Monday, November 26, 2012
Interview by Lon Woodbury
Steve Sawyer, Clinical Director and also Co-Founder of New Vision Wilderness Therapeutic Outdoor Programs, talked to Lon Woodbury on L.A. Talk Radio about how stress reduction has been verified to be a remarkably potent tool in the therapeutic treatment for at-risk youth who are participating in New Vision Wilderness trips in Wisconsin.
Overview
Steve Sawyer, co-founder of New Vision Wilderness, is a licensed psychotherapist who has a passion for the intervention and change process. He has over a decade of intervention experience in residential, community-based, outpatient and wilderness therapy and currently serves on the board of The National Association of Therapeutic Wilderness Camping (NATWC).
Youth Becoming Increasingly Stressed
Stress in adolescents in America is not only rising but getting considerably worse. This stress occurs from an assortment of causes such as scholastic stress, keeping up with peer approval on social media, as well as feeling isolated and traumatized by cyber bullying. Furthermore, this inner tension is a representation of a sense of lack of control or powerlessness, which is only a small step down from the normal physical response of fight, flight, or freezing up when encountering extreme risk. While this inner tension can easily be triggered by outside events, the actual reason may, in fact, be an inner belief about feeling vulnerable.
Sawyer clarified that some of the sophisticated stress reduction procedures he made use of were based on recent research on exactly how the brain functions. He thinks that behavior develops from cognitions, cognitions from feelings, and these feelings, in turn, arise from encapsulated memories, many of which are now unconscious.
In order to access the root source of behavior problems stemming from repressed memories in the unconscious, Sawyer uses different therpeutic strategies to create profound change. He makes use of such new and cutting- edge treatments as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), Brainspotting, Traumatic Memory Reprocessing with NLP, and Art Therapy. These therapies help to manage stress, decrease overstimulation and promote neural and somatic balance.
The interview concluded with Sawyer explaining a few things parents can do to prevent the stress levels in the family from getting out of control.
Final Thoughts
Although anxiety may be typical of our fast society, it could trigger heart attacks in adults and behavior problems in youth. Stress reduction methods address emotional and psychological demands by nurturing self expression. Youth enlisted in the New Vision Wilderness programs are finding new coping skills, handling anxiety, and enhancing their sense of self.
Interview by Lon Woodbury
Steve Sawyer, Clinical Director and also Co-Founder of New Vision Wilderness Therapeutic Outdoor Programs, talked to Lon Woodbury on L.A. Talk Radio about how stress reduction has been verified to be a remarkably potent tool in the therapeutic treatment for at-risk youth who are participating in New Vision Wilderness trips in Wisconsin.
Overview
Steve Sawyer, co-founder of New Vision Wilderness, is a licensed psychotherapist who has a passion for the intervention and change process. He has over a decade of intervention experience in residential, community-based, outpatient and wilderness therapy and currently serves on the board of The National Association of Therapeutic Wilderness Camping (NATWC).
Youth Becoming Increasingly Stressed
Stress in adolescents in America is not only rising but getting considerably worse. This stress occurs from an assortment of causes such as scholastic stress, keeping up with peer approval on social media, as well as feeling isolated and traumatized by cyber bullying. Furthermore, this inner tension is a representation of a sense of lack of control or powerlessness, which is only a small step down from the normal physical response of fight, flight, or freezing up when encountering extreme risk. While this inner tension can easily be triggered by outside events, the actual reason may, in fact, be an inner belief about feeling vulnerable.
Sawyer clarified that some of the sophisticated stress reduction procedures he made use of were based on recent research on exactly how the brain functions. He thinks that behavior develops from cognitions, cognitions from feelings, and these feelings, in turn, arise from encapsulated memories, many of which are now unconscious.
In order to access the root source of behavior problems stemming from repressed memories in the unconscious, Sawyer uses different therpeutic strategies to create profound change. He makes use of such new and cutting- edge treatments as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), Brainspotting, Traumatic Memory Reprocessing with NLP, and Art Therapy. These therapies help to manage stress, decrease overstimulation and promote neural and somatic balance.
The interview concluded with Sawyer explaining a few things parents can do to prevent the stress levels in the family from getting out of control.
Final Thoughts
Although anxiety may be typical of our fast society, it could trigger heart attacks in adults and behavior problems in youth. Stress reduction methods address emotional and psychological demands by nurturing self expression. Youth enlisted in the New Vision Wilderness programs are finding new coping skills, handling anxiety, and enhancing their sense of self.
About the Author:
Lon Woodbury created Struggling Teens to help families. He has the recorded this interview on his L.A. Talk Radio show for easy access at any time.
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