Photoreport of the Vitaliza Center: cutting-edge psychology from Navarra

Multidisciplinary approach, personalized attention and vocation. We know the pillars of Vitaliza.

The team of professionals working at Vitaliza we carry out our work from a therapeutic approach to which we are fully committed and which includes three phases.

Vitaliza: the three phases of therapy

We understand that the first challenge when we start 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 he/she is going through. This moment would include the Assessment phase.

After this first meeting, we believe that it is essential to provide our patients with the necessary tools to return to the minimum equilibrium that will allow them to develop their daily life with a certain degree of normality and help them to place themselves in a predisposition to be able to work with the necessary stability on 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 comes in.. When the person has developed the capacity to remain sufficiently regulated, we will be able to work and elaborate all the experiences of his history that may be generating disturbance in his present. Here we enter the final phase of Integration.

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

Mindfulness

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

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

On the other hand, from fields as far away from psychology as many schools of Eastern meditation, especially within Buddhism, the development of this capacity of 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 that it has the capacity to regenerate itself. and that it has the capacity 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 recording of the brain's 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 the different brain areas.

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

The procedure is simple. Our professionals observe the way the person's brain functions at a specific moment. The person watches, during the training, a screen where moving images appear and/or listens to different sounds. These images or sounds vary (as a reward or reinforcement) to the extent that the person's brain is producing specific amplitudes and/or brain wave frequencies. In this way, the person learns to use his or her 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, behavior disorders, sleep problems, learning difficulties, etc.

EMDR

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

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

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

Finally, we would like to highlight something that, as professionals and as a team, we consider of special importance. Beyond our method of work and the tools we use in our day to day, the professionals that form Vitaliza carry in the DNA of our work, the warmth, the accompaniment and the respect for the people to whom we attend.. We believe that the essence of restorative relationships lies in the forging of secure and sincere bonds where the people we accompany rediscover themselves by being looked at in a different way and thus start over through their own history and the world around them.