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About My Clients
Has something happened that left you feeling shattered, shaky or enraged all the time? Trauma is like feeling anxiety, triggered, nightmares, random thoughts, and avoiding people and places all the time. It's lonely and exhausting, straining on relationships and jobs. You are not crazy or broken. You’ve had a natural reaction to an overwhelming experience. I'd love to help you take back your life like I have with many other survivors.
My Background and Approach
EMDR and DBR Trained. There are two types of approaches to treating trauma, top-down and bottom-up. Top-down treatments are cognitive (thought) focused and include most talk therapies. Bottom-up approaches are rooted in neuroscience and focus on areas deeper in the brain. I utilize a combination of both with a heavy emphasis on the bottom-up approaches. Consider that symptoms caused by trauma are not something that people can be talked out of. If logic could reset the nervous system, people wouldn't spend years suffering from trauma related symptoms. Trauma symptoms are more visceral and nervous system based. With Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) we target how traumas are stored in the limbic system. With Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) we target how trauma sequences are stored in the midbrain section of the brain stem. Both modalities are helping many people make profound changes to their lives more quickly than with talk therapy.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I have two core beliefs about our reactions to trauma: 1) it serves a function and 2) it isn't just emotional. Whether you "check out" a lot, don't communicate well with others, often feel angry, or have outbursts, I know there is a reasonable explanation. While some of those behaviors don't serve you well in your current life, they did help you adapt and survive at some point in your life. This is why I don't have negative judgements about what others perceive as negative behavior. Since your body and mind function as one, it isn't just an emotional or mental issue. People who've survived traumatic experiences are more likely to have chronic health and disease issues. You can't really have a healthy body without a healthy brain. The good news is you are endowed with the ability to heal your mind just like your body; they just need a little help now and then. If you want to learn more about how I can help, schedule a free consultation. No hassle. No obligation.