Through her private psychotherapy practice in South Portland, Maine Dr. Carole Orem-Hough works closely with clients to bring about positive change in their mental health. She relies on effective treatments like IFS (Internal Family Systems) to help people overcome their challenges, especially those related to trauma. Moreover, Dr. Carole Orem-Hough treats traumatic brain injury as well as cognitive decline using a technique called “qEEG guided neurofeedback.” To support her with her clinical skills she attends the International Society for Neurofeedback Annual Conference.
In preparation to becoming a licensed clinical psychologist in Maine, Dr. Carole Orem completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Maine Medical Center in Portland. While there, she conducted group and individual psychotherapy sessions in addition to teaching a treatment method called DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy).
Before transitioning to the psychology field, Dr. Orem-Hough worked as an industrial engineer with Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis. Her responsibilities included conducting productivity analyses in preparation for automation. Later, she served as an account executive with IBM, selling mainframe systems.
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A psychologist and a member of the Maine Psychological Association, Dr. Carole Orem owns WholeBrainMaine in South Portland, Maine. Her focus is brain health and trauma. As a licensed clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, Dr. Carole Orem helps her patients resolve trauma with Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR is a brain-based technique and very effective in resolving trauma symptoms including complex PTSD.
The first step in EMDR is taking the patient’s history and planning the treatment for the subsequent sessions. Next the therapist and patient talk about the patients’ expectations and the patient is instructed on relaxation methods they can use after sessions to help them calm and self-soothe.
During treatment, the patient is asked to hold the memory in their mind, sense the resulting emotions in their body and the negative belief they hold around that memory and then use their eyes to follow the movement of the psychologist’s finger or light on a light bar. The point is to connect the right and left hemispheres of the brain. With trauma one theory is that there is a disconnect between the left and right hemispheres. The left holding the narrative, and the right holding the emotion need to be integrated. EMDR is one method to do that.
EMDR typically is done over the course of many sessions. After the negative responses to the trauma decrease, the psychologist helps the patient install a positive belief replacing the negative one, checks for any distressing body sensations related to the trauma and continues the process until it is all resolved.
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Dr. Carole Orem is a Maine-based clinical psychologist who owns and runs Neuro Health Maine, a psychiatric medical service company that uses novel brain-based treatments to resolve trauma. In between helping her patients overcome trauma and volunteering at the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, Dr. Carole Orem enjoys gardening, which has been shown to alleviate mental health issues.
Gardening is not just about planting vegetables or potting plants and watching them thrive, it has a therapeutic value. Some psychologists, occupational therapists, and doctors even call it horticultural therapy. While there is no conclusive scientific evidence on just how gardening impacts the brain and mind, studies have established a strong link between plant care and trauma recovery.
Trauma recovery mimics the life of a plant. As you pot and tend to a plant, you connect with yourself and nature. Plant care is particularly beneficial for persons with depression or trauma, as the patience and care that go into gardening can be reflected in their recovery process.
So, whether you are dealing with challenging events in your life or looking for a relaxing, hands-on hobby, gardening can be the avenue you need to ‘lose yourself’ and achieve that therapeutic nature-self connection.
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Located in Maine, Dr. Carole Orem is a psychologist in private practice. As part of her work, Dr. Carole Orem employs brain-mapping with TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) therapy. This can be used in the treatment of cognitive decline and mental health disorders. More specifically, TMS has been proven to be effective at treating disorders such as depression, OCD, anxiety, PTSD, and migraines.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation is a non-invasive technique whereby an MRI-strength magnetic field passes through the scalp and bone to alter nerve-cell activity in the cortex. The field passes through a small coil placed over a patient’s scalp. TMS does not require anesthesia and can be practiced in an outpatient setting. The therapy has been proven to help patients who have not responded to other treatments.
TMS technology was developed in 1985 and approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 2008. Since then, studies have found consistent evidence that TMS therapy provides clinical benefits to patients with treatment-resistant depression {those who have not responded to at least one antidepressant). In a 2012 study, two-thirds of patients who underwent TMS experienced either full remission of depression symptoms or noticeable improvement. Dr. Orem’s practice has reached an even higher response rate of 75%. The ability to do TMS guided by a “brain map” allows for more precise treatment protocols and better outcomes.
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A clinical psychologist in private practice, Dr. Carole Orem specializes in transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy, brain mapping or quantitative electroencephalograms (qEEG). Dr. Carole Orem is engaged in the psychotherapeutic community and attends the annual conferences of the TMS Society, which recently commented on TMS treatments in relation to COVID-19 vaccinations.
The TMS Society is an association with the mission of raising awareness of and increasing accessibility to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation therapy. TMS therapy has been proven to help combat cognitive decline and mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and OCD. Since its inception in 2013, the TMS Society has worked to assist professionals in the community optimize TMS by expanding insurance coverage, increasing public awareness, and advertising TMS clinics.
In December 2020, Ashleigh Servadio, the executive director of the TMS Society, released a short piece recommending that TMS physicians and technicians providing direct patient care receive the COVID-19 vaccination in the same phase as other physicians and healthcare professionals. This will ensure that TMS clinics, which are essential to those undergoing TMS therapy, remain open. In turn, this will reduce the consequences of untreated severe mental illness during a pandemic that is disproportionately affecting those who have or are prone to mental illnesses.
A recent study found that patients with a mental health disorder who contracted COVID-19 had a hospitalization rate of 27.4 percent and death rate of 8.5 percent. Conversely, those who contracted COVID-19 without a mental illness had a hospitalization rate of 18.6 percent and a death rate of 4.7 percent. Because of these alarming figures, many health care professionals consider it essential that TMS clinics stay open to treat mental health patients. Vaccination is one way to help ensure patients can access this effective treatment.
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Based in Cumberland Foreside, Maine, Dr. Carole Orem-Hough is a licensed clinical psychologist who helps clients transform their lives. Dr. Carole Orem-Hough focuses on trauma resolution, using modalities such as EMDR and Internal Family Systems (IFS).
Trauma occurs when exposure to distressing and overwhelming events and the feelings that result do not resolve. These incidents and the unresolved responses can have a long-term impact on an individual’s ability to cope. Generally, people dealing with unprocessed trauma may struggle to feel a full range of emotions as they have shut down their emotional world as a way of coping. They can suffer from feelings of helplessness and may also experience a diminished sense of self among other things.
While trauma can occur at any age, the most debilitating trauma tends to arise from experiences in childhood. Childhood trauma is more common in certain populations, such as those who identify as people of color, members of the GLBTQ community, and those from low-income households. A significant study, known as the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, compiled results from over 9,500 adults who filled out a survey about their childhood experiences. This study found that individuals with a higher “ACE score” were two times as likely to smoke, 2.5 times as likely to have an STD, seven times as likely to identify as an alcoholic, 10 times as likely to have taken street drugs, and 12 times as likely to have attempted suicide. It is possible that these individuals use these maladaptive behaviors to alleviate the emotional and physical pain resulting from their trauma.
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Dr. Carole Orem-Hough serves as a licensed clinical psychologist in Cumberland Foreside, Maine, where she focuses on trauma resolution using IFS and EMDR. Dr. Carole Orem-Hough owns WholeBrainMaine, which provides brain health services to optimize brain function, including brain mapping.
Technology is making it easier than ever to evaluate the human body, including the brain. A relatively new, non-invasive technology known as qEEG (quantitative electroencephalogram) brain mapping helps clinicians look at a patient’s brain to better identify dysregulation. To complete a brain map, a clinician puts 19 sensors on the patient’s head. These sensors monitor brain activity and compile data.
This data is run through a database and compared to results from a “normal” brain in order to identify “abnormal” activity. Through this analysis, clinicians can more accurately target the areas of the brain that need treatment. They can develop neurofeedback protocols that target these areas. For example, if a patient struggles with concentration, a neurofeedback treatment can focus on improving connections and functions of the attention network portion of the brain. Brain mapping has been shown to be a valuable tool that poses virtually no risk to patients and can inform treatment in a significant way.
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The 2019 ISNR Annual Conference
The founder of WholeBrainMaine, Dr. Carole Orem-Hough provides treatment methods such as neurofeedback, cognitive decline reversal, and brain mapping through her psychotherapy practice in South Portland, Maine. A member of the International Society for Neurofeedback & Research (ISNR), Dr. Carole Orem-Hough regularly attends the group's annual conference. Supporting continued innovation in the field of neuroscience, ISNR has spearheaded ethical and clinical guidelines in the field, as well as promoting understanding and education in neurofeedback and other methods for improving cognitive function. Each year, the society's annual meeting provides the opportunity to network with other professionals and delve deeper into cutting-edge questions. The 27th Annual ISNR Conference will take place September 19-22, 2019, in Denver, Colorado, at the Denver Marriott Tech Center. Conferees can also attend pre-conference educational sessions taking place September 16-19. The conference itself will include a diverse range of keynote and plenary sessions, small group meetings, a clinical panel of experts, an awards ceremony and banquet, and exhibitor workshops. For a fee, participants can attend additional workshops in the afternoons. For more information and the conference schedule, visit the society's website at www.isnr.org.
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