Building Resilience and Wellness​
We all have a unique journey of our lives. Some may have an easy start, others may not. When we grow up in an environment without enough safety, stability, connection and belongingness, we develop strategies to manage the chaos inside and outside. We call it developmental trauma.
When faced with developmental trauma, we find survival strategies to manage the chaos when we were young but a lot of time those strategies no longer benefit us when we grow up. We still live our lives with a trauma map even though our current circumstances are completely different.
Our bodies are full of wisdom and when our bodies develop strategies to manage chaos over a prolonged period time, we call this trauma physiology. We may brace our core muscles when try to contain unwanted emotions, we may learn to disconnect from our bodies because the somatic inputs at the time of trauma were too much for us. These are just a few examples of trauma physiology.
In this healing journey, we explore ways to re-negotiate our trauma experiences and to support our body and mind to find a more regulated and coherence state.
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner & Trauma Psychotherapist
I feel it is a privilege to be able to walk with people on their healing journey. Both in my career and in my personal educational pursuits I have spent years learning how trauma affects us psychologically and physiologically. I am a licensed psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. One of the most fundamental aspects of being human is our desire to live in harmony with ourselves. Trauma, however, is often a major obstacle to achieving that goal. My mission is to support clients to build resilience and re-negotiate with their traumas in order to find a healthier relationship with themselves and others.
My Approach
Somatic Experiencing (SE™)
Somatic Experiencing (SE™) is a body-oriented therapeutic model for healing trauma and other stress disorders. It is based on a multidisciplinary intersection of physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics and has been clinically applied for more than four decades. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine.​ The Somatic Experiencing approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions.
DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning)
DARe is a treatment modality built on extensive research about attachment styles and how a better understanding of those attachment styles can unlock the human's natural ability to self-heal. Our brains store memories of early experiences, creating patterns that deeply affect our relationships and our behaviors in adult life. The DARe treatment modality helps us discover the source of those patterns and to apply the right understanding to unwind them, thus releasing new energy to heal trauma.
