PTSD Treatment Center in Scottsdale
At Redefine Wellness & Treatment, we offer PTSD treatment programs for combat and military trauma, complex PTSD, childhood trauma, sexual trauma, single-incident PTSD, and first responder PTSD.
- Joint Commission Accredited
- Daily Neurofeedback
- Root-Cause Treatment
- Body + Brain + Mind Approach
- Curated PTSD Programs
Specialized PTSD Treatment in Scottsdale, Arizona
- Process Trauma Without Retelling It EMDR, Brainspotting, and IFS process traumatic memories without requiring you to narrate every detail.
- Map What Changed in Your Brain qEEG shows exactly where PTSD disrupted your neural pathways. Neurofeedback targets those patterns directly.
- Treat the Body, Not Just the Mind Somatic experiencing, breathwork, and PEMF address the freeze response and hypervigilance that talk therapy misses.
- More Than an Hour a Week PHP and IOP run 5-6 hours daily. When weekly sessions aren't enough, intensive programming builds momentum.
Every treatment plan here starts with assessment, not assumptions. What works for one person’s PTSD won’t work for another, and we build around that from day one.
- Levels of Care
PTSD Treatment at Every Level of Care
Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)
PHP is for PTSD that's running your daily life. Flashbacks disrupting work, hypervigilance making it hard to leave the house, sleep that hasn't felt safe in months. When weekly therapy isn't producing lasting change or you've tried multiple treatments without resolution, this level of structure and frequency is what PTSD often requires. Treatment runs 5 days per week, 5–6 hours daily, for 4–8 weeks.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
IOP provides structured PTSD treatment while you maintain work, family, and daily responsibilities. This level works when symptoms are manageable but still interfering with quality of life, or as a step-down from PHP once acute symptoms have stabilized. Treatment runs 3 days per week, 3–4 hours per session, with morning or afternoon scheduling options available.
Private Therapeutic Retreats
Our private retreats offer concentrated, individualized PTSD treatment for those who need intensive intervention but can't commit to ongoing weekly programming. Retreats are fully customized to your clinical needs and schedule, ranging from 3-day intensives to week-long immersions. Ideal for veterans, first responders, executives, or anyone traveling to Scottsdale specifically for trauma treatment.
Single-Incident PTSD
This is what most people picture when they hear "PTSD." One event. A car accident, an assault, a natural disaster, witnessing something you weren't supposed to see. And your nervous system never fully came back from it. You know the danger is over. Your body doesn't. The flashbacks, the jumpiness, the way certain sounds or smells put you right back there. That's not a memory problem. It's your brain still running the emergency broadcast.
Common Symptoms
- Flashbacks
- Nightmares
- Hypervigilance
- Exaggerated startle response
- Avoidance of reminders
- Emotional numbness
- Sleep disruption
How We Treat Single-Incident PTSD at Redefine
Single-incident trauma tends to respond well when treatment is actually targeted, which sounds obvious but isn't how most programs work. We start with qEEG brain mapping to see exactly where your brain is stuck in threat mode, then build a plan around what the data shows. Not a general anxiety protocol. Not a one-size trauma track. EMDR is often the primary processing tool here because it works directly with how the traumatic memory is stored. By the second or third week, most clients notice the flashbacks losing their charge. Not gone, necessarily. But quieter. Less in control.
Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
Complex PTSD develops from prolonged or repeated trauma. Situations where you couldn't escape. An abusive relationship that lasted years. A childhood where the people who were supposed to protect you were the source of harm. It shows up differently than single-event trauma. On top of flashbacks and hypervigilance, there's a deep disruption to how you see yourself, how you manage emotions, and how you connect with other people. That last part is what makes it so isolating.
Common Symptoms
- Emotional flooding
- Chronic shame
- Difficulty trusting others
- Feeling permanently damaged
- Relationship instability
- Emotional shutdown
- Flashbacks
- Dissociation
How We Treat Complex PTSD at Redefine
For a long time, the clinical assumption was that complex PTSD needed months of stabilization before any real trauma work could start. Newer research challenges that, and honestly, so does what we see in practice. Internal Family Systems (IFS) is central to how we work with C-PTSD. It addresses the protective parts that developed during prolonged trauma. The part that shuts down. The part that people-pleases. The part that rages. Those aren't problems. They're adaptations that made sense at the time. Treatment helps them update. And the intensive format matters here more than people expect. Daily contact means the therapeutic relationship actually builds instead of resetting every seven days.
Combat & Military PTSD
Military PTSD carries its own weight. The trauma isn't always one firefight or one explosion. It's the cumulative exposure, the moral injuries, the things you had to do or couldn't stop from happening. Add in a culture that treats asking for help as weakness, and most veterans wait years before seeking treatment. By then, the hypervigilance that kept you alive overseas is destroying your relationships at home. The anger comes out of nowhere. Sleep hasn't been right since deployment.
Common Symptoms
- Hypervigilance
- Explosive anger
- Severe insomnia
- Emotional withdrawal
- Moral injury
- Substance use
- Distrust of authority
How We Treat Combat PTSD at Redefine
Here's the part that frustrates most veterans: combat PTSD has lower recovery rates in standard weekly therapy than almost every other trauma type. Not because it's harder to treat. Because once a week isn't enough contact to break through years of accumulated exposure. Our PHP runs daily. EMDR and prolonged exposure happen multiple times per week, and the structure is designed so you're not white-knuckling it between appointments. Research on intensive formats for military populations keeps pointing to the same thing: increase the dose, completion rates go up, outcomes improve. We also don't skip over moral injury. The guilt, the things that don't fit on a checklist. By the third or fourth week, that's usually where the real work is.
Dissociative PTSD
Dissociative PTSD is the brain's way of turning down the volume when the trauma signal is too loud. Instead of the classic fight-or-flight response, your system shuts down. You feel detached from your own body, like you're watching your life from behind glass. Time goes missing. You zone out in the middle of conversations and can't explain where you went. People around you think you're fine because you look calm. You're not calm. You're somewhere else entirely.
Common Symptoms
- Depersonalization
- Derealization
- Memory gaps
- Emotional blunting
- Feeling unreal
- Zoning out under stress
- Identity confusion
How We Treat Dissociative PTSD at Redefine
Dissociation isn't avoidance. It's a neurological override. The prefrontal cortex actively suppresses the brain's emotional processing centers, which is why you can look calm on the outside while being completely gone on the inside. And that changes everything about how treatment needs to work. You can't process trauma if your system shuts down the moment you get close to it. So the first goal, the real first goal, is widening the window of tolerance. Body-based interventions help rebuild that capacity slowly. Once you can stay present without flooding or checking out, then the deeper processing starts. We're not in a rush with this one. Rushing it backfires. But staying shallow forever doesn't help either.
Developmental Trauma
When trauma happens during childhood (abuse, neglect, a parent who was unpredictable or emotionally unavailable) it doesn't just leave memories. It shapes how the brain develops. The attachment system, the stress response, the capacity to regulate emotions: all of it gets built on an unstable foundation. You might not even identify it as trauma because it was just... how things were. But the difficulty with relationships, the emotional overwhelm, the sense that something is fundamentally wrong with you. That's the architecture of early trauma showing up in your adult life.
Common Symptoms
- Chronic self-blame
- Attachment difficulties
- Emotional dysregulation
- People-pleasing
- Hypervigilance to rejection
- Difficulty with boundaries
- Toxic shame
How We Treat Developmental Trauma at Redefine
This one's different because the trauma didn't happen to a formed brain. It shaped how the brain grew. Attachment, stress regulation, the basic capacity to feel safe with another person. All of it got wired under conditions that weren't safe. So treatment can't just target a memory. It has to work with patterns that have been running since before you had language for them. IFS is especially effective here because it meets those childhood parts without trying to fix or get rid of them. The fawner. The perfectionist. The one that disappears. They made sense once. Treatment helps them learn they don't have to run things anymore. And the daily structure of our program matters more than you'd think. Showing up and being consistently met, that's not just logistics. For attachment injury, it's actually part of the treatment.
First Responder PTSD
Police officers, firefighters, paramedics, ER nurses. The job requires you to run toward what everyone else runs from. Over time, the accumulation of critical incidents, the things you've seen on the worst days of other people's lives, starts to change you. The department tells you to debrief and move on. Your training says compartmentalize. But the images don't stay compartmentalized. They show up at 2 a.m. They show up when your kid screams. They show up in the grocery store for no reason at all.
Common Symptoms
- Intrusive images
- Emotional detachment
- Irritability and anger
- Increased substance use
- Sleep disturbance
- Cynicism
- Difficulty "switching off"
How We Treat First Responder PTSD at Redefine
Debriefing doesn't work for cumulative exposure. The research on that is settled. What works is structured processing of the critical incidents stuck on replay, combined with direct nervous system regulation for the load your body has been carrying. EMDR clears the specific images and sounds. The ones at 2 a.m. The ones in the grocery store. Our IOP runs three days a week, built specifically for people still on the job. Structured enough to make real progress, flexible enough that you don't have to explain a medical leave. Nobody here is going to hand you a feelings wheel and call it treatment.
Medical Trauma PTSD
A traumatic diagnosis. A surgery that went wrong. Waking up in the ICU. A complicated birth. Medical trauma is under-recognized because the event that caused it was supposed to help you. People around you say "at least you survived" or "the treatment worked," and that makes it harder to name what's actually happening. That hospitals now trigger panic, that you avoid medical appointments, that the smell of antiseptic puts you right back in that room. The body remembers what the medical chart doesn't record.
Common Symptoms
- Medical avoidance
- Panic in clinical settings
- Intrusive medical memories
- Health hypervigilance
- Body disconnection
- Sleep disruption
How We Treat Medical Trauma at Redefine
Talk therapy alone has a hard time reaching this one. Medical trauma lives in the body in a specific way. The positions you were held in. The sensations you couldn't escape. Moments you weren't fully conscious for. Somatic experiencing goes directly to where the trauma is stored and helps your body finish the stress responses it couldn't complete during the medical event. The fight or flight that had nowhere to go while you were on a table. EMDR processes the memories without requiring you to narrate every detail, which matters because sometimes the details are fragmented anyway. And then there's the part people don't talk about enough: rebuilding a relationship with your own body after something medical broke that trust. That's slower work. But it's the part that lets you walk into a doctor's office again without your whole system going into alarm.
Intimate Partner Violence PTSD
The trauma from an abusive relationship doesn't end when the relationship does. Your nervous system learned to read micro-expressions, to anticipate mood shifts, to brace for what's coming. Now you're safe, but you still flinch when someone raises their voice. You still over-explain. You still can't fully relax in your own home. The hypervigilance that once protected you is now the thing keeping you stuck. And the shame around it makes it harder to ask for help, because part of you still believes you should have left sooner.
Common Symptoms
- Flinching at sudden movements
- Difficulty trusting new partners
- Hypervigilance to mood shifts
- Chronic self-blame
- Sleep disturbance
- Emotional numbness
- People-pleasing patterns
How We Treat IPV-Related PTSD at Redefine
Two systems get rewired at once with intimate partner violence: threat response and attachment. The person who was supposed to be safe became the danger, and that creates a kind of confusion that standard PTSD protocols don't always know what to do with. Brainspotting and EMDR process the traumatic memories. IFS works with the parts the relationship built. The people-pleaser. The hypervigilant scanner. The one that freezes. Group therapy does something individual sessions can't, though. Being around other people who understand the specific shame of IPV, who don't need you to justify why you stayed. That breaks something open. Most clients say group is the part they dreaded most and the part that changed the most.
Learn more about our trauma treatment approachDelayed-Onset PTSD
Sometimes PTSD doesn't show up right away. The event happens, you push through, and for months or even years you seem fine. Then something shifts. A life transition, a new stressor, a smell or a sound you hadn't encountered since it happened. And suddenly your nervous system starts playing catch-up on something you thought was behind you. This is confusing because the timeline doesn't make sense. Why now? You were handling it. But "handling it" and "processing it" aren't the same thing, and your brain eventually runs out of bandwidth to keep it buried.
Common Symptoms
- Sudden onset of flashbacks
- Unexpected emotional reactions
- Sleep disruption after period of stability
- New anxiety or hypervigilance
- Confusion about timing
- Withdrawal from activities
How We Treat Delayed-Onset PTSD at Redefine
The good news, if there is good news, is that delayed-onset PTSD often responds well to treatment once it's identified. The trauma memory is intact. Your system just wasn't ready to deal with it before. Treatment follows a similar path to single-incident PTSD, but with extra attention to what triggered the onset now. Understanding that trigger isn't just intellectual curiosity. It tells us which neural pathways are involved and what your system needs to feel safe enough to process what it's been holding. Most people with delayed onset feel gaslit by their own timeline. Part of treatment is just naming that clearly: this is real, and the delay doesn't make it less valid.
Sexual Trauma PTSD
Sexual trauma changes your relationship with your own body. Not metaphorically. The way you hold yourself, what triggers a freeze response, how you react to being touched even by people you trust. And because the trauma happened in the body, the body keeps score in very specific ways. You might dissociate during intimacy. Or avoid it entirely. Or not feel anything at all and wonder what's wrong with you. Nothing is wrong with you. Your nervous system learned something during the assault, and it hasn't gotten the update that it's over.
Common Symptoms
- Flashbacks during intimacy
- Body disconnection
- Shame and self-blame
- Avoidance of touch
- Hypervigilance around others
- Difficulty with trust
- Emotional numbing
- Sleep disturbance
How We Treat Sexual Trauma PTSD at Redefine
Consent and pacing aren't just clinical concepts here. They're how every session works. You decide what gets processed and when. EMDR and Brainspotting allow trauma processing without requiring detailed verbal retelling, which matters when the memories are ones you don't want to narrate out loud. Body-based work helps rebuild a sense of safety and ownership in your own skin, but it's introduced at your pace, not ours. The shame piece is where group can be unexpectedly powerful. Not because anyone shares details. Because realizing other people carry the same weight, that alone changes something. Most clients say the hardest part was walking in the first time. After that, it gets easier to stay.
Accident-Related PTSD
Car wrecks. Falls. Industrial injuries. Near-drownings. The event itself might have lasted seconds, but the replay runs on a loop that doesn't stop. You're driving the same stretch of highway and your hands start shaking before you consciously remember why. Or you're fine for weeks, then a sound, a swerve, the screech of brakes in a parking lot, and you're back in the moment like no time has passed. People around you think you should be over it because you walked away. You did walk away. Your nervous system didn't.
Common Symptoms
- Flashbacks triggered by driving or similar settings
- Avoidance of accident-related locations
- Startle response to sudden sounds
- Intrusive replays of the event
- Sleep disruption and nightmares
- Physical pain without medical cause
- Irritability and emotional reactivity
How We Treat Accident-Related PTSD at Redefine
Accident trauma usually has a clear before-and-after, which actually makes it one of the more treatable forms of PTSD. The memory is specific. The trigger chain is identifiable. EMDR works fast here because there's typically one event to process, not a web of experiences. Where it gets complicated is the body. If you were injured, your physical recovery and your trauma recovery are tangled together, and pain can retrigger the memory loop without you realizing why. We address both tracks. The nervous system piece, getting your body to stop bracing for the next impact. And the memory piece, so the flashbacks lose their charge. Most people see a measurable shift in the first few weeks. Not because accident trauma is simple. Because it's focused.
Vicarious & Secondary Trauma
You don't have to be the one it happened to. Therapists, social workers, nurses, caregivers, parents of traumatized children. Absorbing other people's trauma over time changes your nervous system the same way direct exposure can. You start having intrusive thoughts about their stories. You lose sleep. You get cynical, or numb, or both. And the hardest part is that you feel like you don't have the right to call it trauma because "it didn't happen to me." It did happen to you. Just differently.
Common Symptoms
- Intrusive images from others' trauma
- Emotional exhaustion
- Cynicism or hopelessness
- Hypervigilance
- Difficulty separating work and life
- Guilt about own distress
- Withdrawal from relationships
How We Treat Vicarious Trauma at Redefine
Vicarious trauma often gets dismissed as burnout. It's not. Burnout is exhaustion. Vicarious trauma is a nervous system that absorbed too much without adequate discharge, and now it's running the same threat patterns as direct-exposure PTSD. Treatment focuses on clearing the accumulated load and rebuilding the capacity to be present without absorbing. Regulation-focused interventions are the backbone here. Processing the specific images or stories that got stuck follows once your system has room for it. We see a lot of healthcare professionals and therapists in this category, and the IOP format works because it doesn't require stepping away from a career that's probably also part of your identity.
Birth & Perinatal Trauma
A birth that went wrong. An emergency C-section. Hemorrhaging. A NICU stay. Your baby not breathing. These are events that happen in what's supposed to be the happiest moment of your life, which makes it incredibly hard to talk about. Everyone wants to celebrate the baby. Nobody asks how you're doing. Not really. And you're left holding flashbacks of the delivery room, flinching at medical appointments, unable to explain why you can't stop crying when everything supposedly turned out fine. It turned out fine for the baby. It didn't turn out fine for your nervous system.
Common Symptoms
- Flashbacks to delivery
- Avoidance of medical settings
- Difficulty bonding
- Fear of subsequent pregnancies
- Intrusive images
- Guilt and shame
- Hypervigilance about baby's health
How We Treat Birth Trauma at Redefine
Birth trauma sits at the intersection of medical trauma and a massive identity shift, which is why generic PTSD treatment often misses the mark. The trauma processing piece, clearing the specific delivery memories, works best with EMDR because it doesn't require reliving the event in detail. But treatment also has to account for the bonding disruption, the guilt about not feeling the way you're "supposed to," and the physical recovery that's happening simultaneously. We work at the nervous system level to help your body stop associating medical environments with danger. The goal isn't just reducing flashbacks. It's being able to be present with your baby without your system hijacking the moment.
Grief-Related Trauma
Not all grief becomes trauma. But sudden loss, violent loss, witnessing a death, finding the body. That's a different animal. The grief gets tangled with the traumatic images, and you can't access the sadness because the horror is in the way. People tell you it takes time. And they're right about grief. But the trauma part doesn't resolve with time. It gets louder. You replay the phone call. The hospital room. The last conversation you didn't know was the last one. And you can't figure out if you're grieving or panicking because most days it feels like both at once.
Common Symptoms
- Intrusive images of the death
- Inability to access normal grief
- Guilt (survivor's, could-have-prevented)
- Avoidance of reminders
- Emotional numbness
- Sleep disruption
- Anger without clear target
How We Treat Grief-Related Trauma at Redefine
The trauma has to be cleared before the grief can move. That's the piece most grief support misses. If the nervous system is stuck on the traumatic images, no amount of processing the loss will help because your brain can't get past the horror to reach the sadness underneath. We clear the trauma layer first. Once that's done, the grief becomes accessible in a way it couldn't be before. That's when the real grieving starts, and it's a different experience entirely. Less frantic. Still painful, obviously. But the kind of painful that actually moves somewhere instead of looping.
Racial Trauma
Racial trauma isn't always one event. It's the accumulation. The microaggressions that aren't micro. The overt incidents that get minimized. The constant vigilance of navigating spaces where your safety depends on how others perceive you. Over time, that accumulation produces the same nervous system patterns as other forms of PTSD: hypervigilance, emotional exhaustion, intrusive thoughts, avoidance. And it's compounded by the fact that the source of threat doesn't go away. It's structural. It's in your workplace, your neighborhood, the news. The nervous system never gets the "all clear" signal.
Common Symptoms
- Hypervigilance in public spaces
- Emotional exhaustion
- Anger and frustration
- Distrust of institutions
- Avoidance of certain environments
- Intrusive thoughts about incidents
- Physical tension
How We Treat Racial Trauma at Redefine
Racial trauma is ongoing, which means treatment can't pretend there's a single event to process and move past. The work is more about building nervous system capacity to handle continued exposure without it accumulating the way it has been. Regulation-focused interventions help your body discharge what it's been holding. Processing specific incidents that are stuck clears space. And the framing matters here. We don't treat racial trauma as something wrong with you. It's a normal nervous system response to abnormal conditions. Treatment helps you carry it differently. Not pretend it doesn't exist. That distinction changes everything about how the work feels.
"When clients talk about reoccurring patterns they seem to not have a lot of choices about, it's usually an indication of an underlying wounding. That wound needs to be explored before lasting change can take place."
Brenna Gonzales, LPC, SEP, CMAT
Trauma-Focused Therapist
- Our Approach
How We Treat PTSD at Redefine
Brain-Based Interventions
PTSD rewires threat-detection circuits. The amygdala stays hyperactive, the prefrontal cortex goes quiet, and your brain treats safe situations like dangerous ones. qEEG brain mapping shows us exactly where that dysregulation lives. Neurofeedback trains the brain to downregulate those overactive pathways directly, not through willpower or insight, but through repeated exposure to its own corrected patterns.
Nervous System Regulation
Trauma locks the autonomic nervous system into patterns it can't shift on its own. Some people stay stuck in hyperarousal, scanning for threats constantly. Others collapse into shutdown and numbness. Most cycle between both. Somatic therapies work with the body directly to release what's been held, restore regulation, and widen the window of tolerance so the nervous system stops defaulting to survival mode.
Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
CBT and DBT build the skill set that keeps recovery stable. Cognitive processing helps untangle the beliefs PTSD creates: that the world is permanently unsafe, that you should have prevented it, that something is fundamentally broken in you. DBT adds distress tolerance and emotional regulation for when the intensity spikes. ACT works on the avoidance patterns that shrink your life around the trauma.
Trauma Processing & Parts Work
This is the part that actually resolves PTSD, not just manages it. EMDR and Brainspotting process traumatic memories so they lose their emotional charge without requiring you to retell the story in detail. IFS works with the protective parts that formed around the trauma: the hypervigilant one, the numb one, the one that avoids. Processing doesn't erase what happened. It changes how your brain stores it.
- Types of PTSD
What Type of PTSD Are You Dealing With?
The Treatment Process
Consultation
Free, confidential call to discuss your needs
Assessment
In-depth evaluation and brain mapping
Care Plan
Personalized treatment tailored to your PTSD
Treatment
Active work with 20+ modalities
Integration
Skills for lasting change in daily life
Real Connection, Support, & Healing
Our Scottsdale outpatient programs combine innovative neuroscience with proven therapeutic approaches.
- Living With PTSD
Signs You May Benefit from PTSD Treatment
- Sleep is a problem every night. Nightmares wake you at 3 a.m. You stay up too late because being unconscious feels unsafe.
- You're avoiding more than you realize. Certain routes, people, conversations. Your world got smaller and you stopped noticing.
- Work is suffering. You reread the same paragraph four times. A coworker raises their voice and you're somewhere else entirely.
- Relationships feel impossible. You're pushing people away or clinging too hard. The people closest to you keep saying you've changed.
- Your body won't calm down. Jaw clenched, shoulders up, startle response on a hair trigger. Your body is still acting like the threat is happening now.
- You're managing it with things that aren't working. Alcohol to sleep, scrolling until 2 a.m., anything to avoid being alone with your thoughts.
- Therapy helped — to a point. You made progress, then hit a wall. Talking about it week after week started feeling like reopening the wound without closing it.
If several of these sound familiar, intensive treatment might be the shift you need.
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- Giving You The Answers You Need
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I know if I need more than weekly therapy for PTSD?
If you’ve been in therapy for months and still can’t sleep, still avoid the same things, or still feel stuck in survival mode, that’s not a failure. It usually means the nervous system needs more contact hours to shift. Intensive programs give you 5-6 hours a day instead of one hour a week, which lets treatment build momentum instead of resetting between sessions.
Will I have to talk about what happened in detail?
What's the difference between PHP and IOP for PTSD?
PHP runs 5 days a week, 5-6 hours daily, and includes individual therapy 3-4 times per week plus daily neurofeedback. IOP is 3 days a week, 3-4 hours, and works well as a step-down from PHP or for people who need flexibility around work. Your assessment determines which level fits where you are right now.
What if I have PTSD along with depression or substance use?
Does insurance cover intensive PTSD treatment?
Our Mission
At Redefine Wellness and Treatment, we empower healing by uniting mind, body, and spirit. Using trauma-informed therapies, neuroscience, and holistic practices, we deliver personalized care that fosters resilience, growth, and lasting transformation.
Our Vision
We aspire to create a world where access to transformative healing is available to all, empowering people to lead fulfilling, balanced lives.
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The research is clear: PTSD responds well to targeted, evidence-based treatment. These numbers come from peer-reviewed clinical trials and meta-analyses.
For non-military populations, evidence-based trauma-focused therapies produce remission rates between 65% and 86%. That means the majority of people who complete treatment no longer meet diagnostic criteria for PTSD.
In a meta-analysis of neurofeedback trials, 79.3% of participants in the neurofeedback group no longer met diagnostic criteria for PTSD after treatment, compared to 24.4% in control groups. Particularly effective for chronic and treatment-resistant cases.
Intensive, multimodal treatment programs report dropout rates of just 0 to 5%, compared to up to 40% for standard weekly therapy. The concentrated format builds momentum and removes the gaps where people lose traction.
92% Remission With Parts-Based Therapy
A pilot study of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy for adults with PTSD from multiple childhood traumas found that 92% of participants no longer met PTSD criteria at one-month follow-up, with very large effect sizes for symptom reduction (d = -4.46 on the CAPS). The study also showed significant decreases in dissociation, somatization, and affect dysregulation.
Source: Hodgdon et al., 2022, Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma
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