MindWorks Psychology

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.

I love the Brain-based Accelerated Psychotherapies as they are reducing the number of sessions. Making reprocessing less...
12/02/2025

I love the Brain-based Accelerated Psychotherapies as they are reducing the number of sessions. Making reprocessing less emotionally painful and more complete.

🧠 Brain-based work doesn’t have to be complicated.In fact, when taught clearly and practiced intentionally, it becomes o...
12/02/2025

🧠 Brain-based work doesn’t have to be complicated.

In fact, when taught clearly and practiced intentionally, it becomes one of the most accessible and effective tools you can bring into your sessions.

“The course was well organized, easy to understand, and provided well-integrated experiences in hypnosis… Dr. Michas is engaging and provides information in an easy-to-understand format. I would highly recommend this training.”
– Kelly Minor, LCSW

Whether you're new to hypnotherapy or looking to deepen your results, the right training makes all the difference.

📅 Join us live for the upcoming free CE masterclass for Psychotherapists:
Regulate to Rewire: Advancing Emotional Resilience Through Brain-Based Therapy

🔗 Save your seat now - drop me a note and I’ll send you the link.

12/01/2025

Not all thoughts are created equal — and not all thoughts are conscious.

Much of what drives emotional reactivity and belief-based resistance lives below awareness — in the implicit systems of the brain that shape perception, emotion, and behavior long before a client can “think it through.”

In a brain-based orientation, we’re not just challenging beliefs or reframing stories.
We’re identifying the nonconscious patterns that confuse, limit, or activate emotional systems — and guiding the brain to experience them differently.

You could look at the evolution of talk therapy in four waves:
1️⃣ Think positive — replace negative thoughts with affirmations
2️⃣ Think rationally — challenge distortions using logic and evidence
3️⃣ Be with it — observe thoughts mindfully, without judgment
4️⃣ Be transformational — engage the brain directly to rewire automatic responses

Each wave added value. But in the fourth wave, we go deeper — leveraging techniques like cognitive diffusion, metaphor, and brain-based interventions to help clients shift at the source.

Because insight alone doesn’t create change.
The brain has to experience something new to believe it’s possible.

📅 I’ll be breaking this down further in my upcoming free CE masterclass for Psychotherapists:
Regulate to Rewire: Advancing Emotional Resilience Through Brain-Based Therapy

Drop ‘REWIRE’ below and I’ll send you the link to save your spot.

🚫 Over-coaching.🚫 Ignoring the body.🚫 Skipping subconscious work.These are the three most common mistakes even experienc...
11/30/2025

🚫 Over-coaching.
🚫 Ignoring the body.
🚫 Skipping subconscious work.

These are the three most common mistakes even experienced coaches make when trying to create deep transformation.

If you’re giving clients tools, insights, and strategies — but still seeing them loop back into the same patterns — the problem isn’t effort… it’s wiring.

🧠 The truth?
Transformation doesn’t stick without nervous system regulation and subconscious re-patterning.

When you work with the brain and body together, clients shift faster, go deeper, and stay in the change longer.

That’s what brain-based coaching unlocks.

✨ Want to coach at a higher level?

Comment “UPLEVEL” to schedule a complimentary call and explore how to bring these methods into your business.

11/28/2025

Mindfulness changed the game by helping clients observe their thoughts without judgment — no reframing, no resistance, no forced positivity.
Just presence. And that alone can create structural change in the brain.

But we’re not stopping there.

In the fourth wave, we build on those foundations with transformational tools like cognitive diffusion — a brain-based strategy that helps clients detach from the thought entirely.

Not by replacing it.
Not by challenging it.
But by seeing it for what it really is:
A pattern.
A process.
A firing in the brain — not an identity.

That’s the shift.
From “I am my thoughts” to “I’m having a thought — and I get to choose what to do with it.”

When clients can do that, the nervous system relaxes… and healing begins.

Want to learn how to use this inside your sessions?

🧠 Join me live for the upcoming free CE masterclass for Psychotherapists:
Regulate to Rewire: Advancing Emotional Resilience Through Brain-Based Therapy

🍁 Happy Thanksgiving from our team to yours!Today, we’re especially grateful for the work we get to do alongside such th...
11/27/2025

🍁 Happy Thanksgiving from our team to yours!

Today, we’re especially grateful for the work we get to do alongside such thoughtful, committed, and heart-centered therapists, coaches, and healers.

Your presence in the lives of your clients creates real, lasting ripple effects — and it’s a privilege to support the people who support so many others.

Whether today brings rest, reflection, or just a good slice of pie… we hope you feel the gratitude being sent your way. 💛

Here’s to slowing down, savoring the moment, and returning to what matters most.

— With appreciation,
Dr. Elizabeth Michas + Team

Therapy doesn’t have to feel clinical, cold, or overly complex. In fact — when ease, compassion, and a little humor are ...
11/25/2025

Therapy doesn’t have to feel clinical, cold, or overly complex.
In fact — when ease, compassion, and a little humor are part of the intervention?
Clients shift faster.
Clinicians feel more grounded.
And the work becomes transformational — not just technical.

This is the heart of brain-based therapy:
Teaching evidence-backed methods that feel just as human as they are effective.

“Dr. Michas put a sense of ease, compassion and humor into an effective intervention model. Her training is unique and exciting to implement.”
– Tuesdai Brown, PA, NCC

If you’re ready to learn how to help clients rewire stuck patterns without burnout or guesswork — you’ll want to be at the next masterclass for a free CE hour for Psychotherapists.

📅 Regulate to Rewire: Advancing Emotional Resilience Through Brain-Based Therapy

Let me know if you want a seat?

11/24/2025

When a client shares a thought like “This is the end of the world,” how you respond either reinforces fear
— or opens the door to rewiring.

This is where great clinicians stand apart.
It’s not just about listening.
It’s about modeling calm, grounded presence and teaching the brain:
“This thought isn’t dangerous. It’s just a pattern.”

Clients don’t need more insight.
They need to experience their thoughts differently — to trace them back to where the brain learned them,
understand why they stuck, and create the safety required to release them.

Fast results don’t come from surface reframes.
They come from knowing how to help clients access the root belief and shift it at the subconscious level.

That’s what creates emotional relief in-session — and the kind of outcomes that clients will gladly pay
more for.

🧠 I’ll be teaching how to do exactly that in my upcoming free CE masterclass for Psychotherapists:
Regulate to Rewire: Advancing Emotional Resilience Through Brain-Based Therapy

📅 Join me live to explore how to bring this into your sessions and help clients transform faster — without
relying on just talk.
🔗Drop ‘REGULATE’ for the link to register.

If your clients keep cycling through the same symptoms, it’s not because they’re resistant…It’s because traditional tool...
11/23/2025

If your clients keep cycling through the same symptoms, it’s not because they’re resistant…
It’s because traditional tools are managing the surface, not the system.

Affirmations, journaling, coping skills, they help in the moment, but the same patterns return the minute a trigger reactivates the old wiring.

💡 The root cause? It lives in the brain and nervous system, not just in mindset.

That’s why inside a brain-based approach, we don’t just aim to soothe symptoms, we rewire the pattern itself:
✨ Regulate before reframing
✨ Work with the subconscious, not just the story
✨ Create new safety-based neural pathways through repetition

This is what real, lasting healing looks like.
And it’s what I help practitioners learn to bring into their work.

💬 Comment REWIRE to schedule a free Practice Up-Level Call and explore how to start integrating these strategies into your sessions.

11/21/2025

Positive thinking and cognitive restructuring have helped many clients reframe negative self-talk and challenge distorted thinking.

But let’s be clear:
They’re surface-level interventions in the broader context of how the brain processes belief.

Encouraging clients to “just reframe it” or practice gratitude may create temporary relief but unless the underlying neural pathways tied to threat, emotion, and self-concept are addressed, the original belief pattern often returns under stress.

Second-wave cognitive therapies taught us how to identify distortions:
— All-or-nothing thinking
— Catastrophizing
— Jumping to conclusions

The client learns to challenge them…
But what if they could actually repattern them?

In a brain-based orientation, we move beyond managing the thought and instead, work with the system that keeps generating it.

That’s the shift.
And that’s where long-term transformation begins.
If you want to learn how to guide clients through this kind of emotional regulation and resilience work, I’d love to invite you to my free CE masterclass:

Regulate to Rewire: Advancing Emotional Resilience Through Brain-Based Therapy
💫 Drop ‘MASTERCLASS’ below and I’ll send you the link to register is in the comments — join me.

11/20/2025

There’s a difference between having a thought… and a thought having you.

That’s where real transformation begins, helping clients recognize that their thoughts aren’t facts, and they don’t always require action.

In brain-based therapy, we use techniques rooted in ACT, hypnotherapy, and metaphor to help clients detach from rigid beliefs and cultivate what’s known as psychological flexibility — the ability to observe thoughts without being ruled by them.

Because the brain is wired with negativity bias. It loves creating meaning, mental models, and social stories.

But when we teach clients how to relate differently to those patterns — without needing them to be “positive” or “go away” — we give them access to a new kind of freedom.

This isn’t just mindfulness.
It’s movement.
It’s humor.
It’s metaphor.
It’s giving the brain a new way to process reality.

💡 What if your clients saw thoughts as passing mental events instead of absolute truth?

When the nervous system is dysregulated, even basic decisions can feel impossible.Beverly arrived at one of my trainings...
11/19/2025

When the nervous system is dysregulated, even basic decisions can feel impossible.

Beverly arrived at one of my trainings months after surviving Hurricane Michael still holding anxiety, fear, and the emotional weight of losing both her home and business.

And like so many therapists and helpers, she was still showing up for others… but hadn’t had the space to reconnect with herself.

What shifted everything?
A moment of safety.
A brain-based demo.
An experience that allowed her to reconnect to her body, her emotions, and her inner clarity.

“I left feeling calm and connected to my emotions with the capacity to make a decision about what my next step is.”

This is what happens when we stop treating symptoms in isolation…
And start working with the nervous system to create true regulation and safety.

That’s what brain-based therapy is about.
And it’s why I continue to teach these methods because therapists deserve to experience this healing just as much as they offer it.

Have you ever had a moment like that in your own journey, where regulation returned your sense of clarity?
I’d love to hear what helped you reconnect.

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