Daniel Omans, LMSW has worked amid a variety of mental health settings since 2004. These levels of care have included wilderness therapy, secure residential, therapeutic boarding school, community/home based and outpatient. Dan’s Approaches to therapy include Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT), Post Induction Therapy (PIT), Trauma Release Exercises (TRE), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS).

Post Induction Therapy (PIT) is a modality designed to treat the effects of childhood trauma and resulting issues of developmental immaturity. Trauma is defined as experiences of emotional, physical, sexual, spiritual, intellectual abuse or neglect a person has experienced from birth into their formative years.

Tension and Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) are a set simple, innovative stretching exercises that help the body release deeply held stress, tension and trauma. This is a somatic modality developed by Dr. David Berceli. TRE requires the patient to be medically cleared for light exercise.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an approach to symptoms by reconnecting the client in a safe and measured way to the images, self-thoughts, emotions, and body sensations associated with the trauma, and allowing the natural healing powers of the brain to move toward adaptive resolution.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on a client’s internal “parts” and “Self.” In IFS, the mind is considered to be naturally made up of multiple sub-personalities or families within each individual’s mental system. These sub-personalities take on different roles, such as an inner critic or inner child, and consist of wounded parts and painful feelings like anger and shame. The goal of IFS is to access Self, heal wounded parts and bring the mind into balance.