HOLISTIC PSYCHIATRY
There are some psychiatric conditions where medication can make the difference between functioning and not functioning. Psychiatric medications can be used in smaller quantities and can sometimes be tapered off when a holistic approach is employed. A holistic approach involves removing stresses, both psychological and physical, and supporting the mind and body's natural ability to heal.
FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE
You cannot be mentally healthy or happy if you are not well physically. Dr. Tatum will look at all your physical symptoms as well as mental and emotional ones. Based on clinical experience or sophisticated wellness testing, Dr. Tatum may recommend removing certain foods or environmental chemicals and then adding selected nutritional supplements. This approach can sometimes greatly improve your mood and health and lessen the need for medication.
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Although it is essential to look at one’s maladaptive thinking and behavior patterns, as is done in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, this is only the beginning. It is the non-rational, pattern processing, unconscious part of the brain that causes most of the problems, and these patterns were programmed in through conclusions you drew before age five. Fortunately, these patterns can be changed, but only through specific techniques, which you will be taught.
PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION
Changing your life to the life you dreamed of is not so difficult when you truly change who you are being in the world. This is not as difficult as you might think, since healing and change are natural processes and since there is a wonderful internal push towards greater enlightenment and transformation that is trying to occur naturally. Transformation involves healing the past and moving to a higher level of consciousness, where you can be happy and in harmony with life. After resolving the presented problems, we will focus on you blossoming into your full potential.
QEEG AND BIOFEEDBACK
It would have been much harder to learn to write if you could not see. Biofeedback allows you to see what your body or brain is doing, so you can change it. With practice, it not only becomes automatic, but permanent, changing genetic expression. The Quantitative Electroencephalogram or “Brain Map” not only guides brainwave biofeedback, but also can be very helpful in understanding complex cases.
TOMATIS LISTENING TRAINING
Tomatis Listening Training is the original sound therapy and is employed throughout the world to help with problems of listening, auditory processing, speech, learning, attention, and Autism.