Thaw the Iceberg Online at Serenity Cafe Academy
Discover Your True Self as You Initiate Healing for Any of These: Abandonment Issues, Toxic Shame, Adult-Child Syndrome, Addictions, Codependency, Trauma (Emotional, Physical, or Sexual), Attachment Issues, "I'm Not Enough" (False Self), and Imposter Syndrome (Invented Self)
How Do You Eat An Elephant? That's Right, One Bite At A Time! But Where Do You Start?...
We all know healing is a marathon, not a sprint. We start when we take the FIRST step. Good news... Since you are still reading, you have taken the first step! My name is Don Carter. I am an Integrative psychotherapist in long-term personal recovery from addiction and depression. I am also the author of the bestselling Thawing the Iceberg Series. I wrote the six-book series to pay forward the personal, professional, academic, and spiritual blessings I have been given on this recovery journey.
My mission is to help you stop the Inter-generational transfer of abandonment, shame, and contempt. How? I'm glad you asked... That is what my Thawing the Iceberg Series is all about. We can change our faulty mental filters, heal our emotional wounds, and become who we were intended to be - our True Self with purpose, meaning, and fulfillment in our lives. I know this to be true because I have been there and done that myself.
If you can relate to the video at the top of this page, these programs will help. It may seem huge to some of you, so big you don't even know where to start. Don't worry because you will not be alone. I will be there to guide you along the way.
STOP putting this off, START giving yourself the gift of recovery! Below are more reasons and benefits to start NOW!
Benefits: Here is one of the most frequently asked questions in counseling offices everywhere: "But why dig all that up again?" Answer? "Because it keeps getting triggered! That's why you came here in the first place." Below are more good reasons to do this for yourself. So you can...
STOP Letting Your Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors Take Charge of You. START Taking Charge of Your Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors.
STOP Re-Experiencing Painful Emotional Themes and Dysfunctional Relationship Patterns. START Identifying and Healing Your Emotional Triggers.
STOP Doing Your Pain in Advance. (9 times out of 10 it's Unnecessary Pain) START Letting Go of Worries, Anxieties, and Fears (WAFs).
STOP Sabotaging Yourself with Short-Term Fixes, such as False Refuges like Alcohol, Drugs, Chocolate Cake, etc. START Achieving Your Goals and Dreams.
STOP Feeling like an Imposter. Take Off the Mask of an Invented Self. START being Authentic and Share Who You REALLY are with Others ~ Your True Self.
STOP the Cycles of Depression, Anxiety, Addiction, and Compulsion. START Healing the Emotional Wounds of Abandonment and Generating Cycles of Success!
STOP the Inner Criticism and Infection of Shame. START Practicing Self-Compassion and Self-Leadership.
STOP Protecting Yourself with a Scab of Contempt for Self and/or Others. START Practicing Assertiveness and Healthy Boundaries.
STOP People-Pleasing and Approval Seeking. START to Uncover, Discover, Recover, and Share Who You Really Are ~ Your True Self.
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Don Carter MSW, LCSW
Therapist, Author, & Recovery Coach
The middle of seven children, Don grew up on a farm with hard-working parents who had their own issues from childhood. The farm work led to a scholarship to play football at the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1977-79. He followed that with a brief stint with the New Orleans Saints in 1980. That experience was cut short by a developing problem with alcohol and drugs.
A series of childhood tragedies, depression, anxiety, and bouts with addictions led him to an inpatient treatment program in 1986. Don found treatment and recovery such a profoundly gratifying experience that he returned to school, finished two degrees, became a licensed therapist, and for the past 35 years has dedicated himself to helping others find their way out too.
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Thawing the Iceberg Series
Thaw– Freedom from Frozen Feelings, is about the emotional wounds of abandonment, shame, and contempt created by growing up in a less-than-nurturing family.
Thawing Adult-Child Syndrome is designed for those who want to heal Issues such as abandonment, shame, addiction, Complex-PTSD, and codependency. Focus is on the Impact in current Relationships
Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues mimics the developmental processes of childhood by following that same developmental pathway to heal. Here the focus is on healing childhood wounds.
Thawing Toxic Relationships is a book about healing and co-creating healthy, functional relationships for those who grew up in a dysfunctional family such as one that included alcoholism, addiction, and/or codependency.
Based on Thawing Addiction, Serenity Cafe Recovery Center is different than the other courses here at Serenity Cafe. It is built to provide an online structure, services, and Community similar to an intensive outpatient program.
Thawing the Spirit: STOP treating the symptoms of emotional or psychological distress! Use them to trace, unpack, and heal the root cause with Don's "Reverse Engineering Symptoms" and "R.A.D.I.C.A.L. Reintegration Protocol".
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Thaw the Iceberg Courses
Thaw-Freedom from Frozen Feelings guides members through an easy-to-understand, integrated model of recovery from depression, addiction, codependency, Complex-PTSD (aka Adult/Child Syndrome), and other manifestations of the emotional wounds of abandonment, shame, and contempt. The use of Journal Questions in each of the 13 modules, helps to integrate and apply the concepts in the user's own unique process and experience.
Counseling & Coaching Services
Can't Come In Person? Join Me Online with Our HIPPA-Compliant Web Conferencing Platform
(Say Goodbye to Boring Online Meetings!)
Here are Examples of the Online Facilities at Serenity Cafe Academy
and Recovery Center
These public studios are available 24 hours, 7 days a week for any member of Serenity Cafe. Meet with a sponsor, counselor, family member, or friend. When seats are full no one else can enter. Upload your picture, use one of our avatars, or turn on your Circle Cam.
These public studios are available 24 hours, 7 days a week for any member of Serenity Cafe. Meet with a couple or parents with a child or teen. When seats are full no one else can enter. Upload your picture, use one of our avatars, or turn on your Circle Cam.
These resources are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for any member of Serenity Cafe. When Don is facilitating a group session the rooms will be locked for 60 to 90 minutes, maybe longer for special events. In the public facilities, when not in use already members can send a link to friends, family, church group or any support group. Private facilities will have a password for Members of the group only.
Try the Sample of Visual and Auditory Bilateral Stimulation Video Below. Use the gear in the lower right corner to change the speed and the expanding arrows to go full-screen.
[Don provides free webinars to show members how and why to combine BLS and EFT]
All of the elements in these EFT-BLS Studios can be resized, moved around, and made full-screen. The elements can be used as stand-alone or integrated in any combination to suit your preferences. Click Here to visit the public Studio (7 Seats). The private EFT-BLS Studios have only 1 seat. When occupied no one else can enter. That's why I made 8 private studios.
Serenity Cafe Academy
Here's More of What's Included:
Thaw ~ Freedom From Frozen Feelings
Serenity Cafe Academy Online Course with EBook Included
Total Value: $37.00
Thaw - Freedom from Frozen Feelings is the "flagship" release in Don's Thawing the Iceberg Series (Oct 2011).
Just as it is with this course, several of the courses in the Serenity Cafe Academy are designed for use with or without a journal. Taking time to go through this course, and answering all of the suggested journal questions will be a great primer as you go into specific areas for recovery.
Get the Paperback or Kindle Version on Amazon
Thawing Adult-Child Syndrome
Serenity Cafe Academy Online Course with EBook Included
Total Value: $47.00
Thawing Adult/Child Syndrome is designed to surface the underlying patterns of behavior and limiting beliefs that keep us stuck in depression, addiction, codependency, painful relationships, and other survival skills that now interfere with healthy intimacy.
Get the Paperback or Kindle Version on Amazon
Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues
Serenity Cafe Academy Online Course with EBook Included
Total Value: $47.00
Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues mimics the developmental processes of childhood. The emotional pain that accumulated during the first stage of development was carried forward as a foundation for the second stage. The first and second stages lay a foundation for the third stage, etc. Similarly, healing accumulates laying a foundation for healing the second stage, and so forth. The program relies heavily on over 60 experiential audio programs to facilitate the emotional component of that healing process.
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Thawing Toxic Relationships
Serenity Cafe Academy Online Course with EBook Included
Total Value: $47.00
In Don's Thawing Toxic Relationship Online course, there are four sections. Each section consists of multiple lessons, each lesson consists of a video, sometimes with worksheets, and always with detailed instructions.
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Serenity Café Recovery Center
Serenity Cafe Academy Online Course with EBook Included
Total Value: $47.00
Thawing Addiction ~ the Tip of the Iceberg is the basis for the Serenity Cafe Recovery Center. The Recovery Center is a suite of online recovery tools, education, relapse prevention, and the type of structures typically included in an intensive treatment program. If one begins working on the most painful issues first, it usually stirs up a compulsion to seek comfort and relief the only way we know - by engaging in our addiction of choice.
Get the Paperback or Kindle Version on Amazon
Thawing the Spirit - Blending Science & Spirituality From a Biblical Perspective
Serenity Cafe Academy Online Course with EBook Included
Total Value: $47.00
Thawing the Spirit ~ Blending Science and Spirituality with a Biblical Perspective tells us to STOP focusing solely on the symptoms of emotional or psychological distress that brought us to recovery. We need to use them to trace back, unpack, and heal the root cause of symptoms of trauma, complex PTSD, attachment wounds, depression, anxiety, addictions, compulsions, and relationship issues.
Get the Paperback or Kindle Version on Amazon
Guided Imagery Audio & Video Sessions
From the Oasis @ Serenity Cafe Media Library
Total Value: $17.00
Guided Imagery audio and videos for General use, relaxation, stress-related issues, stress management, and personal growth. Put on your headphones, turn the sound down to a comfortable level, and settle into a comfortable position, then listen a few times a week.
These are great for those who want to recondition the nervous system with meditation, visualization, mindfulness, or other mental programs. Bonus: A free membership for my courses and audio on Soundwise Mobile app
Meditation Music Audio & Video Sessions
From the Oasis @ Serenity Cafe Media Library
Total Value: $17.00
Learn how to use the visualizations and affirmations to supercharge your meditative experiences — remember that the two most important processes in reprogramming the mind are Intensity and Repetition. The audio and videos add intensity, and listening at least once per day for three weeks adds repetition.
These are great for those who want to recondition the nervous system with meditation, visualization, mindfulness, or other mental programs. Bonus: A free membership for all my courses and audio on Soundwise Mobile app
Hypnosis & Self-Hypnosis Audio & Video Sessions
From the Oasis @ Serenity Cafe Media Library
Total Value: $27.00
Self-hypnosis, meditation, mindfulness, and many other skills help us reprogram our mental default mode (which is where we spend 95% of our day), not to mention adding the power of visualization and affirmation. The guided meditations here are designed with hypnotic languaging patterns for specific changes we want to develop.
These are also great for those who want to recondition the nervous system with meditation, visualization, mindfulness, or other mental programs. Bonus: A free membership for my courses and audio on Soundwise Mobile app
Brainwave Entrainment Audio & Video Sessions
From the Oasis @ Serenity Cafe Media Library
Total Value: $27.00
Isochronic Brainwave Entrainment and Binaural Beats including Beta, Alpha, Theta, and Delta levels. Helps to encourage various levels of brainwave activity for various purposes. (Headphones Required)
Live Webinars, Events, and Webinar Replays
For Clients and Members Only
Total Value: $120 (Each)
Live Webinars, Webinar Replays, Events, and coaching calls. This feature is for our Coaching clients and Serenity Cafe members. You become a Serenity Cafe Member when you register for free portal access, enroll in a course or program at Serenity Cafe Academy, or become a client of Don or Angie. Webinars and other events are free to all members and clients.
Thawing the Iceberg Online
at Serenity Cafe Academy
Includes...
All Six Thawing the Iceberg Series Ebook Downloads
$50.00 Value
All Six Thawing the Iceberg Series Online Courses
$230.00 Value
Optional 1:1 Coaching or Counseling with Don Carter
$120.00 EACH
Private EFT-BLS Studios Available 24/7/365 Days a Yr
Unlimited Value
All Webinars and up to 3 Weekly Group Sessions (Online)
$1440.00 Value
Total Monetary Value? That Depends on You!
The REAL Value is Determined by You and Your Level of Commitment.
It will be Worthless if You Don't Do the Work, Priceless if You Do!
I can offer the tools and I can join you on the journey, but YOU have the hard part! YOU have to take the steps, complete the work, and follow the path(s). While this does NOT require perfection it does call for commitment and discipline. You need to ask yourself how badly you want it.
There is only one of me and my availability ebbs and flows. There may be a lag in taking on new clients from time to time. If you see the options to enroll in counseling or coaching below, it means I am currently taking new clients. The option to sign up for the courses will always be available.
Although they can enhance professional help, these courses are not meant to replace professional evaluation and therapy. If you don't get that with me as your counselor or don't already have a counselor, please reach out to someone for evaluation and recommendations.
If you are feeling like hurting yourself, having an emotional crisis, or even thinking of suicide STOP and go to a local emergency room or call a local law enforcement agency. Here are some resources to find help in the USA: Local Suicide Hotline Information
If you already have experience or training in counseling and feel competent to take the courses and resources only, feel free to do that. You can ask questions at the live webinars and events. You can also message me and text me with questions from the portal.
Doing these activities alone has its place and benefits. However, doing them with an accountability partner or group is even better! Invite a close, safe, like-minded friend or friends to join with you. Let me know when someone you invite takes you up on it and I will give them a 50% off coupon to join you.
If your partner is your therapist or coach, I will enroll them for free under your name. Once on board in my client portal, message me. I will get them enrolled under your name.
REFUND POLICY: If you are not completely satisfied with a specific coaching or counseling session, I will refund 100% of your money for that specific session. No questions asked.
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All prices in USD