RELATIONAL EMBODIMENT SOMATIC THERAPY SESSIONS
for neurosensitives, energy healers, coaches, and practitioners.
OVERWHELMED?
EMOTIONAL overwhelm: You can't regulate your emotions
CHANGE overwhelm: You can’t cope with change
DECISION overwhelm: You can’t prioritize, take in information, or think straight
If you're the kind of person who can't settle until everything is organised, you probably already know that your methods of managing overwhelm are getting thin.
…SO WHAT WORKS?
After literally YEARS of offering nervous system work, I've found what gets the best results.
Brainspotting Intensives deliver the best outcomes for most people.
10 hours of highly-targeted somatic therapy, four sessions, spread over 3 days, in the same week.
These 1:1 Brainspotting Intensives incorporate the most effective somatic techniques in my therapist toolkit and are the fastest pathway to heal trauma I know.
Symptoms of overwhelm:
You’re spinning your wheels trying to finish all the things (you can’t deactivate your nervous system when you’re spinning your wheels).
You focus on the wrong things, get upset about unimportant things, and forget the special things... (too much fight or flight energy is unsustainable for your physical health and will also affect your mental focus and emotional equilibrium).
You’re stuck in fight, flight or freeze (you can't process the effects of stress, trauma or overwhelm when you're stuck).
Whenever you extend yourself or try something new, you bump up against nervous system capacity issues (you can’t address trauma symptoms until you increase your nervous system capacity).
Survival mode is your daily reality (you can't be the best version of yourself).
IMAGINE IF…
Your nervous system was regulated, calm, and connected in any situation.
Survival states no longer dictated your responses so you could be more present to your life and were able to change it.
You have banished self doubt and can trust your internal compass to guide you all the time.
YOU CAN
The solution is rewiring your nervous system.
OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS
In the first session, we uncover your biggest struggles and identify the core messages you tell yourself about yourself, the world, and how you engage with it.
In the second session, we explore UNDERNEATH the core beliefs you've already identified through working on your mindset and go even deeper.
Then in the third session, we use Brainspotting to dissolve your encapsulated trauma so your nervous system and brain can deactivate and process the stress in your system.
And finally, in the fourth session, we re-visit the trauma healing work of the previous session, shore up any wonky bits (that’s not a technical term), and then support you to integrate the work you have done over the past few days.
Whether it’s your first time exploring the terrain of your bodily sensations, or you’re an experienced somatic traveller, Brainspotting Intensives introduce you to working deeper than somatics and embodiment - at the level of your brain and your nervous system.
Intensives are held monthly, and there are just four dates remaining in 2024 - July, August, October and November.
Click the button above for available dates and cost.
In these ‘Intensives’, Brainspotting is the main approach taken, but other somatic trauma therapies are also incorporated:
Somatic Experiencing
Trauma Touchwork
Neural Integration Exercises
(Neural integration helps integrate, embody and process trauma in the body).
If you’d prefer to discuss your options in person, book a FREE co-regulation call and we can work it out together.
RAQUEL’S FUSION OF Modalities
Raquel draws upon a range of modalities she has studied to inform her unique approach to trauma healing and nervous system expansion.
Brainspotting
Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core sources of emotional pain, trauma and distress. It can relieve body pain associated with unintegrated and dissociated memories from your distant or recent past.
Unlike talk therapy, Brainspotting accesses the deep brain structures where memories are held but cannot be accessed through thinking or remembering. It is deep, direct and powerful, yet also focused and containing.
Brainspotting uses activated eye positions designated as brainspots. Located through either one or both eyes, brainspots are observed by focusing on the client’s inner awareness of their body sensations or by tracking and observing the client’s outer reflexive responses (e.g., blink, eye twitches or wobbles, pupil dilation, breath changes and subtle body behaviour shifts).
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing® is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and stress. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine, resulting from his studies in psychology, human physiology, animal behaviour, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics.
SE facilitates the organic release of traumatic shock and re-organisation without forcing, pushing or efforting. It is one of only a few trauma therapies which takes into account the client's threshold so as not to cause re-traumatisation or overwhelm.
SE addresses the root cause of stress and trauma by facilitating the completion of self-protective responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body. Clients are gently guided to develop tolerance for difficult bodily sensations, suppressed emotions and contracted nervous system states.
Somatic Touchwork
Somatic touchwork is a gentle, non-invasive, fully-clothed style of touch therapy to release frozen and stuck states held in the body.
Everyone’s experience is different, and it’s difficult to put into words, because 'touch' lights up the the place in the brain where there are no words.
This way of working is the most profound technique I have ever encountered. It is unbelievably sacred and deep. Touchwork supports the release of pre-verbal experiences you may not have any words for (or memory of), but feel as stuck or contracted states in your body.
Both client and practitioner work together noticing sensations in organs, joints, fluids and bones, gradually creating more opening and expansion in the nervous system through the power of energy, attention, intention and touch.
Of all the tools in my trauma toolkit, why do I recommend Brainspotting?
Measurable Change
More connected to your body and your heart's wisdom
Embody your soul's gifts
Able to share your gifts and wisdom with the world without fear
Reclaim your inner voice and express your truth
Expanded intuitive and psychic abilities through deep connection with your nervous system (the physical seat of your intuition)
Re-discover your child-like sense of awe in your everyday existence and ordinary reality
Release shame, guilt, self-sabotaging and self-sacrificing behaviours
Eliminate burnout, stress and exhaustion
Address stubborn health issues
Nourish your body and soul through cultivating self-trust - more powerful than self-love
Let go perfectionism without dropping your standards
Release anxiety
Stop mind-chatter and neutralise negative and critical thoughts
Honour and create life-affirming boundaries that allow you to feel safe
Embody self-compassion
Stop unnecessary over-giving and over-helping
Connected to your values and affirm your soul purpose
Increased tolerance for more exposure and visibility
Cultivate meaningful relationships
benefits
Heal from the effects of physically, emotionally, and spiritually traumatic events
Address childhood and developmental traumas (including in utero and preverbal traumas)
Re-connect and re-build intimacy
Create a foundation of inner safety and security
Re-shape your neural pathways to experience greater resilience and life satisfaction
Bounce back from ‘burnout’ and the cumulative daily traumas of life
Live fully in your values and integrity and contribute more authentically in the world