Mershona Parshall

Mershona Parshall Training

Neurofeedback for Children with Developmental Trauma, Developmental Delays, Learning Problems, Autism, and Attachment Disorder

Neurofeedback is being used as a tool to help children with more intractable and serious issues. These include symptoms associated with Aspergers, Autism, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Bi-polar Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. When this is the situation, parents can expect that their child will require an extended NFB program. It may be more economical and efficient for parents to begin treatment in the office and then transition to a home training program providing the caregivers have basic computer skills. For highly motivated and computer literate parents, home training may be initiated through long distance coaching.

Prior to my involvement in mental health, I worked as a professional studio and theater artist. In addition, I created, produced and performed in numerous multi-media performance art pieces in California and New Mexico. For many years I led intensive mask making workshops that were highly popular in the southwest. I used my art and expressive arts therapy skills to facilitate out door experiential workshops. Most recently I was artistic director for the "Let Rachel Speak" production performed in Cleveland, Ohio.

As an art therapist, I work with people of all ages and with individuals, couples, families, and groups. I am available for workshops that combine my years of experience in the arts, my knowledge of brain states, creativity and healing.

Ms.Mershona Parshall Family Therapy :Mask making is an excellent example of an expressive arts therapy process involving the creation of a personal mask, story telling, the expression of the mask through drama, movement and music. Such experiences can be extremely powerful, integrative, and healing.

Mershona Parshall Neurofeedback

Below is a sampling of the type of symptoms that have been observed in children with primary attachment trauma:
• Difficulty regulating strong affect.
• Chronic hyperarousal, hypoarousal or a combination of both.
• A false self (superficiality) used to get needs met rather than an authentic ability to ask, give and take in relationships.
• Dysregulated sleep patterns.
• Intense insecurity masked by precocious behavior.
• Excessive need to control the environment out of fear.
• Cognitive distortions, e.g., externalizing blame; inability to perceive the environment accurately.
• Difficulty understanding cause and effect.
• Disinterest in modeling self after the parent or seeking parental approval.
• Perceiving self as victim; likes to be rescued by strangers.
• Poor conscience development, lack of empathy for other living beings.
• Learning problems, language problems.
• Behavior that may alternate between regressive and overly self-reliant.
• Inability to make friends.
• Rejection of parents, will not allow parent to nurture him or her; cannot trust adults.
• Unable to make friends, lack of meaningful relationships with others.
Failures in attachment are also complicated by exposure to neurotoxins in utero, e.g., alcohol, drugs, poor nutrition of the mother, excessive maternal stress, mother’s exposure to domestic violence during gestation.

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Personal Statement

I believe that humanity is at a crossroads and a shift needs to occur from an ego psychology where the focus is on the "I" to an eco psychology where the focus is on the "We". We live in a society that is increasingly suffering from a sort of relationship deficit disorder. The scope of disconnect is not only experienced person to person but also between person and the natural world. The symptoms of relational deficits are seen in the deterioration of human attachment relationships and in the careless destruction of the natural environment.

Our children and grandchildren deserve a world that is safe, nurturing and environmentally healthy. As we become a global community, it is ever more important to remember that we are all interconnected. Luis Espinoza says it beautifully…."we are all trees in the same wood, we all drink from the same fountain, we all share the same cosmic breath, life is a community of hearts."

Ya es el tiempo para abrir tu corazon. - Alice Walker

Dedicated to the memory of my sister, Deborah Parshall

Mershona Parshall Attachment And Bonding Therapy : TREATMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA
Treatment of developmental trauma continues to evolve as neuroscience and treatment models mature. Not that long ago the public was unaware of interventions such as neurofeedback, EMDR or neuro-reorganization. These interventions are becoming more accepted as they prove to be effective tools for helping children heal. Additionally, the work of Bruce Perry, MD and his Neurosequential Developmental Model is gaining attention for treating childhood
trauma. Perry’s model contains many of the elements that have long been promoted by professionals working with developmental trauma, namely, a relational model of therapy that integrates attachment theory, somatic psychotherapies and expressive arts therapies. Some examples are nurturing touch, art therapy, movement, music, and even infant massage.
To address childhood developmental trauma in treatment, relational treatment models that include the primary caregivers are strongly recommended. Thus, the primary caregivers, who are the core attachment figures, are essential participants in the healing process. When therapist and parents work together to understand the whole child, i.e., somatic, neurological, emotional, psychological, behavioral, and social domains, then strategies can be applied to build and optimize the child’s systemic resources.

Mershona Parshall Neurofeedback Testimonials

"Neurofeedback has substantially and easily improved my ability to focus and concentrate, as well as lightening my overall outlook." --D.F., Sagamore Hills, OH

"The neurofeedback helped in ways that my Zoloft didn't. It cleared up my brain fog. I was able to easily complete tasks that were just overwhelming before. It was almost too easy. It was difficult to accept that something so simple could work. I wish that this had come along sooner in my life. I feel that I wasted so much time." --Y.G., Cleveland Hts., OH

"My kids have both moved up dramatically with expressive language, reading, social skills, problem solving, auditory and visual processing, no more bedwetting, word retrieval, interest in the world around them, math comprehension and measured cognitive levels. More importantly my kids can hold a conversation that makes sense, and report information sequentially and logically. The level of confusion in them has really declined and they are a lot more fun to be with. We have come a long way since they arrived here." --A.H. Chagrin Falls, OH, (Adoptive Parent)

Mershona Parshall Attachment And Bonding Therapy Below is a sampling of the type of symptoms that have been observed in children with primary attachment trauma:
• Difficulty regulating strong affect.
• Chronic hyperarousal, hypoarousal or a combination of both.
• A false self (superficiality) used to get needs met rather than an authentic ability to ask, give and take in relationships.
• Dysregulated sleep patterns.
• Intense insecurity masked by precocious behavior.
• Excessive need to control the environment out of fear.
• Cognitive distortions, e.g., externalizing blame; inability to perceive the environment accurately.
• Difficulty understanding cause and effect.
• Disinterest in modeling self after the parent or seeking parental approval.
• Perceiving self as victim; likes to be rescued by strangers.
• Poor conscience development, lack of empathy for other living beings.
• Learning problems, language problems.
• Behavior that may alternate between regressive and overly self-reliant.
• Inability to make friends.
• Rejection of parents, will not allow parent to nurture him or her; cannot trust adults.
• Unable to make friends, lack of meaningful relationships with others.
Failures in attachment are also complicated by exposure to neurotoxins in utero, e.g., alcohol, drugs, poor nutrition of the mother, excessive maternal stress, mother’s exposure to domestic violence during gestation.

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