About
Afra Moenter, PhD, MEd, LPC
Dr. Afra Moenter, founder and clinical director of the Boulder Center for NeuroHealth and founding member of FNDsociety holds a simple vision in mind: To bring together clinicians and healthcare providers with diverse expertise to support individuals diagnosed with epilepsy and/or functional neurological disorder (FND)
A clinician at heart, Dr. Moenter believes in the healing power of connection. She has witnessed how a deep body-based NeuroHealth process can be truly beneficial to individuals diagnosed with epilepsy and FND leading to an increased quality of life, and symptom reduction.
Through the Boulder Center for NeuroHealth, Dr. Moenter provides NeuroHealth Coaching, respiratory biofeedback, and the Safe&Sound Protocol, to both individuals diagnosed with epilepsy or FND and their friends and family. Dr. Moenter, based in her longstanding clinical experience, developed a treatment protocol for epilepsy and FND which is based on the four foundations of body, mind, emotion, and consciousness.
Dr. Moenter is currently licensed and in good standing in the following states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, South Dakota.
In addition, Dr. Moenter founded FNDcourage, an online psycho-educational course for individuals living with FND. Dr. Moenter is currently in the process of developing a training program for psychotherapists and practitioners in the healing profession who are interested in supporting individuals with FND.
Dr. Moenter has extensive experience in the realm of human psychology, complex trauma, epilepsy and functional neurological symptoms, bringing over twenty-five years of experience and a wide variety of trainings to her work. She received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Sciences with a concentration in Psychology and a specialization in Neuropsychology, as well as a M.A. in Therapeutic Psychology.
Her approach reflects the synthesis of various trainings that she has completed over the past 25 years:
- Gestalt therapy; a method of awareness which enables the client to focus on his/her experience in the present moment.
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Level II; a process that uses the body (rather than cognition or emotion) as a primary entry point into processing traumatic life-experiences.
- Hakomi Somatics; a psychotherapeutic approach based on the principle that mind and body jointly express and reflect deeply held, often unconscious beliefs about oneself and others.
- Trauma Dynamics, a psychotherapeutic method working specifically with individual, familial and cultural trauma.
Her doctoral research explored the causal relationship between complex partial epilepsy and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), shedding new light on psychotherapeutic approaches to support individuals diagnosed with epilepsy. You may download a free copy of her doctoral dissertation here.
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Boulder Center For NeuroHealth – Support for Individuals Diagnosed with Epilepsy and/or Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)