| FOR ADULTS: If you
are doing good emotional healing work but haven't been able to shift stubborn
patterns, maybe you've been shocked, not just traumatized.
. FOR BABIES: If you are a parent of an infant who has symptoms that may be based in early experiences, we can work with your baby to release to resolve his/her issues. . Introduction .XXXX After 8+ years in California, I returned to Houston and work with clients of all ages (adults as individuals; infants and children with their families). The work I do is guided by the client feelings of the client - both emotional and somatic - in the moment. . My work is a gentle, compassionate and powerful approach to help heal emotional shock and trauma. It was developed by leaders in deep-feeling and regressive therapies in the US, Canada and Australia. This approach helps uncover and heal the roots of our most stubborn patterns and long-lasting problems - whether rooted in events in childhood, infancy, birth or prenatal times. . The Approach . There are many significant ways that shock and trauma differ. A few are explained very briefly here. In general, you need to get closer to, feel and release the energy of an emotional trauma (think breakthrough); you need to get further away from, build defenses against and get perspective from an emotional shock (think path of least resistance). . In addition, the physiological aspects of shock, which get into self-perpetuating cycles, must be interrupted. It is also important that the lessons learned in the one-trial learning of a shock experience (á la classical conditioning) be deconditioned. . While you can do very effective trauma work by yourself, it is virtually impossible to heal your own shock. In fact, a person must be well resourced before doing shock work. Resourced means a person has (and has access to) the support needed to take this inner journey. Resources are anything that is supportive - including inner strength and resilience, loving friends and family, spiritual faith, and stability (or at least lack of chaos) in everyday life. (Click here for an excellent example of resourcing in everyday life. ) In fact, resourcing is a major tool to shift shock. . XXX To shift beliefs that result from trauma, you need to feel the feelings that gave you that lesson, express them, and discover the truth for yourself. To shift beliefs that result from shock, someone else needs to provide the reparenting or reprogramming from outside to learn a new truth. . Working with Adults - Trauma . When a client is dealing with emotional traumas, we will explore them more deeply to reach, express and release whatever feelings (energy) have been stored inside. Much of my work with trauma is directed at integration - taking new insights and information back into real life and creating concrete changes in life today. We give a lot of attention to integrating the shifts made in session into the rest of life, as it is my belief that the primary benefit is the changes wrought in life NOW. . With adults, I use a variety of techniques (depending on the interests of the clients) including breath, movement, guided visualization, art, journaling, intuitive imagery, tantra, mindfulness, cellular consciousness and dream work. Regardless of HOW we get there, the object is always to go inside and tell the deepest truth(s) possible. We invite the help and support of whatever resources the client brings - including the unconscious, loving family/ friends, subpersonalities, guardian angels, the “higher self,” spirit guides, and totem animals. I support and encourage the complete expression of all feelings in ways that are safe for the client, me and our physical surroundings. Only when traumatic feelings are accessed and released can the energy shift. The freeing of stuck energy allows change - often quite easily. . Working with Adults - Shock . When clients are dealing with shock, I work with them to create a situation in the present that supports them in exploring their shock in a peeling-the-onion approach - going back in time from the most recent shock to earlier experiences - and providing appropriate responses for each situation, including: - reparentingBecause people who have been emotionally shocked are deeply wounded around trust, the work proceeds slowly to allow genuine contact at those most wounded levels, which allows true healing to occur. This process is gentle and supportive, and is guided by the readiness of the client. . Helping Babies - Intro . It IS possible to help infants and children heal their emotional shock and trauma; indeed, early intervention allows a child to grow unencumbered by the defenses and patterns that obscure (or destroy) the human potential in people who are not helped (or not helped until they are adults). The techniques must, of course, be mostly non-verbal - but it is very effective to work with babies by making genuine, empathic contact and learning to listen to what they are saying with their body movements, facial expressions, sounds and energy. It is possible to read the energy in someone’s skull to identify locations where there is unresolved trauma or shock. When they are met, received and empathized with, the energy in these locations dissipates - and it dissipates more easily the sooner it is worked with! . Infants are actively involved in expressing, communicating and resolving their traumas (whereas children are less so) so almost any interaction with babies engages their unresolved birth issues. . The developmental tasks of toddlers and children are more centered on playing and learning. With them, we use a dyad structure (usually created by parents) where they are invited to play within the therapeutic structure and given opportunities to engage their whatever painful feelings arise, even briefly. Catharsis is essential but does not need to last a long time to be very effective - especially in children. .  For
more details about working with babies and how parents can support their
babies, click here.
. Groups & Process Workshops . Periodically I offer groups and process workshops that provide individuals an opportunity to focus on their own emotional issues. In fact, it is impossible to work effectively with others' shock unless you have resolved a big portion of your own shock, so these process workshops are necessary for practitioners who attend the training events. . These events can be one-time or on-going (short- or long-term); oriented around group support, facilitating teamwork or deep personal work; open to the public or by invitation only; short (one evening) or long (3-40 days). Some groups have had a special focus, such as an all-day group specifically to support birthworkers in handling the stress of working under adverse conditions. These groups are sometimes on-going, meeting every three months or so (depending on when I return to that city). . Workshops tend to be more intense, offering an opportunity to do deep personal work, working individually with me and using the group as support, and/or pairing up to support one another. For more details about the costs and logistics of setting up a group or process workshop or training in your city, please give me a call. . Appointments and Fees . My sessions are usually 90 minutes long, which allows unhurried exploration of deep issues; we can also set longer appointments (up to several hours) to accommodate special needs. I offer a sliding scale of $80-150 per hour (that's $120-225 for 90 minutes). Intensives (with an accellerated schedule of sessions in a short period of time) can be arranged. . If you’d like to know more, please get in touch. ..
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