About the author
Brent M. Baum, STB, SSL, CADC, LISAC, CCH is an interdisciplinary specialist in spirituality, trauma, and addictions. He has served as a Catholic priest, an archaeologist in the Near East, a professor at Notre Dame Seminary, and as Clinical Director of Cottonwood Treatment Centers in New Mexico and Arizona. Brent completed his post-graduate training in theology at the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy and the Pontifical Biblical Institutes in Rome and Jerusalem. His sub-specialization in archaeology led to his active involvement in excavation in Southern Israel from 1979-1992.
Brent’s pastoral counseling training evolved into strategies for relapse prevention, focusing on the treatment of addictions. His development of “Holographic Memory Resolution®” drew the attention of leading addictionologists and relapse prevention specialists and led to further involvement in the field of addictions treatment. His innovative approach was developed initially as an effort to address his clients’ abuse of and excessive dependency upon medications, particularly those that are routinely used to treat memory-based pain and anxiety. His techniques led to his involvement with the rescue personnel and survivors of the Oklahoma City Bombing and September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He was asked to present his work to the Human Resources department of TWA upon the crash of Flight 800 in New York and has trained therapists involved with many of the traumatic events of the last two decades.
Brent is a Licensed Substance Abuse Counselor and a Clinical Hypnotherapist. He is the author of: “The Healing Dimensions: Resolving Trauma in Body, Mind and Spirit,” “Living as Light: The Awakening of Mystical Consciousness,” and “Surviving Trauma School Earth: A Practical Guide to Emotional Survival on the Earth Plane” (2013). Brent is also the developer of Holographic Memory Resolution®, an “emotional reframing” technique that helps to resolve the emotional and physical pain states attached to stress, trauma, and any form of memory or event-based pathology. He has worked with over twenty thousand trauma survivors and, due to his innovations in the treatment of trauma, was offered the position as clinical director of Cottonwood Treatment Center in Los Lunas, New Mexico in 1993. Upon merging with the Tucson facility in 1994 he became co-clinical director and coordinator of the trauma program and remained there until he was invited to bring his work to “Miraval” in Northwest Tucson in 2000. While at Cottonwood, his work led to affiliation with the Integrative Medicine Program of Dr. Andrew Weil at the University of Arizona, which continued with Dr. Weil’s Integrative Wellness Program at Miraval.
HMR is a gentle, emotional reframing process that combines Somatic, Energy, and Color psychologies. This gentle non-abreactive (not re-living the event) approach empowers individuals to establish “proof of safety” in the bodymind at the point where the psyche stored pain and tension at the moment(s) of overwhelm. The pain which creates such “state-dependent” memory can be physical or emotional in origin, but can often be diminished or resolved by addressing the imprinting in both the cells and meridians of the bodymind. His discovery of a memory-access point at Cervical Vertebra-7 (C-7) and use of the primary language of color enable the complex mapping and address of many forms of memory-based pathology. Much that we label “migraine” or “chronic pain” finds its origin in memory and can be addressed by speaking effectively to the ninety-five percent subconscious mind which holds the memory intact. Psychologists, social workers, nurse practitioners, physicians, psychiatrists, neurologists, addictions counselors, chiropractors and acupuncturists, professional counselors, marriage and family therapist and educators have integrated HMR into their practices. The hallmark of HMR is the empowerment of the client’s own “Healer Within.”