Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center now offers

CHICAGO, Aug. 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center, a nationally recognized behavioral health facility serving women and adolescent girls, recently added sound therapy to its repertoire of expression therapies that the center uses to heal used by patients suffering from substance use disorders, trauma and other mental illnesses.

It affects 40.3 million Americans ages 12 and older, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) 2020 US Survey on Drug Use and Health Struggling with substance use disorders, while 52.9 million adults aged 18 and over suffer from mental illness. As America’s need for behavioral therapy treatment continues to grow, it’s more important than ever to have additional approaches like sound therapy.

Timberline Knolls is leading the behavioral health industry by offering sound therapy as another way to support its clients. The facility’s experts use crystal singing bowls in their sound healing practice, which involves encircling the outer rim of the singing bowls with mallets to create sound vibrations that produce singing tones.

The singing bowls generate frequencies and a vibration is created. Imagine waves of the ocean as the tide comes in and flows through – it washes up on a shore and then recedes. It repeats as the water keeps moving back and forth. Sound healing is like this concept; As the vibrations of the sounds emanate from the bowls as they create the frequencies, they connect to the mind and body. The vibrations of the sounds target areas of the body, and since the body is approximately 70% water, these sounds connect with the body and cells like a pebble thrown into water, creating a calming effect.

“Sound healing has been very well received by our residents,” said Elisabeth Nuesser, E-RYT, TIY, RCYT, Trauma-Informed Yoga Facilitator at Timberline Knolls. “Provide a multidisciplinary approach that…