Are you ready to end the cycle of stress and anxiety in your life?

You’ve come to the right place. Dr. Sylva works with individuals who are challenged by stress, anxiety, ADHD, relationship issues, career challenges, phobias, low self-esteem, health concerns, weight issues, sleep difficulties, PTSD, and more.

Dr. Sylva’s Approach to Healing

As a Board-Certified Psychoneurologist, Dr. Sylva uses a “whole-person” approach to help clients achieve the results they desire. She believes that long-lasting change occurs when the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of a person are integrated in a safe environment where clients can experience heart-centered healing.

Clients are guided by Dr. Sylva to gain insights into their presenting issues by uncovering underlying patterns and behaviors, and then discovering a deeper truth. She then helps clients create new resources (mind/brain neuropathways) and daily rituals that are essential for positive and lasting change.

Her approach brings clients to a deeper understanding of how their conscious, unconscious, and superconscious mind works, and then provides them with tools to move their life in a positive direction with a greater sense of balance.

As Dr. Sylva says:
“I help a client determine their mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual goals and support them in achieving these goals. I believe that you are already perfect and whole. If you want to live in greater peace, joy, abundance, and perfect health—and enjoy the freedom to realize all of life’s possibilities on a daily basis—you must take steps to get there. I provide the help you need to return to the perfection of who you are.”

An Explanation of Psychoneurology

The approach of psychoneurology to creating wellness and thriving does not require a diagnosis or labeling of the client. Its underlying premise is that each individual is already perfect and whole, rather than broken or diseased. Instead of focusing on “fixing” a broken person, psychoneurology helps clients develop new resources and understandings that enhance their lives in service of reaching their highest level of thriving.

Psychoneurology is based on a four-step model:

• Step 1: Determine what you want to create or experience (the objective), known as the pre-frame.

• Step 2: Determine where you are now, called calibration.

• Step 3: Identify the resource that will get you there, called identifying the resource.

• Step 4: Use that resource so it becomes part of you, called integration.

The Fundamental Distinctions Between Psychoneurology and Other Mental Health Approaches

The pathology-driven approach of most mental health methods strives to identify and label or diagnose the “problem” at hand. The practitioners focus is on the particular disease or disorder and attempting to eliminate it, or at least its symptoms. This approach is based on the premise that the client is not where they want to be because of their challenges or “blocks.” Most mental health practitioners (psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, MFTs, and even most life coaches) concentrate on eradicating these blocks—with the implication that once the blocks are removed, the desired results will follow.

By contrast, a psychoneurologist helps clients access the resources or learning that make the entire label of disease irrelevant. Instead of categorizing a person with a disorder, psychoneurology identifies what the individual needs in order to succeed and thrive. It introduces a new set of processes that educate the client—consciously or unconsciously—to use their brain and nervous system more effectively so they can create completely new results. This is a radical innovation that applies leading-edge technology to ancient wisdom.

What Is Integrative Healing?

Integrative healing is about seeing the person as already “whole” and helping them return to balance from a place of imbalance. In Dr. Sylva’s practice, she may “prescribe” exercise regimens, make healthy eating suggestions, or refer clients to other health practitioners (e.g., craniosacral practitioners, physicians, chiropractors, etc.) when appropriate.

Integrative healing is a holistic approach that supports the body, mind, and spirit so that clients can achieve the best possible outcomes.