Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics

 

Do you have an adopted child or teen who has been in and out of therapy, but continues to struggle to make consistent progress? Have you been desperately trying to reach your child to get them on the “right path” to no avail? Are you exhausted and feeling like you are walking on egg shells in your own home? Did you yourself grow up feeling challenges to regulate or connect with others and are looking for a better understanding? NMT may be an appropriate treatment framework for you.

 

Believe it or not, your child is doing the best they can with what they have. Extreme traumatic stress and/or pervasive difficult early life experiences alter brain development, equipping kids with limited skills to manage their daily life and relationships. The result of this can feel terrible, like your child is attacking you personally. NMT can help provide a better understanding of what is going on, as well as practical ways to help manage what is happening so that your child can be more reachable to you, better able to benefit from your parenting, and more capable of leading an overall healthy life.

 
 

Who?

  • Foster or Adopted Children and Teens, particularly those with behavioral difficulties such as self-harm, suicidal ideation, physical and verbal aggression, and difficulty in school

  • Children and Teens who experienced extreme and/or chronic trauma

  • Young adults who experienced early life trauma and/or pervasive stress

What?

The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) is an innovative approach to trauma treatment developed by Dr. Bruce Perry and his staff at the Child Trauma Academy. The model utilizes a developmentally-sensitive, neurobiologically-informed and trauma-informed framework which allows clinicians to create brain maps for clients to specify the areas of the brain that may be underdeveloped or wounded due to early life experiences. NMT also provides lots of psychoeducation for individuals and their families to allow a more thorough understanding and sensitive approach to behavioral difficulties. Utilizing the NMT model with children and teens can allow for a more targeted and appropriate treatment approach that honors the developmental hierarchy of the brain and can provide concrete, targeted interventions to begin to make real progress and allow the brain to develop new and more helpful neural pathways.