🌸Who We Are and Why We ARE Effective🌸
Our Philosophy of Psychotherapy and Consulting~ Autonomic Nervous System Regulation
🧠We are ALL experiencing a trauma response- EVERYONE.
Our BODIES AND BRAINS ARE CHANGED TO “fear-driven” BY DESIGN🙌🏻💡
🌸🌸🌸OUR MINDS (ME, YOU) are in protection mode at ALL levels and we DON‘T even know it!!!!
(Defensive position)
When we are scared, it becomes difficult and impossible to have relationships and connect with others.
🙌🏻Our BODIES HAVE TO BE CONNECTED to our BRAIN, in order to work and function properly🧠 TO ACCESS OUR MINDS- US!!!!!
A PANDEMIC causes the fear-driven brain to come back online; threat perception gets confused and we ”see” danger everywhere, even when not logical- our brain and body remain in defensive stance geared for PROTECTION ~ NOT CONNECTION.
🌸HUMANS need HUMANS to THRIVE!
~we are hurt by people and healed with people~ IT’s all we strive for and look for ~ relationship, connection with each other. How do we TRUST anything when everyone is a threat?
TO HEAL WE REQUIRE:
🌸INTEROCEPTION~ looking inward, deep understanding and awareness of your body, activation and reconnection (yoga, chi gong, body movement, meditation, mindfulness) in order to attain
clear thinking (medial prefrontal cortex), connection to self and for HEALING TO BEGIN.
🌸 New, expensive quick fixes, vagal stimulators, sound beds, pills, medication is not effective in HEALING FROM TRAUMA.
🤚😬PLEASE USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION AND AWARENESS.
YOU have all the “answers” for healing inside of YOU.
🙋♀️ONE CANNOT HEAL ONES SELF🙅♀️
🌸🌸We understand the more trauma you have, the more reactive you will BE🌸🌸 that’s not your fault!!
🌸WE USE THE BODY TO CALM DOWN OUR BRAIN~
AND REGAIN CONTROL OF THE SELF—YOU!🌸
🌸HEALING at MountainVue Counseling, Psychotherapy & Consulting means restoring body/brain balance back to YOU!!🧠🙌🏻🌸
The human brain/body connection is COMPLEX and wonderfully made. WE CAN stimulate the body to SEND MESSAGES to our BRAIN that elicit CALM, CONNECTION and feeling SAFE.
🌸Remember "feeling" safe is NOT the removal of a threat🌸
We CAN move and manipulate our body into a relaxed state (systemically) which in result CALMS THE BRAIN.
🌸Medial Prefrontal Cortex- (The Pilot of the Plane) the only conscious part of the brain that we actively control and has neuroplasticity. The larger the size, activation and neural connectivity, the more control you have of YOU.
🌸Trauma is stored separately from the person and is triggered by sensory information.
These traumatic experiences are stored separately with adrenaline and ~ The sounds, images, smells, sensations, feelings we interpret from the body cause:
Flashbacks/triggers!
🌸THE only way to integrate trauma and heal from PTSD is to:
🌸CALM THE THALAMUS
And activate the
🌸SELF SENSING SYSTEM
(Medial Prefrontal Cortex)
~Strengthen Neuroplasticity
When CONNECTED brain and body, we are in the PARASYMPATHETIC STATE
Parasympathetic state (rest/digest) occurs in REM sleep and when we "FEEL" CALM in our system, CONNECTED and SAFE (REST, DIGEST)
We are able to control reactions to situations in a healthy manner.
Vagus Nerve
The Vagus Nerve is the longest cranial nerve that carries sensory and motor fibers. The vagus nerve is a main nerve of the PARASYMPATHTIC NERVOUS SYSTEM. It connects the brain to the body and controls midline structures of the body such as the tongue, throat, heart, lungs and digestive tract. These Afferent Nerves send signals from the body's periphery to the central nervous system. It brings outside information from the body to the brain. When we feel strong emotions, we experience them through the VAGUS NERVE. For example, when we are scared, hurt or traumatized, we feel it in the BODY (heartache, guttural pain, throat closes up, heart races, panic attacks etc)!
🌸 We cannot control our brain/body connection, as its primary focus is to keep us alive! The brain will react to protect the body at all cost (dissociation, trauma responses, increased reactivity to protect and survive).
🌸The Vagus Nerve can be activated to send messages from the body to the brain, eliciting safety and calm through various techniques.
🌸Surviving and healing from PTSD and Trauma takes interoception and manipulation of the body.
We DON'T KNOW how to CALM down the Amygdala & Thalamus. (We have no control over the brain/body connection)
🌸BUT WE CAN ACTIVATE, STRENGTHEN AND CONTROL OUR MIND 🌸
The self-experience part of the brain!!!
(Medial PREFRONTAL CORTEX)
Our Mission
Our individual counselors, psychotherapists and consultants collaborate with EVERYONE to FEEL SAFE and CONNECTED IN THEIR BODY~BRAIN~MIND. WE CREATE AND CULTIVATE A THERAPEUTIC, WARM, SAFE ENVIRONMENT WHERE FEELING CALM AND SAFE IS PREREQUISITE to our services AND for HEALING TO BE EFFECTIVE! OFFICE EXPANSION UNDERWAY, MORE HEALING OPPORTUNITIES TO COME!!
ENDORSEMENTS:
Dr. Colleen McGuire, DO Psychiatry
https://www.happierliving.com/our-team/colleen-mcguire-do
Bren Worthington, creator of RNRA, author, inventor, healer:
Our Therapeutic Focus: Counseling & Psychotherapy
Complex Trauma & PTSD
NEGATIVE COPING SKILLS- MAKE SENSE!!!
LIFE'S CHALLENGES AND UNCERTAINTY
“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health;
safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives"- Bessel Van der Kolk, M.D.
Our ability to connect is impaired by traumatic experiences. Trauma is an event or experience that a person does not have the understa
“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health;
safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives"- Bessel Van der Kolk, M.D.
Our ability to connect is impaired by traumatic experiences. Trauma is an event or experience that a person does not have the understanding or capacity to handle. Our brains and body create various ways to protect itself and ensure our survival, at the basic biological level. So it makes sense for people to be on the defensive if something they have never experienced occurs, coupled with fear for their safety or life - trauma occurs; a biological response responsible solely for protection and survival. Trauma causes a lasting impact on an individuals' mental and emotional stability, including dampening of cognitive and executive functioning. If left untreated, trauma has a powerful capacity to shape how an individual interprets themselves and the world around them.
The past four years have been wrought with trauma; fear of others, fear of illness/dying. We are seeing more dysregulated children and adults, an overwhelming increase in ADHD diagnosis' in children and adults. Individuals young and old are often misdiagnosed with neurological disorders in an effort to "make sense" "hypothesize" the root cause of the growing mental health crisis we are currently experiencing. MountainVue Counseling continues to provide professional support, human connection, proven evidence-based therapeutics, ANS regulation and most importantly - A SAFE PLACE; which is the precursor to healing, recreating bonds, connection, the ability to trust and clearing trauma.
LIFE'S CHALLENGES AND UNCERTAINTY
NEGATIVE COPING SKILLS- MAKE SENSE!!!
LIFE'S CHALLENGES AND UNCERTAINTY
The challenges an individual experiences in life can become overwhelming at times. These challenges can affect a person physically, mentally and emotionally, causing unhealthy coping mechanism to rise to the surface. Depression, fear, and anxiety are some of the most common and uncomfortable emotions that we can experience at some point i
The challenges an individual experiences in life can become overwhelming at times. These challenges can affect a person physically, mentally and emotionally, causing unhealthy coping mechanism to rise to the surface. Depression, fear, and anxiety are some of the most common and uncomfortable emotions that we can experience at some point in our lives.
Our goal is to help individuals identify the stimuli that may cause anxiety, or depression and provide guidance on how to cope with these stressors. Through counseling and treatment, we are able to help you find healthy ways to manage your stress, anxiety and depression, gain perspective, and recreate the joy and peace you once had in your life.
NEGATIVE COPING SKILLS- MAKE SENSE!!!
NEGATIVE COPING SKILLS- MAKE SENSE!!!
NEGATIVE COPING SKILLS- MAKE SENSE!!!
The immense complexity of life and the human journey is unique as we forge our own path, one footstep at a time toward one goal, the moutaintop, the pinnacle; safety, connection, purpose and love.
We view each path an individual takes as vital to who they are. Life happens, and we cannot always control what happens TO us. Learn to embrace
The immense complexity of life and the human journey is unique as we forge our own path, one footstep at a time toward one goal, the moutaintop, the pinnacle; safety, connection, purpose and love.
We view each path an individual takes as vital to who they are. Life happens, and we cannot always control what happens TO us. Learn to embrace the parts of you that protected you-defensive mechanisms are normal. I have the skills and knowledge to get you back to yourself. Allow me to teach you how to calm your system so your brain and body reconnect and you can think and feel clearly.
We can walk together up the mountain! Like footsteps in the sand, we often overlap, taking the same path and encountering others. Allow me to teach you what I've discovered and ease your shame and pain.
Counseling, treatment and consulting involves walking alongside those who are experiencing the range of emotional, mental, physical and relational stress that can be caused by simply living life! We support and encourage individuals as they embark on their journey to back to self; connection, calm, internal peace and growth, physical health, mental health, emotional regulation, safety and/or spiritual connection.
Specialties
Issues Treated
Issues Treated
- Neurobiology of Trauma
- Complex Trauma/PTSD
- ANS Regulation: Calming Autonomic Nervous System- eliciting parasympathetic state (rest/digest); precursor for healing- therapy and consultation service.
- Consulting-Eliciting calm and safety via sensory manipulation ~VAGUS NERVE~no trauma story= less chance of retraumatizing individual.
- VAGUS NERVE ACTIVATION
Issues Treated
Issues Treated
Issues Treated
- Complex Trauma
- Dysregulation in ANS Body/Brain/Mind
- Narcissistic Abuse
- Codependency/Enmeshment
- PTSD~Complex PTSD
- Vagus Nerve dysregulation
Treatment Preferences AND Consulting
Treatment Preferences AND Consulting
Treatment Preferences AND Consulting
- Individuals
- Mother and child
- Adolescent
- Adult
Modalities
Treatment Preferences AND Consulting
Treatment Preferences AND Consulting
- EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing)
- Polyvagal Theory
- Neurobiology of Trauma
- Trauma-Focused CBT
- Psychoeducation
- AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION- Medial Prefrontal Cortex Activation, Strengthen neural connections.
Empowering SELF with MountainVue
EMDR
Neurobiology of Trauma- Consultation
Neurobiology of Trauma- Consultation
ONE OF THE TWO LEADING THERAPEUTICS IN CLEARING TRAUMA FROM THE BODY. Use the body to calm the mind; Get help desensitizing and processing painful experiences that prevent you from living a healthy life. Take advantage of and utilize EMDR~eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. EMDR is proven to be the most effective, evidence based therapeutic's we have as clinicians FOR TRAUMA. Make an appointment and invest in YOU.
Neurobiology of Trauma- Consultation
Neurobiology of Trauma- Consultation
Neurobiology of Trauma- Consultation
Confused by feelings, emotions, impulsive reactions or behaviors that cause difficulty in life and are beyond your control? Do you have difficulty with memory, completing daily tasks, feeling safe, foggy and fail to understand what is going on as if you're "losing your mind"? These are all signs and symptoms of trauma. Trauma responses ARE normal responses your body engages in to keep you alive. Learn how to identify your trauma response, calm the ANS (autonomic nervous system) using proven techniques. Move from shut down to thriving, rediscover and love EVERY part of you that has survived and is here and now.
Calming the autonomic nervous system is a crucial first step to healing and can be learned!! Learn WHY your body and brain can become hijacked when stressed or triggered and HOW to calm your system down. Become the YOU, you are destined to be.
🌸Taking limited patients due to nature of therapy ~consultation required!
🌸MountainVue Consulting; Psychoeducation
🌸MountainVue Consulting; Psychoeducation
🌸MountainVue Consulting; Psychoeducation
Become YOU!!!! In our PARASYMPATHETIC STATE (rest/digest, feeling calm and safe) we ARE primed HEALING and can once again:
🌸BE and FEEL CONNECTED, IN CONTROL AND CALM
🌸 PRIMED FOR PURPOSE, INNOVATION, CREATIVITY and OUR GIFTS REVEAL THEMSELVES!!!
🌸We ARE IN OUR POWER AND CREATED/CREATIVE STATE WHEN CALM /CONNECTED AND YOU return to YOU~ AS BRAIN AND BODY are RECONNECTED!!!
MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX ACTIVATION
Schedule a 30 min, 60 min, 90 min session. UTILIZE INTEROCEPTION and get back into YOU. RELEARN AND RECONNECT YOUR BRAIN AND BODY!
YOU COME FIRST!!! 🙌🏻 Make an appointment now that will change your life!
🌸 Email for free 30 MIN ANS SESSION to assist in Hurricane relief trauma ~Thursdays and Fridays!!!
🌺Moi~The Art of Self Luxury Retreat💄
🌸MountainVue Consulting; Psychoeducation
🌸MountainVue Consulting; Psychoeducation
🌺Moi~The Art of Self🌺
~We Are, We Pivot💄
Join Debbie Kish owner, founder of MountainVue Counseling, PLLC: Psychotherapy & Consulting AND author, healer, inventor of Soma sensory blankets and ground breaking therapeutics, consultant and founder of RNR-Recovery from Narcissistic Relationships, Bren Worthington.........on an unprecedented EXCLUSIVE LUXURY RETREAT focused and centered on The Journey to Self. On this journey of self-actualization we will explore YOU, helping YOU calm your autonomic nervous system (ANS); reconnecting brain and body.
🌸In this parasympathetic state WOMEN are primed to thrive, innovate, invent succeed and control their destiny. Join us as we rediscover our values, talents, gifts and purpose. More information to come.💄
Pack your bags and come with on our luxury retreat!
🌸ONLY SPACE FOR 10 WOMEN, reserve your spot now.
Applications open soon for 2025 Grand Opening of Moi and our first fabulous luxury retreat in Florida! It is all about 🌸MOI',Darling!!
Tell all your fabulous girlfriends and pack 2 suitcases!!
Bren and I are world travelers and this time we are
🌸TRAVELING WITH PURPOSE🌸
Come, join us and lounge properly 💄
🌸Projected date is Spring 2025, to be hosted by:
EAU PALM BEACH RESORT & SPA
Licensed Professional Counselor/Psychotherapist
MountainVue Counseling; Psychotherapy & Consulting
🌸 Currently, I am PIVOTING IN MY CAREER AND PASSION:
🌸HELPING OTHERS REGAIN CONTROL OF THEMSELVES and THEIR LIVES.
🌸YOU have all the ANSWERS and the answer is......YOU!
🌸REGAIN CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE AND YOURSELF!!
The concept of ME (Moi`), utilizes my personal and professional expertise and proven strategies for ANS -Autonomic Nervous System regulation. I elicit the parasympathetic state you need to self-actualize.
Join me and begin to unpack the WHY behind your thoughts, emotions and behavior and relearn HOW to reclaim YOU! TAKE THIS JOURNEY FOR YOU!!!!
Deborah Puckett Kish MACC, LCMHC, NCC
My warm, collaborative approach allows individuals to discover deeper truths, reconnect with their true selves, and gain a fuller acceptance of strengths and struggles. Counseling is a space for transparency, compassion and vulnerability in the midst of the challenges you face. We are all human, we have all struggled. I value the importance of genuine connection, authenticity, empathy and respect. I create a safe, non-judgmental, nurturing space for clients or patients to slowly explore interpersonally at their pace, process, understand their stories and experiences that shaped who they are and acquire the skills necessary to become the person they are meant to be.
Education
I am originally from California, but have lived around the world as my father was an officer in the Military. I earned my Bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico. Due to unforeseen circumstances, my purpose being slowly revealed 🙌🏻, my plans for the medical field pivoted! I transferred out of the nursing program with a unique wealth of knowledge, completed a 5th year of school and majored in Psychology with a minor in Biology. I received my Master's of Arts in Christian Counseling from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary-Charlotte, finishing with a total of 11 years of higher education. Most recently, I completed a Master Series on Treating Trauma, Neurobiology of Trauma and Treating Shame. I am a Psychotherapist and am recognized by the NCBLCMHC as a Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor in North Carolina as well as a Nationally Certified Counselor governed by the National Board for Certified Counselors, and a member of EMDRIA. I am the founder of MountainVue Counseling, PLLC and co-founder of the concept Moi`~The Art of Self. I have 30 years of experience and schooling throughout my life and career in the medical/mental health field. I am a single mother of 3 beautiful children and currently live in the Charlotte, North Carolina area.
Experience
I have counseled in a variety of settings including mental health hospitals, day-treatment centers, intensive in-home therapy, on integrative care teams, within a private practice, and my own private practice. I have co-presented with colleges and Dr.'s in the mental health profession from APA conferences to providing psychoeducation to the community; teachers, parents, wives, children. I have taught Special Education in inner city schools, engage in routine pro-bono work within the mental healthy community and beyond, and have 30 years extensive experience/schooling in complex trauma therapeutics.
My business partner, Bren Worthington and I have recently launched our concept Moi~The Art of Self. This journey is one of self-actualization; cultivating gifts and talents in our natural, calm connected state.. We are hosting the first ever luxury retreat using ground breaking therapeutics. We assist women in self-actualization; reclaiming their power, innovation, rediscovering themselves and who they ARE meant to be~A calm, parasympathetic state within brain and body, which is necessary to survive and thrive.
Bren, esteemed inventor, entrepreneur, creator and author recently published Recovery from Narcissistic Relationships (RNR) support group's field guild, "You Are Not Crazy". She is currently working a journal as well as literature to launch the first ever RNRA 12-Step Recovery Program. More news to follow! I endorse her and her expertise in recognizes Narcissistic Relationships and escaping abusive relationships.
www.Brenworthington .com
Dr. Colleen McGuire, DO, psychiatrist, attending doc, entrepreneur, healer, sister, colleague, lifelong research partner in science, medicine, human behavior, complexities of the brain and body is currently on a similar journey in bringing awareness to our autonomic nervous system as she treats psychiatric patients at a different level; observing a similar phenomenon in counseling and consulting in todays emotional, social and political climate. I fully endorse her work and treatment as a provider! She is credentialed in multiple states and will be accepting new patients.
https://www.happierliving.com/our-team/colleen-mcguire-do
My approach to therapy is collaborative, grounded in Neurobiology, EMDR principles, Trauma-Focused Therapy and Polyvagal Theory with a focus on the Vagus Nerve. I collaborate with psychiatrists, social workers and doctors routinely as we manage our patients care, medication management and mental health. I work and collaborate with mental health professionals, doctors, lawyers, researchers, parents, teachers and authors to provide the most relevant and ground breaking evidence-based approaches for healing. It is my priveledge to work with adolescents, adults and couples to calm their autonomic nervous systems to elicit a calm, connected and content state. When in the parasympathetic state, we function completely and are in sync, where our true natural talents and gifts can shine, where you become the YOU you've always been and are meant to be.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/deborah-c-puckett-kish-cornelius-nc/391719
Areas of Expertise
My areas of expertise are PTSD, Complex Trauma and Autonomic Nervous System regulation, and Narcissistic Abuse informed by the Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Trauma. Issues stemming from trauma can negatively impact every aspect of an individuals life, holding them hostage often unaware. I look at trauma like a bell curve. There is one end of the bell curve, where life happens; illness, heartache, heartbreak, job loss, car accident, to list a few, and on the other end there is covert abuse or complex trauma, natural disaster, disease, etc. Depending on an individual's attachment style, ability to co-regulate, cognitive and executive functioning, these experiences will either cause trauma or opportunities for growth. Trauma CAN be processed in a healthy manner. It takes a safe environment, trust and connection.
It's important to understand extensive, covert or overt, prolonged abuse DOES cause damage to the brain, cognitive and executive functioning and is stored in the body. This causes chemical and physical reactions in the body that affect thoughts, emotions and behaviors of the individual, both conscious and unconscious. It impacts mental and physiological health, can be the cause of disease and psychiatric disorders. Complex-Trauma distorts the individuals view of self and others, distorts reality, plays "tricks on the mind", the ability to co-regulate and trust, connect and interact, grow and thrive in this extremely social world; they remain and live in a defensive position shut off from the world, more devastatingly, themselves. It essentially prevents an individual from thriving and being in their true SELF (Moi`).
Throughout my career as a psychotherapist, I have heard, encountered and journeyed with many individuals, undiagnosed and diagnosed, needing connection and care. WE ARE ALL HUMAN AND OUR AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEMS ARE ALWAYS IMPACTED BY OURSELVES AND OTHERS, as well as trauma. Symptomology can be treated from a Polyvagal, Neurobioloical perspective and most individuals experience instant RELIEF AND CLARITY. There are the outliers who either cannot or will not be treated OR ASK FOR HELP! Issues I’ve worked with and encountered DUE to trauma, abuse or difficulty in life:
Addiction/Substance abuse, attachment issues, co-dependency, lack of boundaries, manipulation, gaslighting, personality disorders, mood disorders, Autonomic Nervous System dysregulation, individuals blamed for problems in relationship, paranoid/ruminating thoughts, shutting down, exhaustion, physiological issues, paralyzed, foggy, nervous, anxious, hyper-vigilance, memory issues, confused, loneliness, inability to feel joy or contentment, mislabeled ADHD, emotional outbursts and dysregulation in children, teens and adults, fear, no self-esteem/self-worth, scared, no one believes them, trapped, inferior, shame". All of these, surprisingly enough can be caused by abuse and trauma.
I do have experience with acute mental illness such as Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Delusion Disorder, Eating Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, PADAS, PANS,Lyme, Mold. I am extensively schooled, trained and/or certified in:
EMDR, Neurobiology of Trauma, Treatment of Neurobiology of Trauma and Shame, Trauma-Focused Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Trauma-Focused Therapy, ZONES of Regulation. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, I have lived and survived a Narcissitic relationship and understand the destruction they leave in their wake and detriment they cause a family system.
Welcome to MountainVue Counseling Therapy
Welcome to MountainVue Counseling Psychotherapy
At MountainVue Counseling Psychotherapy, we believe in a collaborative approach to therapy. We work with our clients to create a safe and supportive environment where they can explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Our goal is to help our clients develop the tools and skills they need to manage life's challenges and achieve their goals. We offer individual and couples therapy, as well as group therapy and workshops.
Get in Touch
If you're interested in learning more about our therapy services, please contact us to schedule a free phone consultation.