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Welcome to Emotional Brain Training

Emotional Brain Training is a Revolutionary Method to Reduce Stress: the Underlying Cause of Obesity, Anxiety and Depression

Improve Mood ...

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Emotional Brain Training enables people to address the root cause of anxiety and depression by acquiring the skills to effectively process stress.

Stressed Children?

Relationship Therapy
The EBT for Kids Specialty Groups support families in easing stress.

Decrease Stress ...

Stress Managment
Emotional Brain Training teaches the tools to process the stress of daily life more effectively and move to feeling relaxed and positive.

Treat Hypertension

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In a UCSF study, Emotional Brain Training was associated with lowering systolic and diastolic blood pressure in the short & long term.

Lose Weight ...

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Emotional Brain Training is the only method other than weight loss surgery that has shown continued weight loss after treatment ends.

Increase Intimacy

Relationship Therapy
The EBT for Couples Specialty Groups helps couples move from merging and distancing to being intimate and connected.

Emotional Brain Training will teach you how to identify your stress level and improve it, so that more of the time you will find yourself in emotional balance and feeling at your best. EBT uses a 5-point scale to identify your stress level, or brain state, and there's one tool to use for each stress level. That tool gives you the most effective way to switch from that brain state to the brain state of optimal functioning.

EBT is a method that can work for anyone, as it is based on cutting edge neuroscience. You can use it for several purposes:
- to improve health and alleviate stress symptoms (e.g., depression, anxiety, overeating, relationship difficulties, and medical conditions such as high blood pressure).
- to experience freedom from cravings and common excesses.
- to access an abundance of life’s natural rewards: sanctuary (a secure connection with yourself), authenticity, vibrancy, integrity, intimacy, and spirituality.

The first step in using EBT is to take introductory training, where you will learn what the tools are and how they work, as well as have a chance to try them out. The second step is to complete the six courses (EBT Kits) so that you can become highly effective in processing daily stress. Over time as you rewire your emotional brain, stress symptoms fade and the natural rewards of life become more abundant. You will rewire your brain from stress to joy.

EBT Support

Emotional Brain Training
To support your success in completing the courses that rewire the emotional brain, we offer a range of services. Our experience has been that these skills are best gained in community.

Learn more about the developer of EBT: Laurel Mellin

Over the past 30 years, as a faculty member at the University of California,
San Francisco, Laurel Mellin has been on the forefront of developing
science-based interventions that improve health.

Before Laurel created Emotional Brain Training (formerly named "The Solution
Method" ), she developed a program of childhood obesity (Shapedown) which is
still provided internationally. Currently she is involved in research and
training based on EBT for the treatment of stress problems and the promotion
of health and happiness.

Stress Managment
Emotional Brain Training (EBT) is a transdisciplinary method aimed at rewiring the emotional brain. It offers a scientific solution to stress based on an integration of a broad range of sciences, with emphasis on neuroplasticity, attachment theory and stress science.

How do I get the Skills of EBT?


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