BalanSense-Therapy, LLC

12/26/2025

We did a second drawing for Christmas and the winner of all is Kristina Sheaffer! CONGRATLUTIONS!

12/25/2025

🎄🫶🎁🎄 York, PA: www.balansense-therapy.com

12/24/2025

Mold Exposure & the Nervous System
Understanding the Experience and Pathways to Regulation.

Mold exposure can affect the body far beyond the lungs or sinuses. For many individuals, it creates a chronic stress response that impacts the nervous system, sensory processing, emotions, and daily functioning.

People may experience:
1. Ongoing fatigue, brain fog, or difficulty concentrating
2. Heightened anxiety, irritability, or mood changes
3. Feeling constantly on edge, unsafe, or overwhelmed
4. Sensory sensitivities to sound, light, smells, touch, or movement
5. Headaches, dizziness, nausea, or unexplained body pain
6. Sleep disruption or non-restorative sleep
7. Difficulty tolerating busy environments or social situations
8. A sense that their body “can’t settle” even after leaving the mold environment

Over time, the nervous system may remain stuck in a survival state, reacting as if danger is still present — even when the person is now in a safer space.

How Polyvagal Theory & the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) can Help.

💡Polyvagal Theory: Restoring Safety in the Nervous System

Polyvagal Theory helps us understand how the nervous system responds to threat, safety, and connection. Mold exposure is experienced by the body as a prolonged threat, often activating:
- Sympathetic responses (fight/flight): anxiety, hypervigilance, panic, restlessness
- Dorsal vagal responses (shutdown): fatigue, numbness, withdrawal, low motivation

Polyvagal-informed care focuses on:
* Gradually restoring a sense of safety in the body
* Supporting the vagus nerve, which regulates heart rate, digestion, breathing, emotional regulation, and social engagement
* Helping the nervous system move out of survival states and back into regulated, connected functioning

This approach is especially important for individuals whose systems have been overwhelmed by chronic environmental stressors like mold.

12/23/2025

Nervous System dysregulation and Trauma:
🎥How does our System work? A Polyvagal perspective.

This video was developed as a basic introduction to a Polyvagal view of how trauma and chronic stress affect our nervous system. If you would like to watch ...

12/23/2025

Win!🎄🎁 You may win a Gift Certificate for our services starting January 1st 2026. We are offering children and adult services.
https://balansense-therapy.com/ssp-and-focus-ils

How to enter: 1. Like our Facebook Site, 2. Share one post of our Advent #1 through #22 posts on your profile.😍 Best wishes! 2 Winners will be announced on Christmas Day.

12/22/2025

💡Winter is ~90 days long each year. Who has not felt the Winter Blues?!

❄️ Winter Blues Are Common ❄️

During winter, many people notice changes in mood, energy, focus, and regulation. Shorter days and less sunlight can affect the nervous system—for both kids and adults.

You might notice:
• Low energy or motivation
• Irritability or emotional sensitivity
• Brain fog or difficulty focusing
• Increased meltdowns or shutdowns in children
• Feeling “off” or not quite yourself

These are not personal failures—they’re signals that the nervous system may need more support, rhythm, movement, and connection.

❄️ Winter can feel heavy on our mood and energy. Using polyvagal strategies and SSP listening exercises, we can help your nervous system feel safe, connected, and energized again.

At BalanSense Therapy, we support children and adults by:
1. Reducing meltdowns, irritability, or low motivation
2. Improving focus, attention, and emotional regulation
3. Using gentle movement, sound, play, and social engagement
4. You don’t have to wait for spring to feel better—support is available now.

At BalanSense Therapy, we support seasonal regulation using a whole-body, nervous-system approach 💙
You don’t need to be in crisis to get help.

📩 Message us to learn more.

12/21/2025

🎥What does Occupational Therapy looks like with us: https://balansense-therapy.com/therapy-pictures

We are specializing in auditory and sensory processing through the lens of the Polyvagal Theory (a bottom up approach) and basing all our therapy plans on nervous system regulation. We are the first business in York, PA that uses the Safe and Sound Protocol and the Focus iLS system in York and surrounding areas. Benefits: more efficient, effective and lasting outcomes

☎️Contact us for a free consultation: https://balansense-therapy.com/contact

12/21/2025

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12/19/2025

Anxiety or Panic Attacks? There is a quick solution to that!

12/19/2025

Whether you experiencing sensory challenges like increased sensitivity to light, sounds or vibration, experiencing social anxiety all your life, or since a concussion, surgery, MVA, or other, having difficulty to enter a grocery store or trouble in the classroom that run continues HVACs, or having buzzing and bright lights, we know you are not "crazy", you are feeling and experiencing it all.

You have been judged, and ignored by family, friends and health professionals because you have needs so you can function. You have been living a more or less isolated life as your activity tolerance is limited and not understood. You are not alone! And we, at BalanSense-Therapy, are here to help!

Your sensitivities are real and your nervous system is in dysregulation including your sensory systems. Your nervous system has learned over time, or after a traumatic event, to be on demand and is trying to protect you. Therefore, your sensory systems are in a heightened state.

BalanSense Therapy will listen to you and your experiences, and we will create a customized treatment program to strengthen your nervous system and decrease your over-response of your sensory systems. You will feel more rested, and get more sleep, you will feel less responsive to triggers and will able to increase your social life and activities.

Contact us for a free consultation:
https://balansense-therapy.com/contact
Learn about our SSP-Safe and Sound Protocol and Focus iLs treatment programs here: https://balansense-therapy.com/ssp-and-focus-ils
Get relief now! 🎁

12/19/2025

Hello, my name is Kathrin and I am the owner of BalanSense-Therapy, LLC in York, PA

I was inspired to create a space and service for families that can feel safe, without judgement. Who does not want that?!

My own son was diagnosed with ADHD at age 7. He had demonstrated mild to moderate symptoms and we (parents) were told immediately that he needed medication. Since I was studying Occupational Therapy during that time, I believed, we needed to try alternative treatment first, and addressed sensory challenges. While we went through rough times, including judgment of teachers and friends, our stress level and frustration as parents was out there. Through sensory processing, integration, and self-awareness training, my son learned to use alternative tools and increased his understanding of his needs, and how to use his tools to give him sensory feedback, giving him a good feeling while staying seated in the classroom. By Middle School, he was able to organize his own school work. However, we still needed to be on top of some memory issues to turn in his self-completed assignments on time. Today, he is becoming a Physics teacher. 🫶🥰

So, that was one reason why I felt I needed to create a service that gives parents and children a place where they are understood, and are also able to get the support and treatment that actually addresses difficult challenges for the child and the parents.

While working in various settings for more than a decade as a Occupational Therapy Assistant, I became frustrated with the health system. Currently, we are challenged by insurance companies asking for more money each year, but the return is little for services. Many companies running their services on high traffic to offset costs, and patients experiencing being seen with multiple other patients, at the same time. Because insurance companies dictating treatments, treatment is selective to fit the insurance policies, but don't match the patient's needs. Therefore, the efficiency and effectiveness of optimized treatment is significantly compromised. But BalanSense-Therapy, LLC is giving patients exactly that. Although we are not currently taking insurance at our office to allow for efficient and effective treatment, we offer a superbill so you can still ask for reimbursement. In addition, we offer Payment Plans and Care-Credit, as well as FSA and HSA.

The most important to me is that you and your children getting efficient and effective service to reach developmental mile stones, and other goals that you have set. Because not only our children requiring help, we also offer adults services for various conditions. We provide a safe space and a non-judgmental environment. At BalanSense-Therapy, we love to build a team with you that works and problem solves together from the start to the end of service.

Here you can find out more about our services:
https://balansense-therapy.com/peditrics
https://balansense-therapy.com/adults
Contact us for a free consultation:
https://balansense-therapy.com/contact