Tiffany Borghi is a master’s level therapist with extensive experience in trauma and mind body practices. She has created a specialized brain and nervous system coaching program to help clients manage their systems better which she combines with a customized approach that draws from leading mental health approaches best suited to each individual’s situation. She has worked with hundreds of clients, across various backgrounds and ages.
Tiffany is passionate about studying the brain and the latest in neuroscience. She believes that knowledge should be understandable, practical and memorable. She considers herself a lifelong student and loves diving into research.
She started her educational journey with a degree in criminology and psychology, thinking she would become a lawyer but then changed directions and did a masters in mental health counselling. She has done numerous post graduate courses including:
Mind Body Medicine, Harvard Medical School: Herbert Benson- topics included depression, anxiety, trauma, the stress response vs the relaxation response, the gut brain axis, cannabis, psychedelics, sleep, epigenetics, burnout vs resiliency+ 2020-24
First Responder Health Occupational Awareness Training Program: 2023
First Responder Health Understanding
Firefighter Culture and Trauma 2021
First Responder Health Understanding Emergency Worker Trauma 2021
The Neurobiology and Scope of PTSD, Harvard Medical School: topics included treatment approaches, Psychopharmacologic & neurotherapeutic, Sexual assault & PTSD, CBT, Exposure Therapy/VR, PTSD, DID & the Brain, Trauma related health disparities in African Americans, Borderline Personality Disorder vs Complex PTSD, Relationships after trauma, Treatment and biology of PTSD in Children& Adolescence) 2020
Neuropsychiatry, Harvard Medical School: A comprehensive update 2020
NICABM (National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine): How to Work with the Traumatized Brain, Bessel Van der Kolk, MD, Ruth Buczynski, PhD 2020
NICABM: Treating Trauma Master Series (Neurobiology of Trauma, What’s happening in the brain, The Neurobiology of attachment, How to work with traumatic memory + other topics) 2019
NICABM: How to work with Shame (Neurobiology of shame, Rewiring the body’s reaction to shame and trauma, How to work with sexual shame, Unravelling shame in relationships + other topics) 2019
As well she has done training in CBT, DBT, Mindfulness, Expressive Play Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Just Family Therapy
Tiffany hopes that she can assist clients to get to a better place, understand themselves more, have less time spent inside of stress and struggling and more time in higher level living.