Photo report of the Centro Vitaliza: avant-garde psychology from Navarra

The team of professionals who work in Vitalizes We carry out our work from a therapeutic approach with which we are fully committed and that includes three phases.

Vitalize: the three phases of therapy

We understand that the first challenge when we begin a relationship with the people who come to our center is to initiate a bond with them that allows us to walk together, While this bond is being forged, we will try to know and understand as well as possible the history of the person who comes to our center and the current moment for which goes through. This moment would comprise the Valuation phase.

After this first meeting, we believe that it is essential to provide our patients with the necessary tools to return to the minimum balance that allows them to re-develop their day to day with a certain normality and to help them position themselves to be able to work from the necessary stability the aspects of their experience that have taken them out of their window of tolerance.

This is where the intermediate phase of Regulation and Stabilization enters.

. When the person has developed the ability to remain sufficiently regulated, we will be able to work and elaborate all the experiences of your story that may be generating disturbance in your Present. Here we would enter the final phase of Integration.

Through the phases described and transversally to them, our intervention fits into a therapeutic and complementary triangle, in which the Neurofeedback, the Mindfulness and the EMDR.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness or Mindfulness, aims to use and expand the brain's natural capacity for self-perception, and consequently learn to live the present moment fully. We use mindfulness as an essential therapeutic tool that extends throughout all of Vitaliza's work.

From the very beginning of psychology, this ability of people's minds to reflect on itself, to focus on its own functioning and thus be able to tune into the emotions and thoughts that occur within us has been at the center of the debate among psychologists and has been essential in all psychotherapeutic and growth models personal.

On the other hand, from areas as far removed from psychology as are many schools of oriental meditation, especially within buddhism, the development of this capacity for self-awareness in people has been the central axis of their knowledge.

Neurofeedback

The most recent lines of research in this field have shown that the brain is incredibly plastic and it harbors the ability to regenerate itself. It is the most adaptable organ in our system. Therefore, today we can say that "the brain can be trained".

The team of psychologists that make up Vitaliza has extensive training and experience in the clinical use of neurofeedback. Neurofeedback is a type of biological feedback that directly affects brain function. It consists of a record of brain electrical activity (electroencephalogram). The electroencephalographic signal, once digitally analyzed, allows us to observe the general activity of the brain and provides us with data on the functioning and connections between different brain areas.

Neurofeedback allows us, through the processing of the electrical signals of the encephalogram, design individualized treatment programs, reinforce certain types of activity and inhibit others.

The procedure is simple. Our professionals observe the way in which the brain of the person works at a specific moment. During training, the person looks at a screen where moving images appear and / or hears different sounds. These images or sounds vary (by way of reward or reinforcement) to the extent that brain of the person is producing specific brain wave amplitudes and / or frequencies. In this way, the person learns to use his brain more efficiently.

With neurofeedback we try to attack those problems that have to do with dysregulations in the activity of the cerebral cortex; anxiety and mood disorders, conduct disorders, sleep problems, learning difficulties, etc.

EMDR

EMDR is an integrative psychotherapy that has Adaptive Information Processing as a reference for the conceptualization of treatment (PAI).

The work of our expert EMDR professionals is based on understanding the effect of dysregulatory and traumatic life experiences on health and in the processing of these experiences through structured protocols that include different forms of stimulation bilateral. EMDR therapy is endorsed by the World Health Organization and the International Clinical Guidelines for the trauma treatment.

EMDR is a patient-centered therapy that makes it easy for our psychologists to stimulate the healing tools inherent in the subject. It puts the information processing system into operation. The EMDR model focuses on the physiological activation that appears together with the negative feelings, emotions and beliefs under the symptoms that disturb the patient.

Finally, highlight something that, as professionals and as a team, we consider of special importance. Beyond our work method and the tools we use in our day to day, The professionals that make up Vitaliza carry warmth, support and respect for the people we serve in the DNA of our work. We believe that the essence of restorative relationships lies in the forging of safe and sincere bonds where the people to whom we accompany them to rediscover being looked at in a different way and in this way they start again through their own history and the world that surrounds.