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My approach combines years of trauma-focused experience with advanced training in methods like DBR and EMDR to support deep, lasting healing.
DBR (Deep Brain Reorienting) may be for you if you notice yourself numbing, blanking out, shutting down, or shifting between different self-states. It may help if you struggle to manage overwhelming feelings such as rage, panic, terror, grief, or shame.
DBR can be supportive if you experience deep emotional pain related to rejection, humiliation, or feeling profoundly alone. It may also be a good fit if you often feel interpersonally disorganized, especially if this stems from past or current attachment or relational trauma.
What is DBR?
(Deep Brain Reorienting)
Clinical studies about traumatic events and the brain have established that biggest barrier to PTSD treatment is the issue of shock. Unhealed shock can contribute to a domino effect of brain connections that lead to pain and self-attack. DBR is designed to release this unhealed shock so that accessing and healing aloneness pain is increasingly possible.
While there are other well researched trauma psychotherapy approaches, many are focused on symptom management. These methods can be helpful but only provide temporary, “band-aid”, or symptom relief strategies. This does not get to the root of the issue.
How does it work?
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is a way to gently guide the body and brain to heal from trauma. DBR works directly with the underlying neurological responses hidden in the body. DBR is known to be gentle yet thorough because it does not focus on the narrative or thoughts associated with the trauma but rather focuses on the physical sensations such as tension in the neck, shoulder, or chest, which are indicative/symptomatic of shock after having been through a trauma.
I use DBR therapy to guide my clients to release this hidden shock, so that their painful experiences can have more space to heal. The aim at the end of each DBR session is to help you generate new perspectives about how much control you really have over your sense of safety as well as a clearer sense of your identity. For more information, please also visit www.deepbrainreorienting.com
EMDR may be for you if you’ve experienced a difficult or traumatic event and find that the memories still feel vivid, overwhelming, or stuck. It can help if you’re living with symptoms of PTSD — such as intrusive thoughts, nightmares, or a constant sense of being on edge — or if talk therapy hasn’t fully resolved the emotional or physical reactions you feel. EMDR may also be supportive if your body responds with panic, tension, or shutdown even when you know you're safe, or if past experiences have left you with painful beliefs about yourself, such as feeling unworthy, unsafe, or at fault.
What is EMDR Therapy?
(Eye Movement Reprocessing Desensitization)
EMDR is a psychotherapy approach specifically geared towards providing relief from disturbing memories. Short for Eye Movement desensitization and Reprocessing, it essentially offers a guided method to recalling troubling experiences while using the eyes to track the the psychotherapist’s hand as it move back and forth and side to side in the field of vision. As this process happens, new internal associations begin to connect or reconnect and disturbing memories and feelings becomes more tolerable. Alternatives to visual tracking such as rhythmic tapping on your hands or alternating audio tones in the ears are also known to be effective. For more information, please also visit www.emdria.org.