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Teen Anxiety: Tips for Parents

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Anxiety, Teen Counseling
If your teen has been struggling with anxiety lately, you can feel a little hopeless when it comes to helping them. It’s been found that nearly 1 in 3 teens will experience an anxiety disorder. The adolescent teen years can be some of the toughest years for your child. Worries from school, making friends, puberty,…
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History of Neurofeedback

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Neurofeedback
The theory of neurofeedback is that by training the brain, brainwave patterns can be altered to alleviate a variety of neurological and psychiatric symptoms. Though widely considered to be a “new” form of treatment, the ideas and practices behind neurofeedback have date back nearly a century. Brainwaves were discovered in the 1920s by a German…
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New Years Resolutions 2021

New Year’s Resolutions for 2021

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Uncategorized
As 2020 comes to its end, many of us are going to be rolling out our New Year’s resolutions! If you’ve had trouble with last year’s resolutions, don’t beat yourself up. We came up with some mentally healthy resolutions for the coming year that you can stick to.  This year, here are a few you…
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Crisis Survival Skills

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Anxiety, Uncategorized
Crisis Survival Has the current state of the world left you feeling more anxious and overwhelmed than you have in past years?  You’re not alone– Recently, the US has reported drastically elevated rates of adverse mental health symptoms, such as anxiety and depression.  When negative emotions become too intense, they can cause a dangerous state…
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What are the benefits of Neurofeedback?

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Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback, or NFB, measures brain activity and helps to discover patterns in brainwaves. The idea is that by changing the way one part of the brain corresponds to another, we can improve on a wide array of disordered traits. This can include traits such as undesirable behavior and difficult emotions, along with disorders such as…
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Dealing With Attention & Impulsivity Challenges

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drsteckerDr. Steffanie Stecker a licensed psychologist and the owner and clinical director of Mountain Vista Psychology, PLLC. In addition, she is a board certified neurotherapist (BCN E5669) and board certified in QEEG (QEEG-D). Less than 100 people world wide are board certified in QEEG, which indicates competency in reading QEEGs and choosing neurofeedback protocols. Dr.…
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Boundaries vs. Ultimatums in Relationships

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Uncategorized
Oftentimes, boundaries are confused with ultimatums in relationships. You know…when you and your partner argue and someone sets a “rule” with a “consequence” and doesn’t adhere to the “consequence?” This usually creates further conflict with accusations of threats being made, resentment later ensuing and finally another argument happens weeks or months later and your partner…
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Medicaid

Medicaid Counseling & Medicaid Neurofeedback

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Neurofeedback
It has been a long journey that started two years ago and….we are in!  I have a strong core value that everyone should have access to quality mental health care so two years ago, as a practice we started the journey to get paneled with Medicaid.  For those of you who don’t know, if someone…
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Motivating your Unmotivated Teen

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Teen Counseling
Parenting, teen and frustration…. words that are commonly used in the same sentence.  So you have an unmotivated teenager at home who you might refer to as lazy. You tell your friends how they won’t get out of bed, won’t go to school or do homework which leaves you feeling angry, frustrated and maybe even…
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back to basics

The Beauty of the Basics

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Anxiety
The Beauty of the Basics Life moves fast and it does’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon. The days are jammed packed with running around, dropping off, picking up, and overly involved with everyone and everything. With all of the chaos of life happening around us, when was the last time you were able…
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