E32: Brain Renewal with Dr.Heather Putney: Healing Mental Health Through Neurotherapy

What makes Dr. Heather Putney with Untethered Therapy & Transformative Neurotherapy a good neighbor?  

Could the breakthrough in your mental health journey be closer than you think? Dr. Heather Putney, founder of Untethered Therapy and Transformative Neurotherapy, joins us to reveal how cutting-edge brain-based interventions are revolutionizing healing for everything from trauma and addiction to cognitive optimization.

What begins as a fascinating personal journey—from aspiring veterinarian to psychotherapist—evolves into a conversation about groundbreaking neurotherapy techniques that work nearly twice as fast as conventional methods. Dr. Putney explains how her unique combination of LED light therapy, pulse electromagnetic field therapy, and transcranial stimulation creates personalized treatment plans that address the root neurological imbalances behind many mental health conditions.

We explore how these holistic approaches benefit not only those struggling with PTSD, trauma, and addiction but also executives seeking peak performance and adults concerned about cognitive aging. Dr. Putney shares her client-centered philosophy that balances efficient healing with personalized care, emphasizing that while she prioritizes rapid results, each person's healing journey unfolds at its own necessary pace. For anyone feeling "stuck" despite traditional therapy or seeking alternatives to medication-focused treatments, this conversation opens new possibilities for brain health optimization through science-based, holistic interventions.

Curious about optimizing your brain health naturally? Visit untetheredtherapy.org or transformativeneurotherapy.org to discover how these innovative approaches might transform your mental wellbeing. Follow them on Facebook and Instagram for the latest developments in neurotherapy and mental health.

To learn more about Untethered Therapy & Transformative Neurotherapy go to: 

www.transformativeneurotherapy.org

www.untetheredtherapy.org

Untethered Therapy & Transformative Neurotherapy

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Lila Carter.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast.
Are you in need of a brainboost for your mental health?
One might be closer than youthink.
Today I have the pleasure ofintroducing your good neighbor,
Heather Putney, with UntetheredTherapy and Transformative
Neurotherapy.
Heather, how's it going?
It's going great, Awesome.

(00:34):
We're excited to learn allabout you and your business.
Please tell us about yourcompany.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Great.
Well, I'm the executivedirector and founder of both
Untethered Therapy andTransformative Neurotherapy and
they work together, hand in hand, so I'll be talking about them,
kind of both.
Untethered Therapy started inthe Bellevue area in traumas and
uh addiction, primarily um someprocess addictions, internet,

(01:11):
uh sex and so forth.
We work a lot with um betrayaltrauma as well as PTSD and
trauma, as well as all the wholegamut of mental health issues.
So, um and through that work, I, um I recognize that talk
therapy is super powerful, butbrain based and body based

(01:31):
therapies can also, you know,can help when when talk therapy
falls a little short,integrating more and more
holistic factors into thebusiness to help people heal the
quickest.
And so the transformativeneurotherapy is kind of our most

(01:54):
recent addition to help peopleheal in the most rapid way
possible.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Beautiful Now.
Dr Putney, how did you get intothis business?

Speaker 3 (02:10):
oh, wow, um, it's.
It's kind of crazy.
I started out planning on beinga veterinarian so I had I have
a master's in um undergrad inbiology and a master's in
integrative biology.
Um, but kind of along the way,I have to say, I kind of
received some kind of likespiritual experiences and
inklings and stuff that kind ofredirected my path towards

(02:31):
psychotherapy.
And I was on that path for along time and have been doing
that and got my doctorate incounseling, supervision and
education.
And it's kind of come back fullcircle as, like I said, I
started having these clientsthat they were doing excellent
talk therapy and they were doingEMDR and other things, and yet
they still felt like they werestuck and so I was looking for

(02:51):
other solutions and so I did alot of research trying to figure
out how to get them kind ofunstuck.
And that's what led me intoadding neurotherapy, which is,
you know, a lot of neuroscienceand biology, and for me, since I
kind of had that circuitousroute to this, it's kind of such
a great fit and just get reallynerdy about it and it's really
exciting.
But that's kind of how I gothere.
It's been a journey.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
What are some myths or misconceptions in the
neurotherapy industry?

Speaker 3 (03:21):
I think at this point it's so new and so innovative A
lot of people just don't evenknow what it is.
Enough to even have a lot ofmisconceptions.
So I think it's just a basiclack of knowledge.
A lot of people know aboutneurofeedback you hear a lot of
great buzz about neurofeedbackand neurofeedback is effective
and is helpful to help balancethe brain, but it's just a lot

(03:44):
slower and I'm not a verypatient person, and so when I
was, you know, researching thedifferent modalities to try to
help people heal the quickest,you know also looking at
evidence-based options, I wasdrawn more towards
neuromodulation and neurotherapy, which just moves the needle
almost about twice as fast asneurotherapy, and I mean as as

(04:08):
neurofeedback.
And so, just thinking aboutmyself, if I'm struggling and I
have to pay for a certain numberof sessions, I'd like to pay
for a lot less sessions and feela lot better faster.
And so that's kind of how I gotto neurotherapy,
neuromodulation and some of thethings people have heard about
with that, like red lighttherapy.
That is part of what we do withneurotherapy.

(04:29):
So it's LED light, red lighttherapy, which we add to the
brain, which can stimulate andbalance the brain, increase
blood flow reduce inflammation.
We do pulse electromagneticfield, which is another form of
stimulation, increases bloodflow, which improves
neurogenesis and differentthings like that.
And we also incorporate TACS,tdcs, which is low current

(04:53):
stimulation in the brain, whichwe can specifically target
imbalances that we see throughthe EEGs that we collect.
And so we do a lot ofpsychological measures and
interviews and we get an EEG andthat kind of helps determine
the.
You know we also detect thesymptoms and helps us determine

(05:15):
what each client needs, veryclient specific.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
So do all of those interventions live under the
umbrella of neuromodulation, oris that something different
entirely?

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Nope, they are all that's.
Those are examples ofneuromodulation and we
incorporate all of the above um,as I said, to help people heal,
to heal the fastest.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Very good, and as we know that marketing is the heart
of every business, who are yourtarget customers and how are
you attracting them to thepractice?

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, our target, our target customers are people who
are holistically minded.
You know, maybe they have gonedown the medication route and it
hasn't worked for them, or theyare on a lot of medications but
they would really like to be,they would like to have a more
holistic approach or reduce theamount of medicines that they

(06:06):
are on.
And neuromodulation,neurotherapy, can you know, help
the, you know, help teach thebrain, help rebalance the brain,
and then once the brain kind ofgets it, it can, it can hold it
itself, it can do it on its own, you know so.
So we we really kind of drawingclients that are looking for
naturalistic, holistic ways tokind of get unstuck.

(06:29):
Or sometimes we also attractpeak performers, executives or
people that are, you know, justtrying to, you know, you know,
prevent cognitive decline, youknow, kind of have a healthier
brain longer.
As you know, healthy aging isthe word I was looking for, so
it can be used for, you know,addictions and trauma, ADHD.

(06:53):
We do a lot of work with that.
But it's also a very usefultool, Like I said, for many
populations looking to be attheir maximal health and
production.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
There are so many people looking to optimize their
mental health in the ways thatyou offer and that you know so
much about.
Have you ever thought aboutdoing your own podcast to share
what you know?

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Um, I haven't yet.
Um, we've.
I've been in the uh, I've beenin the program building stage
more than anything in the last,the last couple of years with
this, and we literally justlaunched our website for the
neurotherapy program.
We've been doing the programfor a while but, um, as part of
uh, under the therapy, but, um,we've been, you know, kind of

(07:39):
working on getting it out there.
Really, it's kind of themarketing piece, you know,
because it is, it can be aslightly different customer than
you know.
The clients that come in withyou know the mental health
practice, so sometimes it's theperfect fit for those clients,
but sometimes it's, you know,like I said, someone that's
looking more for peakperformance and aren't coming in
strictly for mental health, butthey're really interested in
maximizing their brain healthand their functionality.

(08:02):
So, um, yeah, so I haven'tgotten to the part of thinking
about doing my own podcast, butwe're kind of right on the verge
, as we just, like I said, wejust finished the website and
we're looking into all the waysto market um, which I'll say
that's that's been a challengefor me with the, with the mental
health agency, through word,you know, through word of mouth
and whatnot.
We haven't really had to marketand we um, we've just done

(08:25):
extremely well and we're, we're,you know, um have a very
healthy referral supply, so itjust was so easy on that side.
But this is just something sonovel and different, so getting
it out there is a slightlydifferent track, and so we're,
we're trying to figure thatpiece out as we go and, like I
said, that's kind of brand new.
So it's great ideas and I meanwe're helping that arena, that's
for sure.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
It's kind of thrilling, though, to have
something like that launchonline too, though you've been
doing it for a while, you know,so it's full steam ahead here.
But outside of work, what doyou do for fun?

Speaker 3 (09:01):
outside of work.
What do you do for fun?
Uh, I've got three kids and twodogs and they keep me very busy
, um, but I also like biking andgardening, so I like being
outdoors when I can, oh verynice.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
So um heather, please tell our listeners one thing
that they should remember aboutuntethered therapy about
untethered therapy.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Well, untethered therapy and transformative
neurotherapy really areperson-centered.
We care about your individualexperiences and needs and we
work very hard to find what youneed to heal as fast as possible
for you and as long as it takesfor you.

(09:43):
There's no rush as well, so wejust really try to treat
everybody as an individual.
There's no, there's no specifictreatment that it looks like
this for everybody.
It's very personalized.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Right, you said that you prioritize the time aspect
within your practice, butthere's no rush to actually get
there, it's just you'reprioritizing that.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, I appreciate efficiency and healing and we
want to use the modalities thatget the best and fastest results
.
But also some things,especially when working with
trauma or addictions.
Some of those things just takesome time to heal, heal or
there's just a lot there tounpack and so everybody goes at
the pace that they are able togo or willing to go.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, I love that level of understanding where
your clients are at and kind ofmeeting them there too.
So how can our listeners learnmore about transformative
neurotherapy and untetheredtherapy?

Speaker 3 (10:43):
You can find us on our mutual websites
untetheredtherapyorg ortransformativeneurotherapyorg.
We are on Facebook or onInstagram or, if you're in the
Bellevue area near LincolnAvenue, you can just pop your
head in and you know.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
We've got some flyers out there and can ask some
questions if you're in the areaVery good Well, Heather, I
really appreciate your timetoday and having you as a guest
on the show.
We wish you and your businessesthe best moving forward.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Thank you so much.
We appreciate the chance tokind of explain a little bit
what we do, because it's alittle different.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, certainly, but it's great.
Thank you for all the work thatyou're doing in the community.
Thank you.

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