Help me ideate on a business to help people with TMS!

Hi Nora and everyone...my first thought was therapists! Reach out to NASW and pitch your idea..or maybe a school..I'm in my second year of grad school for social work at the University of Kentucky. (I'm actually in Rhode Island..it's an online program) I'd be happy to ask one of my professors if they would like to chat with you. I started getting into social work because like you I wanted to help people..and I'd like to be a TMS therapist in Rhode Island..as I have yet to find one. Especially one who takes low income or state insurance.

 

@Mitzie Hi! Thanks for your reply. I'm always trying to learn what tools people would want to use / be helpful. It sounds like maybe a TMS therapist finding tool would be helpful?

 

thank you Jan! This is helpful. I am wondering if you’ve heard of or tried Lin Health or Menda? I believe they have some sort of network of mind-body clinicians - so I’m curious if that ever came up / what is missing.

 

Hi..yes..and also I'm wondering if therapist's are hesitant to say TMS is one of their approaches..or if getting TMS into curriculums is a good place to start.

 

Some of my husbands clients have access to these two services. I think they are pretty much trained by Alan Gordon. Pain Reprocessing is a common term that is used. They base their findings on a faulty nervous system and stay away from the subject of emotions.

 

Actually Alan Gordon’s Pain Reprocessing Therapy does not "stay away from the subject of emotions." Gordon’s Treatment Outline for Pain Reprocessing Therapy (https://www.painreprocessingtherapy...1/03/PRT-Supplementary-Materials-for-Site.pdf) is organized under four Roman numerals. The fourth one is
"Addressing other emotional threats.” “Other” means other than the emotion of fear. The discussion of other emotional threats in the Treatment Outline includes in part the following:

"PRT thus aims to lower a person’s overall threat level. This can include helping someone process threatening emotions, a history of trauma, difficult relationships, and more. . . . Techniques for expressing, disclosing, and processing difficult emotions from several relevant therapeutic approaches (e.g., emotional awareness and expression therapy) can be used for this component of PRT.”
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Emotional awareness and expression therapy was created and scientifically tested by Alan Gordon’s good friend and colleague in the Boulder Back Pain study of PRT for back pain, i.e., by Dr. Howard Schubiner.

 

Jan..this is a great idea! Right now I'm searching and searching for a TMS therapist to do my grad school practicum with and it's a struggle. An app that I could use to find a LCSW who is using a TMS approach is something I would download, and probably pay for, in a second.