Ethically working with trauma means being competent in trauma-informed evidence based modalities.

Trauma is anything that leaves a remembering in the body. Ethics entails doing no harm and operating from a place of responsibility and ownership. As coaches and healers, we are working with the most intimate elements of a client’s consciousness. Though working deep in the subconscious can offer profound results, we have to approach it consciously and informed, with compassion and care.

Trauma requires us to obtain a deep understanding of the human experience and how the body and mind operate.

Your clients are looking to you to help them, and trust you to not do further harm. Without being trauma-informed, not only can we miss powerful opportunities for change and growth, but we can also adversely affect or retraumatize clients. Protective behaviors and mechanisms come as a result of trauma. Pushing, judging, critiquing, or enhancing feelings of guilt and shame can reinforce negative belief systems, as opposed to healing them.

Trauma-informed education is the foundation of feeling empowered and confident, as well as leading an effective practice.

How trauma affects the brain and body

The brain’s primitive purpose is survival. Though you may not be consciously aware of it, a part of your primal brain is constantly taking in information from the environment you are in. When your sensory neurons communicate to your brain that a threat is present, the brain informs the body’s response. All nonessential systems are temporarily turned off including our thinking brain, also known as our prefrontal cortex. All available energy is directed to surviving the threat, an innate response we know as fight or flight. Once the threat passes, the parasympathetic nervous system reactivates and all nonessential systems are restored.

The interference that occurs in our prefrontal cortex means that the memory of the experience can be stored with missing information. A memory is stored with 8 pieces of information: the original sensory information (what we see, touch, smell, taste, hear), the physiological response of our body, as well as related emotions and thoughts of self.

If a memory is not adequately stored, the original emotional reaction can be triggered when we experience a piece of information that feels similar to the original experience. Because the brain senses something related to the original threat, the fight or flight response is catalyzed. When the emotional brain experiences the memory, it communicates with our endocrine and hormonal system, coordinating the chemical experience felt in the body.

Reprocessing memories with bilateral stimulation allows us to utilize the entire brain, and with a direct connection to the emotional and chemical response, invites us to rewrite the experience and change the way the body reacts to triggers in the future.

COLLECTIVE REPROCESSING METHOD

Innovative. Integrative. Informed.

The methods I practice and teach are evidence-based techniques rooted in the latest research on the impact of trauma on the body, mind, and soul. My experience in PTSD and trauma work, as well as a desire to support clients as a whole, led me to create a new protocol, Collective Reprocessing.

Collective Reprocessing is an integrative blend of:

  • Bilateral stimulation

  • Parts work

  • Muscle sensitivity testing

  • Neuroscience

  • Eastern philosophies + energy work

Collective Reprocessing is a method that effectively reprocesses memories from the brain and body, and clears any adverse energetic resonance from an event or trauma. It allows us to get to the root of trauma, and rewrite the neurological response to triggers, for a deep sense of safety, alignment, and peace.

 

How It Works

  • Viewing the unconscious through neuroscience, learn how to access the the memory storage of the unconscious mind and identify past core memories that are contributing to your client’s present day complaints.

  • Learn how to integrate client’s strengths into their nervous system, helping to facilitate state change in the body prior to reprocessing.

  • Learn how to safely activate a specific memory of the unconscious mind for reprocessing by activating the conscious and unconscious mind and engaging all regions of the brain.

  • Learn how reprocess a specific memory of the unconscious mind - shifting the cognitive, emotional and somatic experience of the memory in question.

  • The specific memory of the unconscious mind that has been reprocessed is stored with the new learning and information, provdiing for expansion and release from previously held beliefs.

 

ETHICAL INTEGRATION

Trauma work is a delicate process. When done improperly it does not effectively shift the original memory or change the body’s response, and can retraumatize the individual you are working with. A thorough understanding of how trauma affects the body and mind, as well as proven techniques, is vital to successful reprocessing, clearing, and healing.