About Geral
Geral (Gerry) Blanchard, LPC, is university trained in psychological and anthropological approaches that can address a variety of mental health issues including trauma and addictions in a holistic fashion. He has decades of experience addressing matters of interpersonal violence, traumatization, as well as behavioral and substance addictions. Geral has served as a consultant and trainer for scores of social service agencies, prisons, and chemical dependency treatment centers. Geral has lectured widely throughout the U.S. and additionally in Sweden, Canada, Ecuador, and Nicaragua. He has authored a variety of books on the subjects of sexual abuse, post-traumatic growth (PTG), and the incorporation of indigenous healing traditions in today’s psychotherapeutic settings. Gerry is a regular contributor to the UK Shamanism magazine, Sacred Hoop.
Geral has introduced himself to a variety of novel, yet safe, plant and pharmaceutical medicines, treating patients who are suffering from:
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Guiding Values
Serve everyone compassionately and attentively. Offer more expansive and hopeful approaches than conventional therapies can provide.
Collaborate – invite active patient participation in all aspects of healing. Tailor healing strategies to the individual – the whole person.
Treat therapy as a flexible, personal, and relational engagement, far more than a technique oriented and mechanical process.
Holistic Care
Currently, Geral educates patients and health care providers on proper set and setting for the ceremonial use of pure MDMA. He has also consulted at a ketamine treatment center, and has monitored research results using psilocybin, a very encouraging treatment for several protracted mental and physical health issues.
Geral has long been influenced by the fields of functional and orthomolecular psychiatry, and nutrition. These subspecialties frequently use amino acids, and a variety of vitamins, nutrients, and herbal supplements to resolve mental health issues. He also employs Alpha-stim mild transcranial electrical stimulation (not to be confused with electroconvulsive therapy) to safely and efficiently eradicate anxiety, depression, and insomnia.
Philosophy
Geral’s consideration of the neuroscientific and nutritional underpinnings of many emotional conditions can diminish stigmatizing repercussions resulting from our mental health industry’s haphazard penchant for applying diagnostic labels. Additionally, he believes that much of what is regarded as a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be better understood as normal and expected results of abnormal and unexpected adversities.
Vision
Expand the range of patient services that reverently blends ancient and modern healing processes including sacred healing rituals and state-of-the-art neuroscientific interventions.
“I have been prescribed every psychiatric medicine under the sun for over thirty years with no success. I think my treatment was more traumatic than my original adversities. Now I am off nearly all of them and am discovering the drug-free version of myself. Never before have I worked with someone as thorough, informed, kind, and responsive as Geral Blanchard.”