Trauma Therapy for adults that is somatic and experiential
My practice provides trauma therapy tailored to the individual needs of each client and meant to help clients resolve the often lifelong nervous system dysregulation that has impacted their relationships to others and their awareness of themselves. I use therapies such as EMDR, Natural Processing, and Deep Brain Reorienting to help clients reprocess trauma so that they can start to feel more calm and connected, rather than being constantly stuck in fight/flight or freeze/shutdown.
There is within all of us a drive to heal, to bring to resolution our past experiences/traumas that remain unresolved. What gets in the way of that is all the ways we ‘disconnect’ from our awareness of our physical sensations and emotions when we go into states of overwhelm. By using therapies that help clients stay connected to their body sensations and emotions during trauma reprocessing without being overwhelmed by it, clients can begin to make sense of what’s happened, how its affected them, and finally start to move forward.
“The impulse to heal is real and powerful, and lies within the client. Our job is to evoke that healing power, to meet its tests and needs and to support it in its expression and development. We are not healers. We are the context in which healing is inspired.”
Ron Kurtz, Body-Centered Psychotherapy
Typical Client Issues…
Clients who are entering a new phase of life and are struggling with identity issues, marriage/parenthood, separation/divorce, feelings of shame/inadequacy, struggling with uncertainty or feeling a lack of control.
Clients who struggle with being flexible or going with the flow and who would like to be more spontaneous and playful. Clients who struggle with social anxiety, or who tend to focus on others needs more than their own.
Clients who fear being rejected by others, who’d rather tell themselves they are fine being alone than face the struggles that come with trying to find connection.
Clients struggling with anxiety, having sleepless nights because they are facing some challenge in life that leaves them asking, “What do I do now?” and are unable to find an answer.
Clients who feel disillusioned by politics and the state of the world. Clients feeling the impacts of discrimination, trauma, violence, neglect. Clients feeling like they have no place in the world or that their entire life has felt like trying to swim upstream.
Bonus points if these clients are also neurodivergent and/or LGBTQIA+!
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