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Unfortunately, these days an adult emerging from childhood without trauma seems to be an anomaly. Childhood and adult trauma can range from moving to a new school, divorce, sexual abuse, or complex relationship trauma due to emotional neglect of a primary caregiver. When adults with unresolved childhood traumas experience a new trauma (like emotionally abusive relationships, loss, grief, or sexual assaults), their body begins to tell them that enough is enough and symptoms that present in panic attacks, depression, or depressive episodes can occur. Each of the instances mentioned above wreak havoc on our nervous system. When your nervous system has been in survival status of fight fight freeze of fawn for extended periods of time, your body will let you know in a variety of ways. Chronic illness, chronic pain, emotional disregulation, and even more severe body symptoms. Clients suffering from a trauma background demand a protocol with an integrative approach. I am trained in using EMDR from an attachment approach, with an understanding of how the nervous system is impacted through trauma.

 EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is an integrative method that combines attachment research, neuroscience, and sensory methods that essentially work with the goal to heal and retrain the brain’s processing of the initial trauma. From an attachment lens and childhood emotional neglect treatment plan, a therapist works with the client by first determining attachments and disassociations imprinted from early childhood mistreatments or perceptions of mistreatments. As a result, the patient has been unable to develop healthy thriving attachment strategies and instead had to manage feelings of shame, fear, sadness, and anger by dissociation, withdrawal or acting out. This survival strategy carries them into adulthood, where then the adult finds self in my office.