Specialties Trauma Therapy
Someone asks you for something you don’t have room for. And you hear yourself agreeing to it, before you’ve finished thinking. Then the evening goes to running it back, working out why no felt like a word you weren’t allowed to use.
An image you didn’t ask for lands in the middle of your afternoon. A door shuts too hard and you’re out of your skin.
Why did that bother you so much when it wasn’t that big of a deal? Why is a simple decision suddenly hard to make?
When things happen that remind you of the original event, these stored emotions can be “triggered” and come roaring back into your experience.
Sometimes, the stored emotions may come back as a feeling or a body sensation with no conscious memory attached to it.
Vulnerability feels like handing someone a weapon. You keep the peace, apologize first, treat other people’s disappointment as an emergency.
Then something forces the issue: a panic attack, a relationship gone quiet.
Trauma is when the emotional intensity of an experience runs past what you can cope with in the moment. So your mind stores the unprocessed feeling out of conscious reach. That’s what let you keep functioning.
Stored emotion doesn’t dissolve on its own. It comes back at full present-tense force whenever something today brushes against it. Sometimes it arrives as a body sensation with no memory attached.
Understanding where it came from rarely resolves it. So I’ll ask you to go toward the feeling instead of describing your way around it.
In person, I work with Emotional Transformation Therapy. There are four tools inside it.
The Spectral Resonance Technique, which I call the chart. Peripheral Eye Stimulation, the goggles. Multi-Dimensional Eye Movement, the color wands. And the ETT Light Device, which produces sixteen million shades of color.
Sometimes viewing the right color in the right eye position is like putting the key in the lock. If the emotion climbs higher than you want, I switch to another and settle it down.
Four tools keep your session moving at a pace that stays comfortable.
Online, I work with Brainspotting. We start with a target.
Anger, dread, a fear of flying, a performance block in your sport, a tightness in your chest you stopped mentioning. We talk about when it started.
I use a pointer to find your brainspot, the place in your visual field where you reach it. From there we sit quietly and let your brain do the work. There’s far less talking than in any therapy hour you’ve had.
You don’t have to talk me through the whole story for this to work.
The intensity stays regulated as we go. Getting flooded is highly unlikely. What I watch happen: the charge comes down and new thoughts arrive.
ETT and Brainspotting are both effective. ETT moves a little faster. It needs to happen in the room.
There’s a pause now, where the automatic yes used to be. You say you’ll think about it. You sleep.
The interests pushed off your calendar come back. Your history stops doing the introductions.
Calm and pleasure stop arriving with guilt attached. Time with the people you love is easy in a way it hasn’t been. You want to be in the room.
A free 15-minute phone consultation is where this starts. Tell me what you want different. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.
Call me today at (910) 502-3339.
You’ve waited long enough for the feeling to catch up to the understanding.
Email me and we’ll find a time to connect by phone for a free 15-minute consultation. You’ll get to know me a little, and we can both tell whether we’re a good fit for this work.
Emotional Transformation Therapy for teens 14+ and adults. Raleigh, North Carolina, and online across the state.
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