Sebern, at age four was abducted and abused. Her parents never believed her and by the time she was a young adult, she ended up in lengthy psychiatric hospitalization. She somehow pulled together and became a thriving psychotherapist and director of a residency program for severely disturbed youth. Despite Sebern and her team’s efforts, the success rate for this youth was abysmal. But in her 50s she discovered neurofeedback and felt, for the first time in her life, the quieting of the fear in her brain. It shifted completely her understanding of what was preventing the kids in her care to progress and led her to study neurofeedback and become one of the leading practitioner and teacher of neurofeedback for healing developmental trauma. In this episode, Sebern explores the impact of trauma on the brain and what that means for the future of understanding and healing mental illness.   

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