BlissBrain Sessions
Each session is intuitively designed to meet you or your child exactly where you are at in that moment. As I work, I explain in detail what I'm discovering in your body or with your child so you can better understand the therapy process. Often clients say "nobody ever explained my body to me the way you do." I have in-office posters detailing the internal fascial designs of the craniosacral system and brain. As a session progresses I prompt you to engage your conscious awareness to changes in your body. This process brings us into the present moment and encourages the brain to reorganize around the new sensations. These conscious awareness moments blend with times of stillness and silence where your body drops into deep rest, generating healing from inside. My hands may stay in one place for several minutes, a slower pace than some other bodywork formats such as chiropractic or massage. In our follow-up session, many report "I don't know what you did but I feel completely different."
This slow, gentle therapy changes brain waves to promote deep relaxation and move the body past resistance and physical, emotional holding patterns. Brain balancing changes neural pathways, releasing holding in the limbic system , the deep emotional brain, and creating greater connections with the pre-frontal cortex. The results are increased positivity and psychological flexibility beyond our ingrained survival habits. What happens with all that freed-up energy? Well, we become more creative, returning to piano playing, finally designing that hot-tub and gazebo, or just laughing more when anxiety tries to steal your peace of mind.
Clients typically notice diminished symptoms, especially with children, immediately after the first session. Usually after 4 sessions there is an even greater quantum change but I encourage a minimum of 6 to 8 sessions to fully amplify and integrate the releases and create new, stronger neurological pathways.. Those with complex histories of head injuries or childhood relational trauma choose to work with me over a year or even longer.
Trauma healing, whether for you or your children, is a forest best navigated with a professional, experienced guide who can translate the landscape as you walk. The best path blends intricate anatomy knowledge of the body, neuroscience, psychology and energy fields balancing. Whether you're sorting through a head injury, birth trauma, childhood trauma or ongoing traumatic stress from parenting or midlife changes there are answers.
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Pregnancy
Pre-conception attachment, fertility challenges, healing previous birth trauma from baby number one, maybe even a VBAC; pelvic balancing for birthing, womb positioning, making space for baby; easing mom's back, hip, shoulder and neck pain; deepening pre-natal bonding and attachment, birthing readiness for both mom and partner..
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Newborns
mom and baby post-partum energy balancing; easing anxiety, post-partum depression or grief; breastfeeding and latch challenges, reflux, gas, colic; fussy or tense baby, sleep problems; unwinding birth trauma interventions and journey to reweave bonding and attachment with parents; epidural headaches, pelvic floor pain, cesarean scar, allover body aches and exhaustion for mom.
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Infants
Tummy time tips and tricks for optimal spinal alignment and motor development; misaligned spine from too much time in car carrier, use of baby walkers or poor tummy time history; developmental delays in rolling, crawling, sitting, walking, hip dysplasia; torticollis, plagiocephaly, cranial band (helmet) support; tummy troubles like reflux, colic, gas; birth trauma, premature infants, NICU recovery; Sleep cycles, crying inconsolably and home environment adjustments with caregiver bonding and attachment; infant mental health, maternal anxiety.
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Toddlers
Infant and toddler mental health is a growing field in somatic psychology; learning to understand a child's low frustration levels and emotional regulation difficulties and how to soothe the nervous system. They do not "grow out" of these issues but learn to adapt and cope in ways that can manifest as anxiety and social struggles later on in school years. Preschool years are still a potent time to address and resolve birth trauma or early medical challenges and the imprint on a growing toddler's nervous system. Tumbles and falls; torticollis, tight shoulders, swayback, ear infections; sleep problems. Sessions are a combination of toddler moving and lying still important to adress. The goal is increased self-regulation and a calmer nervous system.
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Women's Health
Neck and shoulder pain from computer use or all those years of mothering causing "mom arm syndrome" and rounded shoulders tightening your chest, leaving your heart feeling unsupported; back and hip pain leftover from pregnancy, labor and delivery years ago; TMJ from holding it all together physically and emotionally for yourself and everyone else in the family; midlife relational trauma from a partner that you realize is (or was) woefully dismissive leaving you feeling like a lonely widow while still sharing a bed; an aging and declining parent triggering your complex trauma from childhood and their toxic relationship habits; parenting children, teens, young adults that has worn your patience and your body down. Perimenopause then menopause leaving your brain scrambled and pelvic floor, uterus, ovaries needing care. Balancing your body and brain, your hormones, and your relationships so you can blossom in midlife from your 40's-60's. Developing resilience through greater psychological and neurological flexibility. Retraining your brain for longevity.
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Mens' Health
Men tend to have a stronger and longer history of concussions and head injuries, MTBI (mild traumatic brain injury) or even TBI (traumatic brain injury) resulting in "brainlash," tight cranial bones and muscles, contribute to curtailed activity of the pre-frontal cortex for emotional regulation. Only in the last 20 years has sports begun to acknowledge the devastating effects of concussions and especially CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) from repeated hits. Men in their 40's-70's experienced a culture of prompts like "get back in there," "just brush it off, you'll be fine," "you just had your bell rung, that's all," and similar dismissals. Along with diminishing the seriousness of their physical injuries, our culture has encouraged men to dismiss and suppress their emotions leading to a low-level, quiet rage and dissociative behavior in relationships, especially their relationship with themselves. Patience and willingness to trust are keys to a different path forward in the healing process; traits that can be harder for men to embrace. Usually men are motivated to change because of an important relationship like a spouse or a child; good reasons to seek healing for longevity. Untreated head injuries and anxiety are two medically-acknowledged risk factors for developing dementia. .
