ABOUT US

TherapistCare is a Registered Trademark with the USPTO.

Started in 2002 by Beppy Albers Michel, MA, MS, BCN, EMDR, as a trauma specialist in Palos Verdes California, who facilitated her clients release of toxic energy by the use of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing).

She was born in Amsterdam and arrived at Ellis Island at the age of eighteen months with her parents and siblings.  Her father, an inventor had always been plagued by his PTSD due to his and his workers capture by the Nazis.  He did escape on the way to the trains. His workers did not.  However, this sensitivity remained and like so many therapists, the initial call to the profession might be to understand their own dilemmas as well as those they care about.

Beppy, who has a Masters Degree in Art Psychotherapy and a Masters of Science in Marriage Family Therapy is Licensed by the State of California as a Marriage Family Therapist, #47235. She is also Certified by the Board of Behavioral Science and offers graduate education to Licensed Professionals furthering their ceus (continuing education units) in license renewal through the CEPA program.  See www.ceus2enjoy.com.  

BCN is the designation given to those who are Board-Certified in Neurofeedback training, an international certification.  2020 finds very few and currently only two in the State of California. This ties in with the EMDR as they both help to focus the brain on specific found needs.  Plasticity is the amazing concept that our brains can change- alter to fit needs. (So much exciting current research shows how a victim of a stroke is now able to get help and support from the non-damaged part of the brain) EMDR, as bi-lateral brain stimulation helps the individual reach and heal through the REM brain stage in the protocol.  Neurofeedback has as a protocol a focus of brain wave speeds and motivates the child, individual to more helpful speeds as it is known to effectively alter and heal w/o drugs, the ADHD scenario.  These are all different applications,and protocols but all tie in to the fact that our incredible brains can adapt and heal in miraculous ways.  As my main focus has always been as a trauma therapist I have seen the healing in a profound light.  All change, whether good or bad is destabilizing in some way.  There have been times when a client has achieved a long-sought-after peace only to think something was incredibly wrong.  It has been fun to share with them the documented science in showing that their brain, in fact, their whole system changes cellularly with healing.  Incredible.  

As an affirmative part of healing, Hypnotherapy offers much in the way of Visualization and Affirmative self-definition.  Trained at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Beppy finds in this adjunctive therapy avenues of healing and a soothing “let-go” for her clients, typically at the end of the session.  

Art Therapy is a profound, not yet fully appreciated modality used in the therapy room and through artists throughout time. Beppy has published her book Art Psychotherapy, an Experiential Workbook for the Professional  in 2017.  In May of that year it was featured in “Psychology Today, which has a readership of four million.  Her Art Therapy Research was previously published in the international magazine “The Professional Counselor.”

Beppy states that she defines herself first and foremost an Artist.  Being in a state of creativity is “Heaven on earth.”

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Please check the Resources section to access the CPR video and share.  It is my hope and concern that soon in our schools we will encourage our students to feel more confidence with life-saving lessons as well as creative ventures in Art and Music.  And how about Physical Education?- I still remember the joy of jumping hurdles.  “Local level education” will bring this in again for our precious youth.