Online across Tennessee & Florida and In-person in Brentwood, TN
Trauma Therapy
Holistic, attachment-informed therapy for adults
Anxiety & depression feel like they rule your life.
You’re noticing the impacts of painful experiences and are ready to finally feel some relief.
You’re feeling triggered in new ways and ready to figure out what is underneath these triggers.
You’ve tried talk therapy, but it hasn’t really worked.
Despite trying therapy in the past, you haven’t really gotten what you want out of it. You feel like it hasn’t addressed your core issues.
You’re still struggling with:
negative core beliefs about being unlovable
repeating unhealthy patterns in relationships
anger, anxiety & deep-rooted fear
the inner critic who pushes you constantly and is affecting your view of yourself & your most valued relationships
There is hope!
Holistic trauma therapy can help you find the clarity you are looking for.
My integrative, whole-person approach addresses the core of your issues.
Modalities often used in sessions are Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems, Healing Our Core Issues & Somatic Therapy.
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Brainspotting is based on the idea that our visual field can lead us to the source of emotional and physical pain in the body.
With the use of Brainspotting, we stimulate, focus and activate the body’s inherent capacity to heal itself from trauma.
If you are a researcher, please read more about Brainspotting here.
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Trauma Therapy sessions last from 50 minutes to 3 hours (with breaks as needed). When re-processing trauma, intensives are useful to really address a specific area you want to feel relief from.
Longer session allow your emotional brain to stay activated for a longer period of time, allowing time for whole-body integration of past experiences.
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Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Somatic work are powerful therapeutic tools that helps process and unravel stuck and unresolved issues. Trauma therapy sessions bring up feelings to express, sensations to release and memories to process. This integrative approach can often lead to powerful insights and new perspectives on old issues. Your whole body system will process trauma or negative experiences and leave you feeling less activation or somatic symptoms.
brainspotting
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Where you look affects how you feel.
Dr. david grand, developer of brainspotting
who it’s for
trauma therapy is for you if…
You grew up in a difficult home environment
Are struggling with your inner critic & want relief now
Notice patterns in your relationships that aren’t healthy & you are ready to learn a different way
who it’s not for
trauma therapy is not for you if…
You’re not interested in getting to the root cause of your issues
You’re not able to self-regulate
You only like cognitive talk therapy
You are simply not ready —- you’ll know when you are. There’s no need to rush it.
Trauma therapy options, just for you.
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Sessions are 90 minutes once a week for 10 weeks. Choose a specific area of focus so that you go deep and experience relief.
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Trauma intensives are a powerful and effective way to jumpstart the therapy process, get unstuck, or process trauma. You can book 3 consecutive days of trauma therapy (3 hours each day). These are perfect for those who are ready for a breakthrough.
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Sessions are 3 hours once or twice a month. Some clients meet with another therapist for additional support for daily stressors, allowing us to focus entirely on the trauma you’d like to process.
Together, we will:
explore
the connection between the physical & emotional aspects of what triggers or bothers you. I invite you to leave the judgment and bring the curiosity.
uncover
how all of your life experiences connect with one another. Your triggers today often started a long time ago. By addressing what bothers you today, we will also allow your brain and body to process what has been stored & unprocessed in the body from a long time ago.
Regain
a sense of clarity about your life experiences, yourself & what you really want out of life.
Please know this:
Healing is possible.
frequently asked questions
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While I cannot guarantee the modalities I use will work for you, I have used them for years and have had clients come back and specifically request Brainspotting due to its effectiveness. I gently walk you through the whole process so that you know what to expect.
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I regularly collaborate with other therapists! If you enjoy talk therapy with your current therapist, you may want to consider coming to me just for specific issues related to trauma, phobias, or where you feel stuck.
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Talk therapy only gets you so far. We can talk all day about your problems. I personally want you to feel better as quickly as possible. You have suffered long enough.
Brainspotting, IFS & somatic work are powerful tools that allows you to get to the core issues of what is troubling you. My clients often walk away with their own internal insights from trauma therapy in a way that talk therapy can’t help in the same way.
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It is likely you have heard of EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing). Brainspotting was developed as an offshoot of EMDR. Both are brain-body somatic approaches, use bilateral stimulation, require minimal talking in session and help you process information stored in the amygdala.
EMDR has a specific protocol to follow and takes multiple sessions to reprocess past trauma. Brainspotting is more flexible and relies on the attunement between the client and therapist. Brainspotting allows for the client to change eye positions or close eyes if that is more comfortable.
Both are effective models for trauma reprocessing.
For more info read here.
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Simply fill out the request for a free consultation form. I’ll answer whatever questions you have & we will get you on the path to feeling better soon!