You may have a lot of knowledge about your problems, especially if you’ve been in talk therapy. In talk therapy, you communicate with your therapist with words via your left brain.
But your trauma is actually living in your right brain in the form of images with sensation. (We call that implicit memory). These images have great power and can produce fear and shock. If you have complex trauma, deep emotional injury resides in your right brain. That influences your response, your behavior, your thoughts (cognition/perspective/meaning), your relationship…. your life itself.
My therapy, Somatic Psychotherapy, is different from typical psychotherapy (talk therapy).
I approach the right brain more than the left brain.
Of course, words emanating from the left brain also have great power. Sometimes we harness this power as a defense mechanism to avoid our problems and trauma. We need to move beyond the left-brain world. We need to reach out to the right brain to heal our trauma.
Also, as long as the trauma activates your amygdala, your prefrontal cortex, which regulates calm thought and reason, will remain diminished. You should first calm the activated amygdala for your left brain to function normally.
We need to go beyond our left-brain world. We need to reach out to the right brain to heal our trauma.
Then we integrate the left and right brain by connecting the words with the awareness and A-ha moments.
I approach your nervous system to support your self-regulation so you would experience more space and calm inside of yourself.
How?
In my “right brain approach,” I employ various forms of somatic trauma psychotherapy that engage with your body, exteroception(sensing the outside; sight, sound, smell, touch, taste), interoception (sensing the inside; headaches, hunger ), proprioception (the unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body), imagination, breathing, voice, eye position, tsubo (spot) via various trauma psychotherapy.
That might be able to have a new experience for you.
I am here to support you!
