Trauma Therapy: Heal Childhood Trauma With Mindfulness Based Body-Mind Therapy, EMDR Therapy and IFS

An Inspired Journey to Embodied Wholeness

I help free people by guiding them into their innate healing potential.

Beyond Talk Therapy: Transforming Your Life Through Deeper Healing

Welcome. How many times have you helplessly watched yourself do the same self-sabotaging behaviors like people-pleasing, perfectionism or procrastination? Perhaps you get emotionally, or physically hijacked from out of the blue?

If you are a high functioning individual who, despite doing talk therapy, still feels stuck, you're not alone. Talking may not be enough.

Many clients seek my help to get unstuck, as I’m a seasoned therapist who offers trauma-informed, leading-edge therapies like EMDR therapy, somatic talk therapy, and parts work (IFS and TIST).

These clients craved relief from generalized anxiety disorder, low self esteem, challenging relationships, or self-sabotaging habits like perfectionism or imposter syndrome.

It’s Not You; It’s Your Biology

If you’re a childhood trauma survivor, talking about details in talk therapy can reactivate trauma symptoms, even if it happened long ago.

I offer evidence-based therapies known to relieve trauma symptoms, like PSTD, panic disorder or self-limiting patterns.

These therapies engage our innate healing potential for an embodied sense that “I survived” and “it’s over.” This is more effective than mere intellectual understanding.

Trauma symptoms can feel more like sudden emotional overwhelm or physical discomfort. You may not recall details, as your analytical brain is often thwarted during trauma. Why? If a sabertooth tiger is after you, you don’t need to discern what color the stripes are. Our body pours all its energy into our animal defenses.

When triggered, it’s hard to recall insight-fueled action plans from talk therapy.

There’s Good Reason Why Change is Slippery with Childhood “Adaptations”

You might blame yourself for not "fixing" your issues, such as with addictions (workaholism, excessive screen time, etc.). But there's more to the story.

Your limbic (vs. rational) brain stores childhood adaptations (vs. traumas) that now trip you up. Its job is to resist change to “protect” you.

“Adaptive” habits or strategies, like people-pleasing or perfectionism, can overwhelm your best intentions to change them, especially when triggered. These adaptations are “baked-in.”

The Residue of Childhood Trauma May be Hard to Spot

Here are some examples of childhood trauma or wounding, as it’s seen in adulthood:

  • Anxiety disorder, panic attack disorder, and depression

  • Sudden emotional overwhelm or hijacking into anger, fear, or shame

  • Self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviors (perfectionism, addictions, or low self esteem)

  • Chronic emotional or physical hypervigilance or catastrophizing

  • Going into a shame spiral after your boss suggests a minor course correction.

  • Even though quite competent, your inner critic, who harps on that "you're not good enough," also saddles you with “imposter syndrome.

Trauma Treatment for Childhood Trauma and Wounding

Essentially, I facilitate people in delving into their innate healing potential that exists in their body.

I use gentle trauma-informed therapies known to “update” old, ingrained beliefs, behaviors, and trauma or PTSD symptoms.

Potentially, these approaches can create a lasting, below-the-iceberg kind of change. These include:

  • EMDR Therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

  • Somatic mind body therapy (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy)

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  • Trauma-informed stabilization treatment (TIST)

  • The flash technique.

Support for Healing from Childhood Trauma and Wounding

Together, we would engage your innate healing potential to help you feel more authentic, empowered, and embodied.

We would work in a warm and compassionate environment that values the intelligence of challenges brought for healing.  

We would gently update limiting beliefs, challenging behaviors, and/or trauma symptoms like panic attack symptoms, PTSD symptoms, depression, or flashbacks that can steal your well being.

Common Benefits of Mindfulness-Based Somatic Mind Body Trauma Therapy

Somatic mind body therapy, and EMDR therapy, helps heal childhood wounds and PTSD symptoms. It releases energy, no longer needed to repress trauma symptoms. Common benefits include:

  • Living life without getting hijacked by anxiety, emotional overwhelm, or depression

  • increased self-acceptance, self-compassion, and emotional resilience

  • More satisfying relationships and work-life balance

  • Deeper fulfillment and purpose in life

    Take the Next Step Toward Healing and Freedom From Your Painful Past

You have good reason to feel optimistic. I invite you to set up a free 20-minute consultation to see if this work might benefit you too.