Speakers: Holly Grimm, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Brandywine Valley Counseling and Neurofeedback. Jennifer Willemsen, LMFT, Los Angeles, CA
What problem were you trying to solve, and what made you choose NewMind over anything else?
Jennifer Willemsen, LMFT: I found NewMind when I was looking for alternative ways to help treat ADHD and anxiety. I had clients who their anxiety was so debilitating that just coming to sessions and talking about it was creating panic in of itself. So I reached out and started looking at alternative options of how to help my clients with ADHD focus. How to help my clients with anxiety their systems to become more regulated, so they could actually address things that were causing the anxiety. I chose NewMind after a lot of research just because talking to Dr Soutar and Jason at NewMind they were so supportive, the level of help, and the course that you take with it. It was just a really comprehensive way to incorporate it and make me feel like I was really knowledgeable, when I actually was ready to start implementing it with my clients. As opposed to just kind of being given equipment and figure it out yourself. It was very the resources were very helpful and they continue to be helpful. So it was a really good choice for me not knowing much about it when I got into it
Holly Grimm: So when my husband and I first started with neurofeedback, we had actually heard about it at a conference that Bessel van der Kolk was giving about trauma and we had assumed it was a trauma treatment and so we went to get trained. Found out that it could be so much more and we started working under a couple of people getting mentored by a couple of people, and we were feeling really in over our heads. We went to a neurofeedback conference and we're sitting at lunch saying we need to maybe reevaluate whether whether we should be doing neurofeedback because it just feels way too overwhelming and happened to sit with somebody at lunch who said I know the guy you need to talk to, you need to talk to Dr. Soutar and he is going to simplify this whole thing for you. And we ended up talking to Dr. Soutar and he was right. The first time we talked to him we knew we were in the right place with somebody who, I hope I'm not embarrassing him, is so so smart. Probably one of the smartest guys I've I've ever spoken to in my life. And who really helped us come to a space where we felt like as clinicians, and not as engineers or I don't know computer geniuses, that we could really do this for our clients and feel very successful at it
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