We were lucky to catch up with Roseann Capanna-Hodge recently and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, Roseann thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’re complete cheeseballs and so we love asking folks to share the most heartwarming moment from their career – do you have a touching moment you can share with us?
Throughout my career as a therapist and psychologist, I’ve had the privilege of helping thousands of children and their families using only science-backed, natural mental health solutions.
Alec is a young man that I treated over 20 years ago that further deepened my integrative mental health practice. He was a young boy that had worked with many practitioners before the age of eight, He was struggling, behaviorally at home, school, and in his peer relationships.
Despite getting, which seems like good care from many providers, Alec struggled. In desperation, his parents tried ADHD medication’s, which caused cardiac problems..
In the early days of the internet, they found a neurofeedback provider that was more than an hour away. Feeling like they had no other choice, they made the trek three times a week.
Alec’s behavior began to change rather quickly. He went from an extremely hyper child to one that could listen and do seat work for the first time in his life. His brain and behavior were calm.
Alec went on to be successful student and actually graduated high school at age 16.
After seeing Alec’s behavioral transformation, I began to offer brain tools such as Nurofeedback and PEMF. These natural methods work to calm in the brain without any harmful side effects, so children can pay attention, think, and regulate.
Today, Alec is a happy and successful adult, and I’m grateful that he brought Nurofeedback into my world because I’ve been able to have so many other kids just like him calm their brain and create happy families.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
As a very young child, I knew it was my calling to become a psychologist and I followed that path. From my first encounters working with children who are struggling with learning, behavior, or emotions, I knew that I wanted to help kids and their families.
One of my favorite things about working with kids, is that they don’t know they can’t get better, and they only see the positive. They trust and believe that they can get better.
At our organization, Dr. Roseann, we offer a variety of science backed-methods that work to calm the brain, and give kids in their families tools to reset behavior.
We specialize in supporting children that have complex issues and believe that every brain can learn to regulate. We work with children that have ADHD, executive functioning, issues, anxiety, obsessive, compulsive disorder (OCD), PANS/PANDAS, and mood and behavioral issues.
We support kids and their families all over the world and we have a trademarked program that we customize for every client. In our BrainBehaviorReset™ Program, we strategically combine the best of proven neuroscientific strategies to reset the brain and behavior. In our premier one-to-one program, we use Nurofeedback, PEMF, biofeedback, and pair it with psychotherapy or coaching.
Unlike most of mental health, we start by checking under the hood. No guessing just using science to really understand what the real issues are so we can get to the right solutions.
In our program we begin with a QEEG brain map or brain check, and then we dive into strategy session where I personally create a custom care plan. Our program is based on my 30 years of clinical experience and success with thousands of kids and families.
For families that aren’t local, we can work with them fully remotely by sending them neurofeedback equipment or they can purchase our FDA approved Calm PEMF™ portable device.
Calm PEMF™ is a portable and easy to use frequency device that is scientifically proven to lower stress and boost brain function with a press of a button. The best part about this device is. You can calm the brain and increase focus without harmful medication side effects.
Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) is a non-invasive, drug-free therapy scientifically proven to lower stress, improve mental wellness and reduce inflammation. The technology works by using electromagnetic frequencies to stimulate healthy communication between cells, reduce inflammation and calm the nervous system.
Neurofeedback is different from PEMF, as with neurofeedback through the use of computers, the brain is given reinforcement. Every time it produces a healthy combination of brain waves. Over a number of sessions, the brain changes, and is able to be more focused, process, quicker, and his calmer. That results and improved learning, behavior, and mood.
For parents that aren’t ready to jump into a one to one program or purchase a PEMF device, we have books, digital courses, and my podcast, It’s Gonna Be OK! With Dr. Roseann: the parenting resource for children’s behavior and mental health.
What makes what we do different is that we only use science-backed natural solutions and empower parent with methods that actually change the brain and behavior.
What I am most proud of is teaching kids and parents that they can change their brains and have peaceful, happy families.
Even when a parent thinks they’ve tried everything and nothing is working and parents are scared, I want parents to know there is hope. When we use what science has shown us already works, we can help our children have calm brain and behavior.
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
Something I had to unlearn in order to help my clients, was to challenge what I had been taught about the efficacy of psychiatric medication.
As a therapist and a psychologist, we receive an incredible amount of training that really pushes that the only way the brain can be helped is through pharmacologic interventions.
It wasn’t until I started working with children, did I discover how really untrue that was. What I witnessed was that terrible reactions to psychiatric medication really was the standard and it was hurting children.
That was unacceptable for me, and that led me to looking at the research. The research was clear that there were many ways to change the brain with most of them being natural methods.
That shifted everything for me and led to my 30 years of integrative mental health work with children and families. I am grateful that I get to show children and families every day that there is another way beyond harmful psychiatric medications.
Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?
How I have been able to reach more families who are struggling to manage their child’s behavior and mental health, is through public speaking, the media, and my podcast.
With over 500 media appearances and expert opinions in top publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, parade magazine, I have been able to reach over 2 billion people.
And now my podcast has really become a beacon of hope for families that are struggling are looking for natural ways to support their child’s brain and behavior.
https://drroseann.com/podcast/
Contact Info:
- Website: Www.drroseann.com
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