The first step to improve your mental health isn’t seeing a therapist. That step comes later. The first step isn’t recognizing a problem that negatively impacts your life. Seeing problems isn’t the same as taking a step towards improving problems. Even knowing that you have… Read More »The first step to improving mental health
A Car Analogy Part 3 Really? It’s just one car? Yes. Really it’s just one car. Time to debunk the Triune Brain Theory. BCA Holistic Mental Health Therapy defines: 1) emotions as power, 2) thoughts as direction and 3) behavior as movements. The Car analogy… Read More »Emotional Power – a car analogy part 3:
BCA Holistic is a new mental health therapy based on brain development, functioning and neurology to address a person’s Behaviors, Cognitions, Affect [BCA] and relationships with shifting, delineated therapeutic roles and interventions based on a client’s mental health needs. BCA Holistic is significantly different… Read More »What is BCA Holistic Mental Health Therapy and why is it different?
Understanding how a child’s brain development impacts behaviors and emotions. A BCA Holistic approach is a new and innovative mental health therapy that looks at brain functioning and personal development related to mental health issues. BCA stand for Behavior, Cognition and Affect. Behavior is pretty… Read More »BCA Holistic Mental Health: Understanding the Development of a Child’s Brain
My Journey to seeing emotions as power. My journey to seeing emotions as power has been a life long process, starting long before I was a mental health therapist. It began as an curious, artistic, hyper ADHD child running around asking “why” to understand the… Read More »My Journey to seeing emotions as power
A Car Analogy Part 1: The Basics An insightful car analogy for explaining and understanding the awesome complex process of transforming our innate emotional powers into the thoughtful steering of our lives and the mindful roads we choose to travel on. BCA Holistic Mental Health… Read More »BCA Holistic Mental Health Therapy – a car analogy to explain our emotional powers
Part 5 Defining Emotions as Power BCA Holistic Mental Health Therapy defines emotions as power. That is, starting from birth, we are motivated, inspired, developed and energized by our emotional powers, which include electrical impulses, urges, frequencies and interactions; chemical and neurotransmitters reactions, and the… Read More »BCA Holistic Mental Health Therapy: Defining Emotions as Power
Part 4: Shifting Focus The BCA approach mindfully selects the therapeutic focus and roles throughout the entire mental health therapy process. This mindful approach includes awareness of the shifting focus from a snap shot to a process, and from a focus to a role. Shifting… Read More »BCA Holistic Mental Health Therapy: Shifting Focus
Part 3: Cognitive Interweave The BCA Holistic approach expands the perspective and understanding of what is actually dysfunctional. It does this by using a cognitive interweave, a snap shot of all the possible influences in their life, from the smallest intra-personal experiences to the world… Read More »BCA Holistic Mental Health Therapy: Cognitive Interweave
Part 2: Assessment BCA begins with recognizing that behaviors, thoughts and feelings are distinct aspects of every person, but also, highly individualized, interactive and overlapping. This perspective and approach are very typical of most mental health therapeutic models, because it is a very accurate… Read More »BCA Holistic Mental Health Therapy: Assessment