The DBT Center of Wyoming LLC

07/15/2025

This event is free to the public!!! Come check out a day of Yoga!!! Even a kids event- these ladies have went above and beyond!!!

Get Ready for the Casper Karma Yoga Fest!🌼

We are thrilled to unveil our diverse and dynamic class lineup for this year’s festival! Join us in celebrating wellness, community, and the transformative power of yoga in five unique areas:

🕉️ Big Tent: Experience a variety of invigorating yoga sessions and workshops.

🎶 Band Shell: Flow to the rhythm with music-infused yoga classes that elevate your practice.

🌳 Trees/Meditation Area: Find peace and tranquility with guided meditations and gentle yoga under this serene canopy.

🔥 Hot Yoga Dome: Turn up the heat and detoxify with our intense hot yoga sessions.

👶 Kids Corner: Fun and engaging classes tailored just for our mini yogis!

🗓️ Saturday, July 20th. 8a-8p
📍 Washington Park. 1030 S. McKinley, Casper, WY

Mark your calendars and get ready to immerse yourself in a weekend of yoga, mindfulness, and community spirit. We can’t wait to see you there!

07/10/2025

How ADHD and TBI Mimic Each Other — And Why Rewiring the Brain Can Heal Both

When we think about ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), we often picture two completely different paths—one you’re born with, and one you acquire through trauma. But here’s the surprising truth: ADHD and TBI share many of the same symptoms, and both reflect underlying neurological dysfunction that can be addressed through brain-based healing.

This isn’t just a matter of semantics—it’s a shift in perspective. And it can change the way we treat, support, and even understand the brain.

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Shared Symptoms, Shared Roots

Both ADHD and TBI affect the brain’s ability to regulate, focus, and stay in sync. Here are some of the overlapping symptoms:
• Inattention and distractibility
• Poor working memory
• Impulsivity and disinhibition
• Emotional dysregulation (e.g., mood swings, frustration)
• Executive dysfunction (difficulty with planning, organization, follow-through)
• Sensory overload or hypersensitivity
• Sleep disruptions

These challenges are often traced to dysfunction in the prefrontal cortex, disrupted dopamine signaling, and issues in brain network connectivity—particularly the default mode network, which governs our internal focus and self-awareness.

Whether it’s a brain injury or developmental neurodivergence like ADHD, the bottom line is the same: the brain’s “wiring” isn’t working efficiently.

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ADHD as Neurological Injury

What if we stopped thinking about ADHD purely as a behavioral or attention problem—and started seeing it as a kind of neurological injury? Not in the traumatic sense, like a concussion, but as a brain wired in a way that struggles to regulate, connect, and prioritize.

When we reframe ADHD this way, we move from a place of judgment (“Why can’t they just focus?”) to a place of compassion and curiosity (“What’s happening in the brain, and how can we support it?”).

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The Brain Can Heal: Neuroplasticity in Action

Here’s the most hopeful part: The brain can change.

Thanks to neuroplasticity, the brain has the ability to reorganize itself—to grow new pathways, strengthen existing ones, and adapt to new ways of functioning. This is true whether you’re healing from a concussion or navigating a lifetime of ADHD.

Neuro-rewiring is not a quick fix—but it is possible. And it’s powerful.

Ways to Rewire the Brain:
• Brainspotting: A therapy that accesses and processes stored trauma or stress through visual and neurological pathways.
• Neurofeedback: Trains the brain to self-regulate by giving real-time feedback on brainwave activity.
• Mindfulness and meditation: Helps regulate attention and calm the nervous system.
• Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT): Strengthens executive functioning through structured thinking and behavior patterns.
• Somatic therapies and movement: Ground the body and mind, helping integrate emotional and sensory experiences.
• Nutrition, sleep, and lifestyle: Foundational to any neurological healing process.

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One Nervous System, Many Paths to Healing

ADHD and TBI might have different origins, but they often affect the same brain systems. When we understand both as expressions of a dysregulated nervous system, we can focus on what helps the brain heal, not just how it was hurt.

This integrative approach opens up new possibilities for healing—not just managing symptoms, but restoring balance, improving function, and reclaiming self-trust.

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Final Thoughts

If you or someone you love is living with ADHD, recovering from a TBI, or both, know this:
You are not broken. Your brain may be dysregulated—but it is capable of healing.

With the right tools, therapies, and support, we can begin the process of rewiring the brain, calming the nervous system, and building the resilience needed to thrive.

06/04/2025

06/04/2025

This!!! Dialectics means that two opposite things can be true at once- once we start to manage both truths rather than trying to force extremes we cope so differently hence Dialectical Behavioral Therapy or DBT The DBT Center of Wyoming LLC

Just a reminder that 2 things can be true at once. You can be a strong independent manly man who takes care of your family AND need to talk about YOUR mental health.

We live in a world full of buts, however, we need to have more ands!!!

In Wyoming we embrace our culture... "rub some dirt in it, cowboy up, man up" AND we all have mental health... so when things are hard, we are stuck in a funk, and there is something we need to get off our chests ... DO IT!!

Rub some dirt in it AND talk about it

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps AND ask for help

Man up AND speak up

Let's do this and change the conversation from but to and!!!

05/14/2025

Feeling stuck in talk therapy? There’s another way.

Brainspotting is a powerful, brain-based therapy that helps you access and process deep emotional pain—without needing to talk through every detail.

Where traditional talk therapy focuses on the conscious mind, BRAINSPOTTING goes deeper—right to the source of trauma and emotional blocks, stored in the body and nervous system.

Why Brainspotting?
Because healing doesn’t always happen through words.

If you or your teen feel like you’ve “talked it out” but still carry the weight, it might be time for something different.

**Now accepting new patients—teens & adults—starting July 1st in Casper, Wyoming.**
Let’s find the calm under the chaos, together.

**Message to schedule a free consult or learn more.**

04/15/2025

https://www.dbtcenterofwyoming.com/

Schedule directly here :)

The DBT Center of Wyoming offers individual counseling (adults & teens), family counseling, couples counseling, DBT group therapy (adult & teens) and Brainspotting trauma therapy. We accept most insurance and work with patients on a sliding fee scale for those without insurance.

04/15/2025

My Beliefs ✨️ people have tried traditional talk therapy for far too long- leaving people to feel lost and dysregulated without seeing deep benefit-

Check out my upcoming beliefs post to learn more about how I approach therapy on a neurological level.

I was born and raised in Wyoming.

I love to bow hunt, target shoot, ride ATVS, go camping, travel & explore and most of all I love yoga 🧘‍♀️ I'm a Christian- and also nothing like you would typically expect- I cuss- I'm working on it ;) I'm open about what it's like to struggle in life-

I've dealt with my own addictions- my own significant trauma and abandonment- I've learned the hard way about toxic relationships and I've learned how to rebuild- SEVERAL TIMES.

My approach is centered around authenticity and non judgment to an extreme degree.

I have a Master's Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and specialize in treating trauma from a neurological approach.

I have two kiddos, a six year old daughter and a ten year old son.

Check out my upcoming beliefs post to learn more about how I approach therapy on a neurological level.

04/06/2025

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As you continue to experience healing, sometimes you discover that not all others benefit from the healed version of you.

The solution cannot be found in the same environment that created the problem. You must rise above and let what doesn't benefit you stay behind.

10/08/2024

Su***de Prevention Annual Lip Sync Battle

Thank you for everyone who came out to show support towards preventing people from feeling like they are so miserable that it would be better to die than to keep trying.

Let's talk about what we are really going through. Please reach out, find a crisis line, call the team, talk to your counselor. If you just don't know how to deal anymore- tell someone. It's never too late.

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09/13/2024

So excited to see you all there!

Vendor Highlight: The DBT Center of Wyoming LLC
We’re looking forward to having Andrea Garlick with The DBT Center of Wyoming at the Sport and Wellness Expo! Specializing in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Andrea Garlick is dedicated to helping individuals manage emotional regulation, improve interpersonal skills, and navigate mental health challenges.

Visit their booth to learn more about DBT and how it can help you or your loved ones enhance mental wellness and build healthier coping strategies.

07/31/2024

Accepting new patients for DBT Skills Group *not a therapy group* which teaches how to manage emotions through a biological approach, changing your body chemistry, rather than through a cognitive approach, changing your thinking.

Also accepting new patients for individual therapy and brainspotting trauma intensive therapy.

I accept most insurances and offer a sliding fee scale cash pay rate for those without insurance.

The most common thing I hear is:

Well I've tried this and this and this. Or anything you suggest- they've already done it.

When we hit that situation- first I want to validate that emotion can be extremely overwhelming. One of my favorite authors says it's not that your doing life wrong or there is some hidden secret that you just can't figure out, it's actually that the secret is- your doing it right and life is just really hard sometimes, FOR EVERYONE.

When you feel hopeless- emotion and your mind start to remind you of every time you've ever felt that way. It then begins to attempt to convince you of every time you will always feel that way in the future- but it is lying to you.

Emotions are a biological reaction that occur along your nervous system and the brain is a muscle.

This means not only can it be managed biologically- everything that has been learned can be unlearned.

Plus nothing in nature is naturally occurring with a positive charge- anything that you can find in nature has a neutral or negative charge. The same is true with emotions. If you want to feel positive emotions, you have to create it.

If you'd like to learn more about how to manage emotions and life through a biological approach send me a message or call the office at 307.381.8307

**For you science buffs, there are components, protons, that have a positive charge- they are however surrounded by a negative electron which results in the entire molecule testing negative or in most cases neutral, unless influenced or separated- in which case it can be altered to become positive with more protons than electrons.**

07/13/2024

Office is closed July 13th- July 22nd. See you all in a few weeks!