“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the
barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Rumi
Understanding Trauma and the Path to Healing
Trauma isn’t just what happened to you, it’s what your nervous system had to do to survive it. Unresolved experiences can leave lasting imprints, showing up as anxiety, depression, emotional overwhelm, or difficulties in relationships. These responses aren’t flaws, they’re adaptations that once kept you safe.
Therapies like EMDR and Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) work directly with how trauma is stored in the brain and body. Rather than simply managing symptoms, these approaches help your nervous system process what was interrupted, allowing experiences to integrate instead of being relived.
Grief, whether from the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or a life transition, can feel consuming. In a safe, compassionate space, grief can be processed and carried in a way that allows you to move forward more fully and intentionally.
If you’re here, it means something in you is ready to understand your patterns, reconnect with yourself, and move from survival into a grounded, integrated way of living. Healing isn’t about becoming someone new; it’s about reclaiming the parts of you that have been waiting to return.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
(EMDR)
is an evidenced-based psychotherapy designed to help the brain digest and integrate overwhelming experiences that feel “stuck.” When trauma, attachment wounds, or chronic stress overwhelm the nervous system, memories can become stored in a fragmented, emotionally charged way. EMDR helps the brain resume its natural healing process.
Using bilateral stimulation such as guided eye movements, tapping, or alternating tones EMDR gently activates both hemispheres of the brain while you remain grounded in the present. This allows distressing experiences to be reprocessed in a way that reduces their intensity, shifts limiting beliefs, and restores a greater sense of safety and control. You are not forced to relive trauma; rather, your system is supported in metabolizing it.
EMDR is both structured and compassionate. It honors your pace, your nervous system, and your readiness.
How EMDR Helps
Rather than only managing symptoms, EMDR works at the root. As unresolved experiences are integrated, many clients notice:
- Decreased emotional reactivity and triggers
- Relief from symptoms of PTSD, anxiety, and depression
- Shifts in long-held negative beliefs (“I’m not enough,” “I’m unsafe,” “It was my fault”)
- Greater emotional regulation and nervous system stability
- Increased self-compassion and confidence
- Improved relationship patterns
EMDR is often more efficient than traditional talk therapy because it engages the brain’s natural adaptive processing system directly. It allows insight and transformation to happen not just cognitively but neurologically and somatically.
Healing doesn’t mean erasing the past. It means the past no longer runs the present.
EMDR Intensive: Focused, Immersive Healing
EMDR Intensives offer a dedicated space for meaningful therapeutic work without the interruptions of weekly start and stop sessions. This format allows us to stay with the process long enough for your nervous system to move through material fully rather than pausing just as momentum builds.
Extended sessions create room for deeper integration, clearer insight, and more sustained nervous system regulation. Instead of spreading healing over many months, intensives provide concentrated time to address core experiences, attachment wounds, and entrenched patterns in a thoughtful, contained way.
Despite the name, intensives are not about pushing or overwhelming your system. They are paced intentionally and grounded in preparation, stabilization, and attunement. We move in collaboration with your nervous system honoring safety, capacity, and readiness at every step.
Each intensive experience includes a customized treatment plan based on your goals, history, and current challenges. Together, we determine the structure and rhythm that best supports your healing.
Two Ways to Structure Your Healing Work
Ongoing Extended Sessions
Meet for longer sessions on a regular basis, maintaining therapeutic continuity while allowing for deeper work each time. This format blends consistency with spaciousness.
Concentrated Multi-Day Intensive
A structured series of sessions scheduled across several consecutive days (typically 3–5). This immersive model is ideal for those wanting to address specific targets, move through a particular life transition, or create significant momentum in a contained timeframe.
EMDR Intensives are designed to help you move beyond coping and toward lasting resolution efficiently, intentionally, and with steady support.
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is an informed trauma therapy that works with the earliest, most instinctive layers of the brain, particularly the brainstem. When we experience threat, shock, or attachment rupture, the brainstem reacts before we consciously think or feel. These rapid survival responses can become imprinted in the nervous system, especially when experiences occur early in life.
DBR gently follows this original orienting response; the subtle, pre-emotional shift that happens in the body just before overwhelm sets in. Many attachment wounds, such as early abandonment or relational betrayal, begin as survival-based responses that were adaptive at the time. Over years, however, those same responses can become deeply embedded patterns of fear, tension, or disconnection.
Rather than reliving trauma or analyzing it cognitively, DBR allows the system to complete an interrupted survival sequence in a slow, contained way. This bottom-up approach supports integration without overwhelming the client or pushing beyond their capacity.
DBR is nuanced work and may not be appropriate for everyone. It is most effective when offered within a strong therapeutic relationship and alongside other somatic, attachment-focused therapies. Because it works beneath thought and narrative, it complements approaches that prioritize nervous system regulation and embodied awareness rather than solely relying on cognitive restructuring or exposure.
The goal is not to revisit the past but to help your nervous system finally settle what it has been holding for years.