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MindWorks Psychology

MindWorks Psychology provides brain-based coaching, continuing education workshops and hypnotherapy

Founded by Dr. Elizabeth Michas in 2010, MindWorks Psychology trainings and workshops emphasize the practical application of the latest neuroscience research. The method is creative, atheoretical, applied, practical, and integrative, designed to inspire psychotherapists to use science to get extraordinary results in sessions while demystifying and de-stigmatizing mental/emotional/behavioral problems by relating them back to the workings of the human brain. Trainings include: Putting Neuroscience into Practice: Brain-Based Hypnotherapy Basic Training Course, Using Neuroscience to Clear Heartbreak, Emotional Pain Intervention (EPI)®: Learn to Play the Whole Brain For Transformational Change Using Brain-based, Integrative, Psychosensory Experiential Techniques For a Brain Changing Conversation. The contents of this page are strictly informational, educational, not therapy. If you would like to discuss making an appointment with Dr. Michas, please call her office at (850) 862-3141 during business hours. She is a network provider for Tricare and Medicare only, no other insurances are taken at her office.

11/06/2025

Sometimes, the most healing thing a client can do is simply let the thought drift away. 🍃

In brain-based therapy, we help clients understand that a thought is just that — a thought.
Not a permanent truth.
Not their identity.
Just a passing message from the brain, shaped by survival, not reality.

Using tools like hypnotherapy and guided imagery, we teach clients how to release their grip on painful beliefs — to send them “down the river.”

Not to ignore them… but to create space between who they are and what their brain once learned to believe.

Because when a client stops identifying with a thought like “I’m not safe” or “I need this to be okay,” they stop suffering because of it.
And that’s where the real change happens.

The emotional charge dissolves.
The nervous system regulates.

And the brain naturally reorganizes.

🧠 This is what it looks like when therapy speaks the language of the subconscious — and meets the brain where change actually happens.

If you’re ready to deepen your work with brain-based methods that transform reactivity into regulation...

🎓 Join me live for Regulate to Rewire: Advancing Emotional Resilience Through Brain-Based Methods — my newest CE-eligible masterclass where you’ll learn how to guide clients from stuck states into lasting emotional relief.

💬 Comment REWIRE below and I’ll send you the link to register.

11/05/2025

🔥 Therapists, counselors, coaches…
If no one ever taught you how the brain actually heals, it’s no wonder clients are staying stuck.

I’m sharing brain-based methods in a short, actionable masterclass that will show you how to work with the brain (not against it) — so you can help clients experience faster, lasting emotional change.

🧠 Join me for
Regulate to Rewire: Advancing Emotional Resilience Through Brain-Based Methods
—a free, CE-eligible masterclass on November 17th at 12pm EST designed to:
✔️ Move clients from emotional reactivity into resilient regulation
✔️ Show you exactly how the brain encodes safety, threat, and meaning
✔️ Equip you with practical neuroscience tools you can use right away
✔️ Help you use your own regulation to shift the entire therapeutic field

✨ Attend live and earn 1 hour of CE through MindWorks Psychology, LLC.

If you’re ready to blend compassion with science in your practice…
📥 Comment REWIRE below and I’ll send you the link

11/04/2025

💬 “The training was very interactive… covered history and useful tools that I’ll be able to immediately implement with my clients and in my own life.”
– Luz Zondlo, LMHC, Destin, FL

What if your next CE training wasn’t just theoretical…
…but actually gave you tools you could use the same day to shift emotional reactivity into resilient regulation—for both your clients and yourself?

That’s exactly what you’ll get in my upcoming CE-eligible masterclass:

🧠 Regulate to Rewire: Advancing Emotional Resilience Through Brain-Based Methods
In just one hour, you’ll learn how to:
✨ Apply neuroscience-informed tools to calm the nervous system and create lasting change
✨ Understand how the brain encodes safety, threat, and meaning
✨ Use your own regulation as a therapeutic tool
✨ Earn 1 CE credit (live attendance required)

If you’re a therapist, counselor, or coach ready to bring brain-based precision and real results into your practice, I’ll send you the registration link - just say ‘REWIRE’ below.⬇️

11/03/2025

When we work from a neuroplasticity framework, we stop seeing triggers as signs of failure—and start seeing them as opportunities to rewire.

Because here’s the truth:
Our survival brain isn’t the problem.
It’s protective, patterned, and doing exactly what it was trained to do.
Not because we’re broken—but because it once kept us safe.

Real change doesn’t come from forcing insight or avoiding discomfort.

It comes from helping clients:
🧠 Understand their reactions through a whole-brain lens
🧠 Normalize what’s happening without shame
🧠 Create new, safe experiences that the brain can actually learn from

When that happens, the shift is powerful:
💡 Shame turns into curiosity
💡 Avoidance becomes engagement
💡 Triggers become tools for transformation

This isn’t magic—it’s neuroplasticity in motion.
And every “stuck” belief, behavior, or reaction can be rewired with the right tools, safety, and understanding.

If you’re ready to help clients (and yourself) move from emotional reactivity to resilient regulation—

🎓 Drop ‘REWIRE’ below to join me for Regulate to Rewire, a CE-eligible masterclass where I’ll show you how to apply brain-based therapy methods that actually work.

11/02/2025

Every session is an opportunity to rewire the brain. 🧠✨

When you understand neuroplasticity — the brain’s ability to create new neural pathways — you stop trying to fix clients and start helping them transform.

Because real healing doesn’t happen in a single “aha” moment.
It happens through repetition, safety, and connection — the three pillars of lasting change.

💭 Each new thought, feeling, or behavior your client practices strengthens a new neural pathway.
🌿 Each moment of safety tells the brain, “It’s okay to do this differently.”
🔁 Each repetition teaches, “I can change.”

That’s the beauty of brain-based therapy — it’s not just talking about change, it’s building it in real time.

As a therapist, your role isn’t to rewrite your client’s story for them.
It’s to help their brain feel safe enough to practice a new ending.

Ready to integrate the science of neuroplasticity into your sessions?

💬 Comment “GROWTH” below to learn how to become a neuroscience-informed practitioner and help your clients rewire from the inside out.

10/30/2025

Sometimes the most profound healing doesn’t come from eliminating a thought — but from witnessing it fully.

When a client brings a rigid belief into conscious awareness (“I can’t make mistakes,” “I have to keep everyone happy,” “I must stay in control”), we’re not rushing to correct it.

We’re inviting the brain to reconsider what it once assumed was necessary for safety.

Because behind every cognitive distortion is often a deeply intelligent survival strategy — one the brain adopted early, then reinforced over time.

In Brain-Based Therapy, the work isn’t about assigning blame to the past.
It’s about honoring how the past shaped the present — and giving the nervous system a new option.

✨ “This isn’t who I am — it’s what my brain learned to do.”

When we create space through affective attunement, curiosity, and reprocessing tools like imagery and metaphor, the brain starts to update itself.

Not through force — but through felt safety.

Healing doesn’t mean having no thoughts.
It means having more freedom in how we relate to them.

I’m curious…
What’s your experience helping clients reframe or reprocess deep-rooted beliefs?
What have you found most effective in bringing these “loops” into the light?

Let’s share what’s working.👇

10/28/2025

🧠 “A fuller way of working with clients & providers.” 🧠

That’s how Jamie Armstrong, LMHC, RP, described her experience with with our brain-based trainings.

By learning a brain-based approach to hypnosis, Jamie filled the gaps in her knowledge and gained:
🔹 A stronger, neuroscience-informed framework
🔹 Tools to work more effectively with clients
🔹 Knowledge to share with doctors & referral partners
🔹 Greater credibility and confidence in her community

✨ This isn’t just training — it’s transformation for you, your practice, and the people you serve. ✨

💬 Ready to elevate your expertise and expand your impact? Comment “BRAIN-BASED” below or DM us to join the next MindWorks training.

10/27/2025

When clients are stuck in repetitive thoughts — overthinking, intrusive loops, “what ifs” — the goal isn’t to fight the mind. It’s to befriend it. 🧠💭

Through Brain-Based Therapy, we teach clients that thoughts aren’t enemies to eliminate or evidence to argue with — they’re simply neural patterns the brain keeps replaying because it once thought they kept us safe.

When we bring humor, metaphor, and play into that process, something powerful happens: the brain experiences a new emotional association. Instead of fear or self-criticism, it learns calm, curiosity, and flexibility.

This is psychological flexibility in action — the ability to be with what’s happening without being consumed by it.

Because real change doesn’t happen by forcing new thoughts.
It happens when the brain feels safe enough to create new meaning.

💬 Comment “FLEXIBILITY” below if you’re ready to go beyond mindset and help your clients experience true, lasting brain change.

10/26/2025

You’ve heard it before — “Just change your mindset.”
But if it were that easy, wouldn’t everyone be healed by now? 💭

The truth is, mindset work only scratches the surface.
You can repeat affirmations and journal all you want, but if your brain and nervous system still think you’re unsafe… no amount of positive thinking will make lasting change.

That’s where Brain-Based Healing comes in. 🧠✨
Instead of forcing new thoughts, it helps you rewire old survival patterns — the ones buried deep in the subconscious that drive your reactions, emotions, and beliefs.

When you regulate the nervous system and reprogram the brain, transformation becomes natural — not forced. Confidence, peace, and alignment stop being things you chase and start being who you are.

This is the difference between “thinking better” and becoming rewired for safety and success.

🌿 Learn to go beyond mindset and into true transformation.

📩 Comment “BRAIN” below to learn more about the Brain-Based Psychotherapy Academy and start healing from the root.

10/23/2025

The most powerful healing doesn’t come from a script, a label, or a diagnosis — it comes from connection. 🧠💫

As therapists, we aren’t just talking to the brain; we’re talking with it.
Real transformation happens when the conversation itself becomes brain-changing — when it reaches beyond insight and into the deeper neural patterns that store memory, emotion, and protection.

Because healing isn’t about “fixing what’s wrong.”
It’s about helping the brain feel safe enough to change.

When empathy, dual awareness, and neuroscience meet, something extraordinary happens.
We build a bridge between connection and reprocessing — between understanding the wound and actually transforming it.

The research continues to confirm what many of us have sensed all along:
💡 The relationship creates the results.
🧠 The technique amplifies them.
Together, they make change not just possible — but predictable.

Have you started integrating any brain-based approaches into your own practice?
I’d love to hear what your experience has been.

10/21/2025

🧠 “This transformational healers retreat enables therapists & helpers to heal deep emotional wounds.”
— Dr. Guy Earle, LMFT | Founder of Transformational Schema Therapy, Dallas, TX

Here’s the truth — as therapists, coaches, and helpers, we’re trained to hold space for everyone else.

But very few spaces are designed to help us process what we carry.

That’s why so many healers who come into proximity with brain-based methods describe it as life-changing — not just for their clients, but for themselves.

Whether it’s through a retreat, a live training, or one of our brain-based certification programs…

Something shifts when you experience firsthand how the brain and nervous system truly heal.
✨ You stop feeling responsible for “fixing” clients and start facilitating rapid, safe transformation.
✨ You begin regulating your own nervous system as you work, rather than absorbing the energy around you.
✨ You remember why you started this work — and feel reignited by it.

The next Transformational Healers Retreat will be happening in March 2026 (and I’m taking a wait list now)… but you don’t have to wait to start learning these tools.

📩 Let’s have a conversation tto explore how you can begin integrating brain-based methods into your practice now — and experience the same healing, clarity, and confidence our community is built on.

10/20/2025

Most therapists and coaches talk about change.
But brain-based practitioners? They help clients experience it. 🧠✨

When you go beyond mindset work and start working with the whole brain — both conscious and subconscious — transformation happens faster, deeper, and lasts longer.

That’s why students of the Brain-Based Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy Academy are seeing such powerful results in their unique fields:

🌿 Christina built a program for stressed parents to manage moods and reactivity — not just cope, but actually rewire the brain patterns driving the overwhelm.
💪 Ashton helps clients finally achieve lasting weight release — because 80% of weight change is mental, not physical.

By learning to reprocess stored memories and subconscious responses, they’re helping clients:
✅ Feel calmer, lighter, and more regulated
✅ Break free from emotional eating or reactive patterns
✅ Heal emotionally and physically

This isn’t just therapy — it’s neuroscience in action.
Your brain learns through experience, not explanation — and that’s exactly what we teach.

✨ Healing is good for business.

📩 Comment “BRAIN CHANGE” to learn how to integrate brain-based methods into your practice and book a free Level-Up Call — where you’ll discover how these tools can expand your impact, results, and income.

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816 Pinedale Road
Fort Walton Beach, FL
32547

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Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm

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+18508623141

Website

https://www.drelizabethmichas.com/

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