Military Cognitive Health
Cortex Initiative has over a decade of experience evaluating and treating Active Duty Service Members and Veterans with a history of brain injury and repeated low level blast exposure.
Individual Therapy
These 1:1 sessions focus on the cognitive and speech/language symptoms often related to a history of brain injury (mTBI/concussions, repetitive blasts, etc).
We take a restorative and compensatory approach to treatment: by utilizing a combination of neuroplasticity concepts and individually tailored strategies, we aim to decrease symptoms in areas such as memory, attention, receptive language/listening, expressive language/speaking (to include word finding), and more.
Group Sessions
We team up with other local military TBI experts to provide a TBI Group on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. This group is educational in nature and merges information related to both cognitive and mental health.
Please see our "Events" page for registration.
Multidisciplinary Care
Synapse Integrated Therapy Center will officially open in September 2025 in Virginia Beach. This is the first interdisciplinary outpatient TBI treatment center dedicated to the military community—with a special focus on SOF Veterans and Service Members.
This center is the result of a unique collaboration between Warrior for Life Fund, Balanced Growth Therapy & Consulting, and Cortex Initiative. Together, we’ve created a space where technology and evidence-based care in three core domains come together under one roof:
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Physical Therapy (orthopedic, neuro, and vestibular rehabilitation)
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Mental Health Therapy (trauma and suicide prevention)
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Speech-Language & Cognitive Services (neurorehabilitation and cognitive-communication)
The vision behind Synapse is simple: to bridge the gap between intensive programs (like Home Base and others) and local, long-term support- at no cost to those who have served. We strive to be a comprehensive outpatient therapy center for Veterans and fill gaps in local care for active duty service members with support of commands- so there is no need to search across town for services. Synapse offers all 3 therapies in a single, 3 hour block to reduce time away from work and ease the burden of multiple appointments on multiple days, but also accommodates those who only need single appointments or want more flexibility.
Our 12 week pilot cohort begins on Monday, September 22.
Learn more about Synapse: https://warriorforlifefund.org/synapse/
