About Megan Zuzevich
Trauma informed coach | EMDR therapist | ADVOCATE FOR TRUE HEALING
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, specializing in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and trauma I have gained invaluable insight into the ways the Western mental health model treats trauma, and the deep need for a new, integrative framework and model.
I believe the standard practice of traditional talk therapy and pharmaceuticals to treat our mental health and well-being is unethical. With the research we now have about the somatic and energetic impact of trauma and the emergence of long-term studies that demonstrate the true risks pharmaceuticals provide, I see how the traditionally taught cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and pharmaceuticals limit our true health and healing.
It is time for a new lens, a new approach.
It’s time the collective be given a true opportunity for healing.
With the amount of available mental health treatment, we should be seeing more people living fulfilling lives and less disability.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the case.
As diagnosis and prescriptions increase, overall disability increases too.
1 in 8 individuals world wide has a mental health diagnosis. In the last 30 years alone, the number of children receiving disability because of a mental illness has multiplied over 100%, with approximately 14,000 children receiving SSDI to 1.4 million.
I believe we can reframe our take on trauma and mental health through a new lens that changes the narrative of simply managing the symptoms, and opens us up to the capacity for profound, and lasting change.
Our body is always in a state of moving towards homeostasis or balance, consistently responding to the environment around it. When we begin to understand our physiology and intentional, innate processes, we allow the body to do the only thing it knows how to do.
Heal.
A NEW APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING OUR MENTAL HEALTH
Rather than looking at our symptoms as an expression of disease, illness, and wrongness I view the body’s experiences as intelligent information. A perfect response to the environment one finds themselves in.
When we begin to understand our experience in this capacity, we open ourselves up for profound change.
Inspired by the spontaneous imagery of thousands of EMDR session, I combined various approaches to create an integrative EMDR based approach to working with trauma, Collective Reprocessing. You can learn more about the method, here.
When we do conscious inner-work and commit to the pursuit of self-knowledge we are bound to experience things we are unaware of, particularly past reflexes and patterns of behavior that are coming up for resolution. I take an integrated somatic and neuroscience approach with my clients to understand the root experiences that are coming up for resolution - and any innate knowledge that wants to present itself.
IT’s time the Collective be given opportunities for true healing - to get to the root of trauma, rewrite the neurological response to triggers, and reprocess memories for a deep sense of safety, alignment, and peace.
If you’re ready to experience a new approach to understanding your mental health and embody the tools to connect with your mind, body, and spirit, this is your invitation to sign up for your first Collective Reprocessing class today.