Trauma Therapy and Services
We are wired for survival. Let’s Chase the Resilience.
If you have experienced a distressing event, or trauma from past or current relationships, you may have noticed that you can't quite “get over it.” That’s because trauma can be as much a biological experience as it is a psychological one.
That feeling of shaking, your heart racing, sweating, agitation, numbing out, or shutting down—these can all be responses of a nervous system trying to protect us. Fortunately, we can learn to regulate. When we learn how to bring ourselves back toward center and reset the nervous system, we begin to build confidence in our ability to handle difficult situations and intense emotions.
What we pay attention to grows. When we practice noticing something other than the distress—and asking, “What else is true?”—we give our nervous system and mind another place to go. Over time, this can help create new patterns and a greater sense of choice, balance, and trust in ourselves.
This is resiliency: not avoiding distress, but knowing that we can find our way forward, that the emotional charge doesn’t knock us off our feet. Knowing we are okay.
Trauma Resiliency Model
The Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM)® and Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® are designed to help individuals understand the biology of traumatic stress reactions and learn specific skills to return the body, mind, and spirit back to balance after experiencing traumatic events or regular everyday stressors. These skills can awaken the hope that has, for some, been lost after natural and human-made disasters. These skills are also necessary for everyday living to feel balanced and to be able to be in relationships. We all have hotspots that activate our deeper wounds and trigger our highs and lows.
Brainspotting (BSP)
I also offer a specific modality called Brainspotting (BSP), which is at the forefront of trauma treatment and was derived out of the well-known EMDR model. Brainspotting locates points in the client’s visual field that connect directly to where your emotional, unprocessed trauma is located in the subcortical brain. Accessing this part of our brain and bypassing our 'thinking' brain' is the fastest, most efficient healing process. We know that our brain is capable of incredible healing if we allow the space and opportunity to do so. Having a trained and more importantly, attuned therapist to be alongside you on the journey is part of what makes this so accessible.
