Integrative Trauma Therapy

Somatic Experiencing • EMDR Therapy • Internal Family Systems

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

What is Integrative Trauma Therapy?

I believe that everyone has an innate capacity to heal from trauma, and that therapy should aim to support this natural healing process. Healing from trauma is deeply personal journey, an integrated trauma treatment approach involves combining various trauma centered therapeutic methods to create a personalized and holistic treatment plan. This method recognizes that trauma affects individuals differently and that a single treatment modality may not be sufficient. At Restoring Clarity, trauma is not seen as a disorder but as an injury to the body and mind, requiring compassionate care rather than fixing. This perspective shifts the focus to healing the injury through integrative methods that promotes individualized trauma treatment and engages the body and mind as one interconnected system.

Understanding Trauma Beyond the Past

Trauma is more than a story from the past; it is a present experience felt through profoundly distressing physical sensations and emotions long after the traumatic events are over. My approach focuses on repairing these injuries by prioritizing introspection, establishing a sense of safety, and regulating physiological arousal, all of which are essential steps towards recovery.

A Relational, Experiential And Embodied Approach

Internal Family Systems Therapy

• Utilizing methods like Internal Family Systems (IFS), individuals gain deeper insights into their inner world, understand their behaviors and reactions, and are able to identify and understand their underlying patterns. This approach allows clients to reconnect with their emotions and bodies, and innate wisdom while enhancing their overall well-being and creating new possibilities and perspectives that promote self-trust and regulation. IFS emphasizes the connection between mind and body, encouraging clients to tune into their physical sensations and emotions, enhancing the experiential quality of the therapy and grounding the work in the present moment.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR):

• EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to process and integrate traumatic memories through an eight-phase process: history taking, preparation, assessment, desensitization, installation, body scan, closure, and reevaluation. EMDR helps reprocess traumatic memories and integrate them into your psyche, promoting healing and relief from distressing symptoms.

Somatic Therapies:

• Somatic Experiencing Therapy addresses the physical manifestations of trauma through body-based techniques. Trauma can cause disconnection from bodily sensations as a way to cope with overwhelming stress. Somatic therapies help individuals reconnect with their bodies, allowing them to sense and understand their physical responses to trauma. Trauma can trap energy in the body, which can lead to physical and psychological symptoms. Somatic therapy techniques help to release this trapped energy, often through small, controlled movements or guided exercises.

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy:

• Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy: PTSD often involves intense emotional numbing and avoidance of trauma-related thoughts and feelings. Ketamine can help break through these barriers by reducing the brain’s default mode network (DMN) activity, which is associated with self-referential thinking and rumination. This reduction in DMN activity allows patients to access and process deeply buried emotions and memories, facilitating a more comprehensive and healing therapeutic experience.

Mindfulness and Relaxation Techniques:

To enhance emotional regulation and stress management to calm the body and the mind.

The Benefits of Trauma Centered Therapy

Healing Relationship: In connection with safety, collaboration, choice, and trust we can nurture new possibilities for healing. The therapeutic relationship provides a compassionate connection, essential for re-wiring early attachment wounds and relational trauma.

Reconnection with Self: You will be encouraged in our work together to slow down and reconnect with your emotions and body, in an effort to assist you with creating meaningful change and to provide you with opportunities to reawaken your sense of aliveness.

Empowerment through Embodiment: Embodiment practices will help you awaken your valuable qualities with authenticity, enhancing your self-compassion and resilience.

Strengthening Positive Neural Networks: We focus on reinforcing neural networks associated with pleasant sensations, emotions, and cognitions, supporting your journey towards feeling strong and empowered.

Who I Work With

My practice is dedicated to adults experiencing traumatic stress and trauma related symptoms of anxiety, grief, addiction, chronic shame, disconnection, and depression. Trauma can stem from a variety of sources, including physical abuse, emotional neglect, breaches of trust and safety within an early primary caregiving relationship, sudden loss, and medical procedures. Traumatic experiences can occur during key developmental stages, in adult relationships, and in any toxic and discriminatory environment.

Does This Sound Familiar?

You want to feel supported, safe, and connected but instead you feel:

• Chronically overwhelmed and find it difficult to relax or feel safe.
• You experience self-doubt, have a strong internal critic and struggle with feelings of inadequacy.
• You have difficulty letting go and trusting others.
• You feel reluctant to express your emotions and ask for what you need and feel guilty when you do.
• You struggle with feelings of shame, guilt, or worthlessness. Sometimes you may even feel unloveable.
• You have difficulty saying no and setting boundaries. You feel overly responsible for the well-being of others and neglect personal needs to care for others.
• You may fear being alone and have strong reactions to perceived rejection.
• You may find it hard to leave toxic relationships.
• You have a feeling that you are different from others. Believe that you don’t fit in or belong.
• You have emotional distress such as intense feelings of sadness, depression, emotional numbness, anxiety or panic attacks and Difficulty managing and expressing emotions.
• You struggle with perfectionism and an intense fear of failure or rejection.

Your Journey to Recovery Starts Now

You deserve compassionate trauma focused care. I understand the pain of feeling defined by traumatic experiences and I am committed to helping you overcome these challenges.Healing from trauma is possible, and you don’t have to do it alone. With warmth, compassion, and encouragement I am here to guide you every step of the way. Discover the transformative power of integrative trauma therapy and unlock your path to healing.