How BEMER came into WHI was through my sister. She was having undiagnosed medical issues for years and her veterinarian, who was privy to her medical reasons for canceling her dogs vet appointments, suggested that she use BEMER to help support her while finding out what was going on with her. Her condition was suspected
Dr. Adam is presenting on his healing experiences with the Bulk Blink. Within the framework of the Addiction as Dissociation Model, the educational material is delivered experientially to the participants. Through the lens of his dissociative-informed Meeting Area Screening and Assessment (MASA), participants will also learn how to utilize dual attention states of awareness to
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The Corporate Coma: When Systems Get Addicted We often talk about individuals being addicted to substances or behaviors. But what if the systems that run our world—your bank, your legal system, your insurance company, and the political machine—are suffering from an undiagnosed, chronic addiction? At the Wounded Healers Institute (WHI), we see evidence of this
Moral Rebellion and the Constitutional Unconscious: A Dissociation-Informed Analysis of Western Sovereignty and the Path of the Wounded Healer Abstract This paper provides a historical and psychological analysis of seminal Western political and spiritual documents—Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, and the foundational U.S. documents—through the theoretical lens of the Path of the
The Wounded Healers Institute (WHI), through the lens of the Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM), views the psychological distress known as Gender Dysphoria (GD) or Gender Discomfort (GDC) not as a primary condition, but as a severe somatic manifestation of unresolved trauma and chronic dissociation. This perspective is particularly critical for understanding the high co-occurrence
Are you planning a trip to Costa Rica for Aya? Are you planning on going to Jamaica to do shrooms to heal from your depression? In my clinical, professional, and personal experience those who are unprepared for psychedelic work are those who do not know what prepared looks like because they are not resourced enough,
Wounded Healers Institute is introducing our experiential learning to help those heal from educational, institutional, developmental and attachment, betrayal, spiritual, religious, and existential traumas that are often the root causes and the more pronounced unresolved traumas that often accommany quantifiable trauma and stress-related conditions. WHI School offers an education in emotional intelligence (EI) through social
An Expert Response to Reductionist Theories of Substance Use Disorder I. Executive Synthesis: The Wounded Healer Framework A. Introduction: The Crisis of Explanatory Monism The discourse surrounding Substance Use Disorder (SUD) is often trapped in a restrictive dichotomy: the moral failure model, which assigns blame, versus the deterministic brain disease model, which suggests total biological
Imagine that you had evidence reveals a pattern of excessive slow-wave activity (Delta and Theta) and a globally slowed Alpha Peak Frequency (APF) and points to hypercoherence—abnormally over-synchronized communication—across brain regions. This isn’t a medical diagnosis, but it’s objective data showing significant deviations from the norm that correlate with cognitive, emotional, and behavioral challenges often
Ever wondered what is going on inside your brain? Ever wondered what your brain looks like on a qEEG Brain Map? The strength of QEEG lies precisely in its ability to assess functional information processing disorders, which is why were are opening our process to learning, and WHI School, and Dissociative learning. As a part
WHI is excited to have produced this manual. O’Brien, A. (2025f). Path of the Wounded Healer’s Education and Training Manual for EMDR Therapy, Brainspotting, and Psychedelic Care. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/ Please see our training schedule to start your education in our model and approaches.
We often think of coercive control in the context of intimate relationships – a pattern of abuse where one person systematically strips another of their liberty, dignity, and sense of self. But what if this insidious dynamic extends far beyond individual relationships, manifesting within the very systems designed to govern and protect us? Drawing on
The Legal Fiction of Equality: How “Separate but Equal” Professional Standards Perpetuate Systemic Illness
The Digital Doctor-Patient Relationship: Why NSA Surveillance Could Be the Ultimate HIPAA Violation
Research consistently identifies trauma as a significant risk factor in the development of eating disorders.
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD), also known as Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD), is a condition where an individual’s physical hearing remains intact, yet the brain struggles to recognize and interpret sounds, including speech. Common symptoms include difficulty discerning the origin of sounds, comprehending rapid speech or conversations in noisy environments, attention deficits, challenges with reading
The WHI models present a unique, transdiagnostic framework that conceptualizes trauma, dissociation, and addiction as interconnected phenomena, with a strong emphasis on the body as the psychological unconscious and the importance of “unconscious informed consent.”
Introduction: Reconceptualizing Batterer Intervention and Healing Domestic Violence (DV) and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) represent pervasive societal challenges, impacting an estimated one in six American couples and leading to profound negative consequences for both victims and aggressors. The inherent emotional weight, embarrassment, and shame surrounding these issues significantly impede empirical study and the development of
Introduction As a professional, imagine walking into a new client’s house for the first time and discovering that the parents had a fully functioning prison in their basement (complete with staff, armed guards, and administration) for when their children were misbehaving, and a full lab for drug testing analysis. Now, imagine you are a licensed
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We do not promote illegal activities or provide resources for obtaining illegal substances or illegal psychedelic or psychotherapy services.
The Wounded Healers Institute does not sell THC cannabis for any aspect of our program, training or events, and it is not a retailer, supplier, manufacturer, reseller, distributor, agent, representative or subcontractor of THC cannabis supplier or retailer.
WHI sells superfoods and supplements. Our healing services do not constitute medical care, physical therapy, and we do not diagnose or treat mental health. WHI is a wellness and recovery program.
What we do do is provide educational experiences, create positive memories of healing that allow participants to access to their own innate healing and creative process. WHI provides wellness programming, posttraumatic growth opportunities, and skills to build resiliency factors that allow our healing model. WHI employs the spiritual and developmental model of Addiction as Dissociation and uses The Path of the Wounded Healer as our unconscious guide. See our research HERE
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