Falcone Institute Methodologies

“...how eternally grateful we are for the work everyone at Falcone Institute has done....you saw our son better than anyone else who has worked with him, and that is one extensive list. Your insight into his mind, motivations, and behaviors was uncanny... Your entire model and program is simply phenomenal and unlike anything else we have found. You all are doing things right by kids who are so often wronged. Truly, words can’t express my gratitude and respect for all of you. I admire each of you and am in awe of the work you do.”
— Parent of 9-year old client

Madeline Falcone, LMFT, has developed a holistic approach to develop and implement personalized, integrated developmental plans based on the following Program areas:

  • Emotional Intelligence
    Practical therapeutic methods develop emotional awareness, increase personal accountability, reduce stress and foster creative problem solving.

  • Mind-Body Integration
    Through exercises that increase physiological awareness of one’s emotional state, we help individuals minimize their stress, restore their focus and allow them to consistently reach peak learning states.

  • Language Skills ~ Expressive and Receptive
    Through strengthening and developing the neural pathways underlying reading, writing and oral communication, we foster verbal and non-verbal social, emotional and content learning.

  • Higher Order Thinking and Conceptualization Skills
    Individualized critical thinking programs develop academic, social and personal problem-solving strategies. In order to promote greater knowledge acquisition, we blend powerful cognitive strategies that promote active and independent learning.

  • Academic Content Areas
    We apply individualized learning strategies and skills in all subjects, ranging from pre-kindergarten through college-level coursework.

  • Athleticism
    Brain and body integration movements and therapeutic methodologies reduce stress and increase athletic and personal performance.

  • Family Intelligence 
    Individual and family therapy sessions address awareness, parenting strategies, communication, positive cooperation and productive choices.

Our team applies the Socratic Method of questioning to incorporate and weave various methodologies into our individualized programs, including:

Emotional Management - Practical methods to reduce stress, heighten emotional awareness, increase personal accountability, and foster creative problem solving.

Energy Psychology Methods - Mind and body integration methods which reduce stress and increase emotional, academic, athletic and personal performance. Specifically, these are self-help skills and in-depth balances for all ages and issues.

Articulation, reading and Spelling Therapy - Evidence-based reading therapy program that applies multi-modal methods to teach the individual how to internalize, recognize and discriminate sound production. The individual moves from "learning how to read" to "reading to learn".

Symbolic Imagery for Spelling and Sight Word Recognition - An individualized program that applies imaging for sight word development, reading fluency, spelling accuracy and internalization of the phonemic code.

Language Comprehension and Concept Formation - Evidence-based language processing and comprehension program that develops imagery and oral/written language comprehension.

Math Comprehension, Concept Formation and Application - A mathematics program that integrates language comprehension skills to teach number sense. Mathematical concept imagery, reasoning and computation skills are emphasized.

Social Pragmatics - Formal and informal interventions through small-group settings.

Thinking Skills - Develops academic, social and personal problem-solving strategies.

Organizational Skills - Teaches planning time management and goal setting strategies that are applied to academic, social and personal organization.

Study & Test Taking Skills - Individuals learn specific strategies to foster their mastery and demonstration of content knowledge in testing environments.

Individual Subject Mastery - Individuals learn to integrate emotional management, energy psychology methods and learning strategies into content areas.

Music Therapy - Examples of music therapy include The Listening Program® and Biolateral Music®. These programs stimulate brain functioning, stress management and auditory processing of full spectrum sound.

Somatic / Sensory Integration - Integration of the mind/body connection through movement and other individualized interventions.

Family Skill Building - Integration of skills into family communication and functioning.

Neurocognitive Program (NCP) - Through collaboration with NTLGroup, we provide a brain-based program that remediates imbalances in brain function, improving cognitive performance, learning capacity, thinking skills, executive function and emotional regulation. It has proven effective in addressing addiction issues, TBIs and other acute or chronic brain-based trauma.