We will engage a body-based inquiry, exploration and discovery approach. The less you talk, the more you will experience. The more time you spend attending to your bodily senses in session, the more productive your session will be. It is good to remember that our traumas and issues are in our bodies, not in the stories we tell. The overall goal is brain-based behavioral changes, neural integration and increased joy and contentment.

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In session I help you identify your triggers and symptoms, track reactions and responses, slow down and spread out nervous system charges, and settle and integrate your changes.

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Sessions usually include working with your sensations, images, affects, meanings and behavior. We work together to support you in:

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• Cultivating a practice of mindfulness (detached observation)

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• Developing sensory awareness (tuning into and regulating your body’s cues)

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• Gaining impulse control (skillfulness handling two conflicting feelings or thoughts at the same time)

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• Accessing internal and external resources and new states of being

 

We will look at the stories you have about trauma and learn to use them as portals to the nervous system since trauma lives in the nervous system, not in the story.

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With this approach, you can access and work directly with the deeper subconscious parts of you that are holding the trauma or stuck pattern in place — bringing relief from unresolved traumas including early pre-verbal trauma that is not accessible by standard  psychotherapies.