Everyone is most likely to encounter trauma/s in life despite the scales of the event. It can be bullying from school or workplace, physical or emotional insult, war, natural disasters, and the list goes on. Although human beings are an extremely resilient species, all traumas do leave traces in us, they affect our minds, emotions, biology, and even immune systems. Trauma compromises the brain areas that communicate the physical, embodied feeling of being alive. This explains why traumatised individuals become hypervigilant to any perceived threat at the expense of spontaneously engaging in their day-to-day lives. In other words, traumatised individuals are trapped in the trauma scenario, they behave like the trauma is still present, and are stuck in the fight or flight mode even after the trauma has long gone. This is because the part of our brain that is devoted to ensuring our survival does not easily let it go. The posttraumatic reactions feel incomprehensible, overwhelming, and out of control. Survivors of trauma often begin to fear that they are damaged to the core and beyond redemption.

In my practice, we’ll face and treat your trauma together. This includes understanding your trauma and processing the memory of trauma through talking therapy; guiding the body and mind to reconnect with the Present through mindfulness practices, and grounding your being through physical exercises and relationship building.