassionate, clinically sound care. He has been effective with difficult clients, some of whom had seen previous therapists without making progress. I have also had the pleasure of co-facilitating trainings with Bruce. As a trainer, I have found Bruce to be engaging, witty, and extremely knowledgeable.
Bryan Mentry, LCSW-R Livingston County Mobil Mental Health Team -
Bruce is a talented and insightful therapist with that rare ability to connect quickly to clients, inquire about their perceptions and then help them to find workable alternatives. He asks penetrating questions which allow for clients to consider what they want from therapy, how they think about their world now and how to isolate strategies which will help them get to where they want in life.
Cindy Pond, LCSW-R Clinical Social Worker in Private Practice -
I know Bruce both as a colleague and as a relative of someone he treated. Our community is fortunate to learn Mr. Teall’s approach, i.e. concrete retrievable skills to raise resilience and adaptability in emotional crises.
Margaret Lindsey, MD Psychiatrist
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