Mershona Parshall

Ms.Mershona Parshall Family Therapy

Rather than depending on caring adults to provide warmth and safety, a survival driven child is motivated to get his or her needs met in ways that exclude relationships. Such children are often highly dys-regulated and attempt to manage internal fear states by exerting an inordinate amount of control onto their environment. This behavior may be viewed as a child’s natural reaction to survival stress as the world is perceived as unsafe and uncaring.
Attachment trauma is not always due to maltreatment. Failures in attachment may also be situational, such as an infant who is medically fragile and is hospitalized in his or her first months of life. In addition, there are always additional factors that bear on a child’s attachment resources. These include genetic factors, natural resilience, temperament, and mitigating buffers that may offer some protection against the detrimental effects of attachment trauma. An example of a buffer may be a loving grandparent.

Neurofeedback and Peak Performance

Athletes, musicians, golfers, meditators, executives, and artists are all benefiting from NFB. Neurofeedback improves performance by optimizing the trainee's capacity to focus, remain calm under stressful challenges, and think more creatively from moment to moment. What is called "the zone" is just this capacity to remain calm and focused when performing a task, whether it is on the golf course or in the boardroom. Neurofeedback is being used by world class athletes and performers for performance optimization.

Ms.Mershona Parshall Contact :Many times, art making allows us to express feelings that are otherwise painful or difficult to verbalize. Here is a personal example of grief over the loss of a pet through painting.

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Attachment and Bonding Basics
Developmental Trauma
Primary Trauma: Failures in Attachment
Secondary Trauma: Physical, sexual, emotional abuse
Loss, Separation, Grief and Attachment
Treatment of Developmental Trauma
The Cutting Edge
ATTACHMENT AND BONDING BASICS
John Bowlby, considered the father of attachment theory, defined attachment as the reciprocal process between two individuals who form an enduring affectual bond. He considered attachment and bonding to be an innate biological need of the infant. From Bowlbys original work to more recent leaders in the attachment field, the importance of attachment and bonding to healthy human functioning cannot be understated.
In the last decade, neuroscience has provided a deeper understanding of attachment and brain development. It is now possible to see the detrimental effects of neglect on the developing brains of children in comparison to nurtured children through imaging technologies. This has served to further demonstrate the importance of the attachment process for healthy brain development. Furthermore, many people believe that attachment and bonding actually begins in utero where the developing fetus somatically experiences the heartbeat, sounds, rhythms, and biopsychological states of the biological mother.
Bowlby identified the following as important elements to forming a secure attachment.

How does neurofeedback work?

The neurofeedback trainee sits in a comfortable chair with a few sensors on the head and ears. The trainee listens to music or watches a DVD while the computer provides visual and auditory feedback to the brain in the form of very brief interruptions. Trainees enjoy the training and usually report a feeling of calm and well being following a session. Training effects continue after the session is over and become more long lasting with additional training. Each session lasts about 50 minutes.

Ms.Mershona Parshall Contact : ABOUT / CONTACT US
Mershona Parshall is an Independently Licensed Social Worker- Supervisor and Board Certified Registered Art Therapist. Ms. Parshall is licensed through the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and LMFT Board. She has had a private practice since 2000 in Northeast Ohio, outside of Cleveland.

Ms. Parshall began working in the mental health field in the early 80's after a successful career as a theater and studio artist. Following a long time interest in art therapy, she received a Masters Degree in art therapy and expressive arts therapies in 1982. Ms. Parshall worked in youth at risk programs, group homes for Native American youth, a psychiatric hospital, and for non-profit mental health agencies until 2000. She developed and led outdoor personal growth experiential education workshops for youth and adults, wilderness trips, expressive arts workshops for adults, intensive mask making workshops, and Rites of Passage for adolescent girls and adults throughout the 1980's.

Mershona Parshall Grief And Loss Issues What is Neurofeedback (AKA) EEG Biofeedback?

Neurofeedback (NFB) is an information feedback system using computer technology to teach the brain optimization skills by influencing the brain waves* through auditory and visual feedback. Neurofeedback is safe, non-invasive, and drug free.

NeurOptimal is a holistic and non-linear approach to NFB training. NeurOptimal NFB provides simultaneous feedback to a wide spectrum of frequencies, dynamically providing the central nervous system (CNS) immediate feedback on what it has just done. The CNS uses this information to reorganize in ways that improves the brain's dynamic ability to be more resilient, efficient, and stable. NeurOptimal NFB trainees consistently report improved functioning in many areas as well as feeling happier. Neurofeedback is an excellent tool for re-normalization and improving self-regulation for individuals who have been traumatized or who have challenges with their moods, thoughts, or behaviors.

Neurofeedback is an exciting and rapidly evolving field. Research continues to emerge and consistently supports the efficacy of neurofeedback. (see www.isnr.org for research)

*What are brain waves?

Brain waves are the visual representation of the electrical activity of the brain (EEG). Brainwaves are distinguished by their frequency (cycles per second) and amplitude (power). Brain waves generate various brain states for accomplishing any task from sleeping to intense concentration. Below are typical descriptions of some brain waves and states associated with those brain waves.

1. Delta (0-4 Hz) is associated with detached awareness, healing, and sleep.
2. Theta (4-7 Hz) is associated with meditation, intuition and memory.
3. Alpha (7-12Hz) is associated with relaxation, visualization, and creativity.
4. Beta (12-30 Hz) is associated with alertness, concentration, and cognition.

Mershona Parshall Art Therapy Attachment and Bonding Basics
Developmental Trauma
Primary Trauma: Failures in Attachment
Secondary Trauma: Physical, sexual, emotional abuse
Loss, Separation, Grief and Attachment
Treatment of Developmental Trauma
The Cutting Edge
ATTACHMENT AND BONDING BASICS
John Bowlby, considered the father of attachment theory, defined attachment as the reciprocal process between two individuals who form an enduring affectual bond. He considered attachment and bonding to be an innate biological need of the infant. From Bowlbys original work to more recent leaders in the attachment field, the importance of attachment and bonding to healthy human functioning cannot be understated.
In the last decade, neuroscience has provided a deeper understanding of attachment and brain development. It is now possible to see the detrimental effects of neglect on the developing brains of children in comparison to nurtured children through imaging technologies. This has served to further demonstrate the importance of the attachment process for healthy brain development. Furthermore, many people believe that attachment and bonding actually begins in utero where the developing fetus somatically experiences the heartbeat, sounds, rhythms, and biopsychological states of the biological mother.
Bowlby identified the following as important elements to forming a secure attachment.

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