Trauma and attachment breaks create neurological reactivity in a child's brain, limiting his or her ability to function. For a child whose nervous and endocrine systems have been impacted by trauma and attachment breaks, the symptoms of un-resolved traumatic stress make daily life extremely difficult.

Attachment and Bonding issues such as Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) often occur in children who have experienced severe trauma and arise from a failure to form normal attachments to primary caregivers in early childhood. Children with Attachment and Bonding issues and RAD feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety and emotion. 

Many traditional approaches to treatment for the (RAD) and severe trauma are only partially effective. Children with severe trauma and attachment disruptions become dysregulated in their survival behavior/neurology during a triggering event.

Because Integrative Re-Solutions helps regulate and retrain the brain and addresses the core symptoms of sense of self and other, of emotional bonding, and of empathy, it has been shown to be a highly effective treatment. 

Brighten the Brain uses a systemic, multi-disciplinary and advanced trauma-informed approach to support Attachment and Bonding.  Consultation to teach parents how to create a regulated state for their child and themselves is paramount. Brighten the Brain succeeds by using the most efficient form of treatment available to systemically address PTSD, secondary PTSD, and RAD. In the past, this has been difficult terrain because even well-grounded, skilled, clear, caring, loving parents and clinicians find it difficult to remain balanced when a child’s behavior is highly dysregulated. Based on previous abandonment, abuse and neglect, children with RAD exhibit a frequency and intensity of dysregulated behavior that is consistent with survival neurobiology (fight/flight/freeze). Integrative Re-Solutions gives a jumpstart to the neurobiology of these traumatized children as well as the parents who are struggling with secondary trauma.

Brighten the Brain uses sophisticated technology and neurologically based strategies to upgrade the physiology of traumatized or attachment-disturbed children. Integrative Re-Solutions creates a healthy nervous system with which children can optimize their ability to regulate their own behavior. With these techniques, the behavioral symptoms that would create havoc for a biological family, prevent a family from adopting a child, or create the need for a higher level of treatment for a child in the foster-care system are eliminated or reduced significantly.

Integrative Re-Solutions has helped children with RAD feel calmer, more balanced emotionally, more readily able to handle the conflicts, difficulties, and stresses of everyday life.  These children become less easily alarmed, less aggressive and impulsive.

At their root, many attachment problems – per Dr. Daniel Schore, of UCLA - are in fact problems of self-regulation.
They can’t calm down. They can’t manage emotion. And there are other significant developmental issues that can
occur as a result of attachment problems.