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Treatment Classification Table

Acupuncture

  • Five Element Acupuncture: (sound) "Five Element Acupuncture is an ancient form of acupuncture that works by treating a person at the levels of body, mind, heart and spirit. By doing this it helps a person move back into harmony with themselves, their emotions and their life as a whole."

Alexander Technique

  • Elizabeth Buono: Alexander Technique Instructor in the Manhattan area.
  • ATI--Home Page: The most central and complete resource on the Alexander Technique--ATI (Alexander Technique International), The Worldwide Professional Organization, with on-line teachers list, listing of books, videos, etc., on-line articles and further information and links on the Alexander Technique."

Animal-Assisted Therapy & Service Dogs

  • Intermountain Therapy Animals: Utah's oldest and largest organization providing animal-assisted therapy.
  • Pets and People: Companions in Therapy and Service: "Companions in Therapy & Service is to provide comprehensive animal-assisted activities. These services include, but are not limited to, animal-assisted visitation and therapy, consumer-based service dog training, programs for shut-in clients, foster care for animals whose persons are in crisis, and food distribution programs. These activities will support the development of educational, research, and service endeavors. Services will be provided by trained volunteers and professional staff within specific guidelines without regard to race, creed, age, national origin, financial status, disease process, or lifestyle choices."

Aromatherapy

Creative Arts Therapy

  • American Art Therapy Association: Professional organization for those using and teaching Art Therapy.
  • Creative Arts for Healing: A complete resource guide for the use of the creative arts for healing."
  • National Art Exhibitions by the Mentally Ill (NAEMI): Devoted to increasing public awareness and understanding about art created by persons who have experienced mental illness. Includes event information and art gallery.
  • National Coalition of Arts Therapies Associations (NCATA): An alliance of professional associations dedicated to the advancement of the arts as therapeutic modalities. NCATA represents over 8000 individual members of six creative arts therapies associations. The creative arts therapies include art therapy, dance/movement therapy, drama therapy, and music therapy.
  • Survivors Art Foundation: Dedicated to encourage healing through the arts, Survivors Art Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to empowering Visual, Literary and Performing Artists with effective expressive outlets, via Web Gallery, National Exhibitions, Outreach Programs and Publications. Our goals are to provide entertainment, education, exposure to the arts, and raising public awareness in many crucial areas, while mainstreaming trauma survivors with physical and mental disabilities into the arts.

Biofeedback & Bio/Neurofeedback

  • Alternative Psychology: Emotions, Self Help and Biofeedback WITHOUT instruments: The technique is based on the fact that one can activate systematically the natural mending (healing) processes of the body, just after short training. Even habits, 'personality factors' and other 'psycho-pathologies' that usually do not bring about specific discernible sensations to focus attention on, can be easily provoked to create ones.
  • Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback: AAPB's mission is to advance the development, dissemination and utilization of knowledge about applied psychophysiology and biofeedback to improve health and the quality of life through research, education and practice.
  • Biofeedback Webzine: Biofeedback Webzine dedicated to research, clinical applications, software, hardware and latest information on biofeedback around the world, related sciences and stress disorders.
  • Mindworks EEG Bio/Neorofeedback Home Page (plugin): For treatment of many disorders which are usually treated with drugs there is a drug free alternative therapy which has a 90% or better success rate for most disorders listed. (ADD/ADHD, conduct disorders, sleep disorders, some brain injury.)

Religion-Based Therapy

  • Aletheia Center Christian Counseling (popup): The first step involves identification of lies that you believe and live by, lies that are embedded in your emotional memory, and recognition of the pain caused by those lies. Through your active listening in prayer, God reveals His truth, His healing light exposing the lies. Brief Christian Counseling.

Dolphin Therapy

  • 2 Angels: Fly with your Angels~Swim with the Dolphins.

Environmental Medicine

  • The Fiberglass Information Network: Often times people who are suffering from fiberglass poisoning are mis-diagnosed by doctors with mental illness. Of course, they are not mentally ill, but environ-mentally ill.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

  • EMDR Home Page: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma survivors.
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a controversial, new therapeutic technique reported to relieve traumatic memories, phobias, and a wide variety of psychological problems. This paper explains the EMDR procedure, and discuses research that supports and refutes its efficacy.
  • Overcoming Pain and Stress, based on EMDR: Overcoming Pain - tips, articles and resources for chronic pain and stress management, based on EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing).

Equine Therapy / Therapeutic Horse-Back Riding

  • North American Riding for the Handicapped Association: Children and adults riding at NARHA riding centers experience a wide range of benefits including increased flexibility (mentally, emotionally and physically) and better balance, to greater confidence and self-esteem. These benefits are often reported in conjunction with friendships formed during the therapeutic riding experience.

Exercise

  • The Way Up To Fitness With Dr. Priscilla Slagle: Dr. Slagle has been practising alternative psychiatric & general medicine for 30 years. The site includes her book, The Way Up From Down which describes the natural treatment of depression. She also includes her protocols for the natural treatment of 137 other conditions, & online purchase of the remedies. Browsers can subscribe to a FREE Alternative Medicine newsletter written & sent monthly by Dr Slagle.

Floral Essence Therapy

Guided Imagery

  • Health Journeys: Belleruth Naparstek's Health Journeys website offers visualization audiotapes, books, research and resources on guided imagery, a complementary medicine and holistic mind and body healing process.

Healing Touch

  • Hands, Hearts, Intentions: What is a healing touch and who is the healer? Hands, Hearts, Intentions, focus on the judicious use of energy, applied with love and science equals healing and wholeness which is facilitated with the healer.
  • Infinity Institute: Therapeutic touch and hypnosis.

Herbal Therapy/Botanical Medicine

  • Mountain Rose Herbs: Bulk Organic Herbs direct to you.
  • RippleCreek.com: 100's of Vitamins, Herbs, Minerals, and Supplements.
  • Botanical.com: A hyper-text version of A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve. Over 800 varieties of medicinal, culinary, and cosmetic herbs, including economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore.
  • iHerb: Natural and semi-natural ways to deal with: Depression, Insomnia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Stress and Anxiety. Including St. John's Wort, Hypericum, Ginkoba, Kava Kava, Ginkgo Biloba, Arsin 300, Ginkai and more.
  • The Way Up To Fitness With Dr. Priscilla Slagle: Dr. Slagle has been practising alternative psychiatric & general medicine for 30 years. The site includes her book, 'The Way Up From Down' which describes the natural treatment of depression. She also includes her protocols for the natural treatment of 137 other conditions, & online purchase of the remedies. Browsers can subscribe to a FREE Alternative Medicine newsletter written & sent monthly by Dr Slagle."

Holistic Healing

  • Holistic Healthcare Online (music): The Site That Lists ALL of the Holistic Health Care Practitioners worldwide.
  • Holistic Health Yellow Pages: Yellow pages of over 300,000 holistic health practitioners in USA. The holistic health supersite with shopping mall, newspaper, media center, encyclopedia, free library, message boards, etc.
  • Holistic Medicine Web Page: Holistic medicine and alternative medicine documentation, articles on nutrition, yoga, breathwork, and many other subjects. 1000+ quality links to other holistic healing sites, conference and retreat listings, case histories of healings & transformation, important news items, holistic healing mailing lists and USENET groups listings, attention deficit disorder mailing list, practitioner directories, and more.

Hypnosis

Light Therapy

  • Apollo Light Systems: Light Therapy FAQ: Relief from SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Winter Blues through 10,000 lux, light therapy, shift circadian rhythms."
  • The Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms: The members of the SLTBR have clinical and research interests in biological rhythm disorders including: seasonal affective disorder (SAD), jet lag, shift work, sleep disorders, eating disorders, nonseasonal depression, bipolar disorder, premenstrual syndrome, and others. They study and use treatments including: light therapy, chronotherapy, melatonin, serotonergic medications, and others."

Magnetic Therapy

  • Alternative Health: Electromagnetic Therapy, Magnetic Therapy: Electromagnetic therapy and magnetic therapy Methods Work! Electromagnetic therapy, magnetic therapy? Yes! What is electromagnetic therapy?"
  • The Miracle of Magnets: The human body floats in a sea of magnetic fields--those of the earth, moon, sun, and other galactic fields. The body is full of magnetic materials. Every cell and atom of the body is a small magnetic dynamo."
  • Magnetic Stimulation Studied as Alternative to ECT for Depression: "Magnetic Stimulation of the brain's left prefrontal cortex may help some depressed patients in much the same way as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), but without its side effects, suggests a preliminary study by Mark George, M.D., of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Eric Wassermann, M.D...."

Meditation

Massage Therapy

Music/Sound Therapy

  • Brain Sync Corporation: "Welcome to the world of Brain Sync, where the magic of sound is scientifically applied to transform life's many challenges, ranging from the mundane to the miraculous. In the world of audio we acknowledge that sound has the capacity to nourish, balance, and create wholeness in a wide variety of ways."
  • Global Sound Healing: Information about using sound therapy to treat conditions including allergies, depression, chronic pain and ear infections."
  • The Music Workshop Project: "is a scheme in Kidderminster, England, which aims to help people with mental health problems by involving them in various music-based activities. The project, one of the 1998 winners at the prestigious Lilly Schizophrenia Reintegration Awards has also released its own CD for sale to the public."
  • National Association for Child Development (NACD): NACD is offering a comprehensive, affordable, individually customized Samonas Sound Therapy Home Program under the guidance of Alexander Doman.
  • The Soundbeam Project (popups): This new motion-based way of making music offers people a unique way to express themselves through a combination of music and motion.
  • Sound Energy Research: Sound Therapy is used in hospitals, schools, corporate offices and psychological treatment programs as an effective treatment to reduce stress, lower blood pressure, alleviate pain, overcome learning disabilities, improve movement and balance, promote endurance, strength, stability and expanded awareness.
  • Vantage Quest: Harmonic Sound for Creativity and Growth: "Harmonic sounds on Vantage Quest's compact disc alter consciousness to enhance creativity, relaxation, meditation, healing, and insight."

Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Neurosciences

  • The Dana Alliance for Neuroscience: At this site you will find extensive information about the programs, activities, and publications of the Dana Foundation and the Dana Alliance, as well as material of interest to any one concerned about brain diseases and disorders and about innovative reforms that strengthen early education.
  • Neuropsychology Central: Included in this page are links to professional organizations, pre- and post-doctoral program information, individual neuropsychologist pages, assessment information, and sections covering different aspects of this ever growing field (e.g. cognitive, developmental, geriatric, etc.). Please feel free to browse, or link the page to your own page or database. In addition, a reader survey and an online forum are included to facilitate the expansion of this useful link.
  • Neurosync Visual Self Help Software: Visit Mindsurf and check out the patented software that is helping people remain positive about their self-help programs. Neurosync works by brain wave synchronization whilst operate other programs on your computer. Use as an augmentation to re-enforce positivity.
  • PNI Web Collection: Psychoneuroimmunology Resources: Collection of academic resources about psychoneuroimmunology on internet: Individuals & Institute.

Omega 3 Oils

  • Chill Out the Natural Way: "Fishy alternative to popping an anti-depressant: Omega-3-fatty acids - hailed for conferring protection against problems ranging from arthritis to heart disease and breast cancer - may also be a natural tranquilizer. Scientists have found that fish-oil pills seem to relieve the symptoms of people suffering manic depression."
  • Fish Oil May Fight Psychiatric Disorders: "The consumption of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids found in fish and fish oil may reduce the symptoms of a variety of psychiatric illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression, researchers report."
  • Alaska Fish Oil: Omega 3 Fatty Acids in Bipolar Disorder." Order Alaska Fish Oil online.
  • Mega EPA - Fish Oil: "Eating more fish holds promise in the prevention and treatment of a number of devastating mental illnesses, including major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, the scientists said last week."

General

  • A Guide to wellness - Vita-Master Nutritional Software: Nutritional software database with holistic alternative health information on vitamins, herbs, health problems, alternative health practices and wellness therapies. Free trial download with full database.
  • Mind/Body Connection: A Therapeutic -Alternative -Holistic -Healing Solution - Program available for your agency. Developed over 40 years, with amazing results for Mental Health, Empowerment, Self-esteem, self worth etc. Taking charge of one's own life. Learning new life skills in a new environment, with a different species,throws curves to human expectaton.
  • Natural Health and Longevity Resource Center: "Resource Center for Natural Health, Spiritual Health, Alternative Medicine, Complementary Medicine, Longevity, Healing Methods, Holistic Health, and Alternative Therapies. Frequent updates on the latest health discoveries and healing methods from all over the world."
  • Natural Psychotherapy International: Natural psychotherapy is a creative, medication free, wholly natural and client empowering form of therapy. It is based on the best current empirical research and data. Natural psychotherapy is effective with all types of psychological problems and upsets - from the mildest to the most severe.
  • PANACEA: Explores different possible causes of most unwanted mental/physical conditions. Most of these involuntarily manifested states and their resultant real feelings have been previously (and wrongly) believed to be caused by mental or physical disease, genetic defects, or subtle brain chemical imbalances...flawed idea that emotional abnormality is due to some malfunction..."
  • Well Mind Association Alternative Medicine Newsletter: Lectures, tapes, articles available.