Trauma Processing Therapies
Trauma impacts both the mind and body. Our trauma-focused therapies are designed to reach deeper levels of healing, helping you move beyond survival and find strength.
Brainspotting
What is Brainspotting?
Brainspotting is based on “Where you look affects how you feel.” It is a powerful mind/body therapy that has rapid effects. We see with our eyes and our brains. Brainspotting helps the client work with deep focused mindfulness and fixed eye positions to process and release emotionally and bodily-based conditions such as PTSD, phobias, trauma, relationship, and performance issues. It is also helpful for expanding the body's reservoir of vitality and opening to a new awareness for enhancing life and improving performance. Learn more at brainspotting.com.
Could it help me?
Brainspotting is a useful technique for you if you have worked on yourself for a while and feel you still can’t shift something that is holding you stuck. Brainspotting is often done with BioLateral Sound, which is calming and enhances results.
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When we go through a trauma in life, we naturally react with fight, flight, or freeze. When we freeze, a connection of the feelings we had at the time of trauma and a feeling in our body occurs. That stuck-frozen feeling becomes formatted within us and recurs when we encounter similar situations with new challenges. Often, to create a new way of approaching life more harmoniously, we need to complete the movement that did not happen in the original trauma.
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Brainspotting allows your body to release the stress that it learned in the past. This focused attention on a situation seems to trigger deep in our brain the area that contains unprocessed memory and feeling. It appears to tap into our own body’s innate wisdom to heal. It has the potential to unlock the circular thinking, negative thoughts, self-protective patterns and limited beliefs we continuously act from, even when we don’t want to.
Applications of Brainspotting
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Physical and emotional trauma
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Anxiety
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Depression
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PTSD
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Recovery from injury/accident trauma
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Trauma resulting from medical interventions/treatment
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Stress/trauma-related medical illness
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Sports Performance & Creativity Enhancement
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Fibromyalgia & other chronic pain conditions
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Addictions (especially cravings)
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Perceptual problems
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Stuttering
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Environmental Illness/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Phobias
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Asthma
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Preparation and recovery from surgery
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Trauma resulting from war & natural disasters
Brainspotting Intensives
Therapy Intensives are a great way to capture the emotional healing in the moment. We offer intensive sessions spanning from 1-5 days to support motivated clients in engaging in focused therapeutic treatment and support their functioning within their day-to-day lives.
Why an intensive as opposed to Regular sessions?
Intensives can offer the “biggest bang for your buck” in therapy. By engaging in an intensive, the individual can gain symptom relief and healing faster than engaging in 60-minute weekly sessions.
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The session is focused solely on the goals of treatment, while your therapist is there to monitor closely and support you throughout the intensive treatment to accomplish the treatment goals.
Emotional and Physical Healing
Brainspotting is a powerful therapeutic technique that supports neurophysiological regulation through emotional healing, expansion towards more positive self-regard, awareness of triggers of disturbing behaviors, and blocks towards personal growth.
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
What is EMDR Therapy?
EMDR is a structured therapy that encourages the patient to focus briefly on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and PTSD symptoms. Ongoing research supports positive clinical outcomes, showing EMDR therapy as a helpful treatment for disorders such as anxiety, depression, OCD, chronic pain, addictions, and other distressing life experiences (Maxfield, 2019). EMDR therapy has even been superior to Prozac in trauma treatment (Van der Kolk et al., 2007). Shapiro and Forrest (2016) share that EMDR therapists in 130 countries have successfully treated millions.
Proven Therapy
EMDR therapy has been recognized as an effective treatment by many national and international organizations, such as the: American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs/Dept. of Defense, The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and the World Health Organization. More specific information on treatment guidelines can be found here.
Eye Movement Integration™ (EMI)
What is EMI?
EMI (not to be confused with EMDR) is a therapeutic approach that uses guided eye movements to assist a client to access recorded information in all its multisensory, cognitive and emotional forms. EMI uses these “resources” to the integration and resolution of distressing experiences and their problematic psychological and emotional consequences. The impressive efficacy and rapidity of EMI derives from its ability to help the mind do precisely what it was designed to do: heal itself using its own inner resources.
-Danie Beaulieu, PhD
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
What is Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)?
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy is a deep psychotherapeutic process that can produce rapid improvement for a number of conditions, including depression, anxiety, trauma, suicidality, eating disorders, addictive disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder and more.
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Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy is compatible with most other psychiatric medicines, and it can create powerful, sustained healing when other traditional interventions fail.
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Unlike the IV medical model of Ketamine therapy, sessions are conducted with the support of a therapist and medical team. Sessions that include medicine last 3 hours, and the experience is focused on the therapeutic process. Preparation and integration sessions are scheduled before and after each medicine session.​
We are in partnership with Journey Clinical, a nationwide medical company specializing in psychedelic-assisted therapy care. All medications are legal and prescribed by a licensed medical professional. You must have a qualifying diagnosis to receive this care. Check out Journey Clinicals Patient Resource Center for more information. Watch a video on the brain science here.
