Ann Gammell Cook

23 years with a dynamic client base from: substance abuse, to burn survivors and their families, burn care professionals, to individual suffering with chronic disease. Philosophy: Each of us is under individually dynamic circumstances have experienced traumatic; medical, emotional and physical events, resulting in anxiety, depression, PTSD, Etc. The understanding the of the psychological aspects related to trauma with the hormonal and neurological processes that sustain them, the traumatic stress reactions involving emotional, cognitive, and behavioral consequences, how it develops, manifest, and affects one life, and how to manage. The Evidence Base Principles of Healing; empowerment, psycho-education, emotional support and practicing new behaviors, legitimize what one feels and what one thinks and that can be altered by biochemical changes; reversed by practice of specific types of physical and mental exercises, that maintain or reclaim self-reliance and a sense of control.