Kathleen Wheeler, Ph.D., is a past president of the EMDR International Association and a psychiatric nurse practitioner. She is also the author of Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice Psychiatric ...

Currently, the first-choice treatment for PTSD is exposure-based psychotherapy, where therapists help rewire the emotions associated with the traumatic memory in the patient's brain, shifting from ...

A study published in Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience observed the efficacy of donepezil for addressing persistent verbal memory impairments among individuals with predominantly ...

A new study shows that when individuals with PTSD recall traumatic events, each person displays different brain activity, which is markedly different from when they recall a sad or neutral memory.

Life after trauma is complex. Many survivors struggle with a daily sense of being overwhelmed by life and by emotions that are difficult to control. For therapists, helping clients self-regulate is a ...

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) sounds complicated, but the treatment itself is straightforward.

It usually begins quietly. A thought appears without warning, tied to something unpleasant, and the body reacts before the ...

All In Solutions Counseling Center has expanded its partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs to include specialized trauma-focused therapy at its Boynton Beach facility. The Joint ...