Course Overview

The webinar provides an explanation about “fight or flight” and “rest and digest” nervous systems and how the skills and tools presented are used to tone down the first and activate the second.

Most of the tools presented in this course are “bottom-up” interventions (meaning that the intervention starts by making a change to the body which then produces a change in the brain). Two of the exercises are examples of “top-down” interventions (meaning that the intervention starts in the brain and affects the body).

Skills and tools taught in this lesson include: deep breathing, a body scan, grounding, distraction techniques, a gratitude exercise, a future diary entry, and lastly, advice for improved sleep.

Audience: Patients-Adults diagnosed with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) and their loved ones/caregivers

Additional audience: Health professionals (mental health professionals including psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, psychiatric nurses, nurse practitioners, and psychological associates, etc.)

Course content

  1. Toolbox for patients with PNES

About this course

  • $18.00
  • 1 lesson
  • 0.5 hours of video content

About Dr. Lorna Myers

Dr. Lorna Myers

Psychologist

Dr. Lorna Myers is the director of the Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) Program in New York and New Jersey, USA. She is a clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist and has been working with patients who have PNES and/or epilepsy for over 20 years. Her research has been published in a number of scientific journals, she has authored professional book chapters, and presents in meetings across the US and abroad. In 2013, she wrote “Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: A Guide,” a book for patients and their caregivers. Royalties from that book are donated to Epilepsy Alliance America, a foundation that awards scholarships to adults diagnosed with PNES to help with the costs of their studies. In 2023, together with her Dr. Julia Doss, she co-authored “The Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizure Pocketbook.”

Dr. Myers is a certified prolonged exposure therapist and clinical supervisor and has pioneered the modification and use of this treatment modality for patients diagnosed with PTSD and PNES. She is also certified in integrative hypnosis.

Other interesting facts about her is that she is fluent in English and Spanish, and her other main research interest is in multicultural topics including treatment of bilingual and bicultural (or monocultural Hispanic) patients and the study of neuropsychological measures for Spanish-speaking patients evaluated in the US.