Services

Trauma Therapy

Trauma lives in the experience, not the event. When trauma occurs, it overwhelms the limbic system in the brain. This part of your brain has an important role, with responsibilities that link your emotions, memory and behavior. The components of your limbic system work together with other brain regions so you can attain higher mental functioning every day.

EMDR

Our brains have a natural way to recover from traumatic memories and events. This process involves communication between the amygdala (the alarm signal for stressful events), the hippocampus (which assists with learning, including memories about safety and danger), and the prefrontal cortex (which analyzes and controls behavior and emotion). While many times traumatic experiences can be managed and resolved spontaneously, they may not be processed without help.

Stress responses are part of our natural fight, flight, or freeze instincts. When distress from a disturbing event remains, the upsetting images, thoughts, and emotions may create feelings of overwhelm, of being back in that moment, or of being “frozen in time.” EMDR therapy helps the brain process these memories, and allows normal healing to resume. The experience is still remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze response from the original event is resolved.

BRAINSPOTTING

BrainSpotting is an advanced brain-body therapy that focuses on identifying, processing, and releasing trauma, mental health imbalances, and emotional stress. Derived from EMDR, this therapy is based on the premise that “where you look affects how you feel” and that eye positions correlate with sub-conscious experiences.

When and eye position is identified that is related to an upsetting issue, there is a sub-cortical release process of the emotional and physical stress that often happens. Then, more natural adaptive information replaces the once disturbing issue. BrianSpotting reaches parts of the brain that are not accessed with traditional talk therapy.

Somatic Therapy

Somatic Experiencing ® utilizes information provided by your nervous system and inner felt sense to locate areas that are stuck on, stuck off, or just out of alignment in the flow of life.
Feeling overwhelmed, shut down, anxious, stressed, emotionally drained, and emotionally distressed, can have a massive impact on yourself and your relationships, that is why we partner with the nervous system to increase its resiliency and reprocess feeling stuck towards movement and flow.

When our nervous system is stuck firing fight, flight, and freeze responses, we are experiencing ourselves, our relationships, and our world through a “danger” lens. In a somatic session, we will practice getting curious about what is happening on a nervous system level. By utilizing a mind-body framework, we are able to support the completion, discharge, re-embodiment, re-organization, and reclamation of a grounded, calm, and connected lived experience for more aliveness, peace, calm, and ease.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

We all have different aspects or “parts” of ourself. IFS uses a family systems model to better understand, heal, and unburden our various parts of self that impact our degree of access that we have to the true Essence of Self. IFS is designed to help you navigate your internal world, to understand and unburden the different parts of you that don’t know how to trust your Self-leadership. When different parts of ourselves want or need different things, we can start to feel stuck, confused, or overwhelmed.

These feelings, if left unaddressed, can lead to anxiety, stress, depression, as well as difficulties in our relationships with others. By addressing these feelings, this allows you to have a different relationship with states of anxiety, stress, fear, and self-doubt, and live a more authentic life in accordance with your values and goals. While the various aspects or parts of our personalities are perfectly natural, most of us don’t pay much attention to them even though they often account for a large part of our internal dialogues, and experience in life.

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) integrates the use of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, with psychotherapy to treat mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and trauma. In a controlled setting in your own home or an office, ketamine is self-administered to induce an altered state of consciousness, which can enhance the therapeutic process by

allowing clients to access repressed memories, emotions, and perspectives. This altered state can promote deep introspection, emotional release, and new insights, facilitating healing and growth. KAP is typically conducted under the supervision of a trained therapist, ensuring safety and guiding the client through the experience to maximize therapeutic benefits.

EMDR & Breathwork Intensives

EMDR & Breathwork Intensive sessions combines EMDR with Breathwork techniques to facilitate deep trauma healing and emotional release. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation,
typically through eye movements, to help individuals reprocess traumatic memories, reducing their emotional intensity. When paired with Breathwork, which involves controlled breathing patterns to alter consciousness and access deeper emotional

states, the session can become even more powerful. Breathwork primes the body and mind, opening up channels for emotional expression and release, while EMDR helps reprocess and integrate these experiences. This combination can lead to profound shifts in trauma resolution, self-awareness, and emotional regulation, providing a holistic approach to healing with a condensed, focused timeframe of 3-5 hour sessions.

Relationship Guidance

Utilizing Emotionally Focused Therapy, this is a short term structured approach developed for couples and based on attachment science. This type of therapy is successful with traditional and non-traditional couples dealing with depression,
trauma, anxiety, and unsolved relationship dilemmas.

Treatment goals would include expanding and reorganizing emotional responses, creating a positive shift in interactions with both partners. This helps create a more secure bond for increased safety, trust for improved communication to help each partner feel seen, heard, and understood.