Trauma

Like the body following a serious accident, the mind too can restore itself after traumatic life events.

The Body's Intelligence

"A revolution was taking place in what has since been called the Decade of the Brain (1990s), which permanently altered the way clinicians approach and heal post-traumatic stress. To put it plainly, we didn’t used to be able to help people with post-traumatic stress, at least not in any consistent way. Now we can. We learned we’ve been going about it all wrong—and how to do it right."

"Thanks to a confluence of a few revolutionary arenas of investigation and an unprecedented amount of interdisciplinary collaboration between them. For this we must thank the genius and dedication of quadruple-threat investigators who can conceptualize, practice, research, and write: Bessel van der Kolk, Judith Herman, Robert Scaer, Edna Foa, Rachel Yehuda, Peter Levine, and Francine Shapiro come to mind, to name just a few."

- Belleruth Naparstek, Invisible Heroes, Random House Publishing Group.

Sensorimotor Therapy

"The body’s intelligence is largely an untapped resource in psychotherapy. Few educational programs in clinical psychology or counseling emphasize how to draw on the wisdom of the body to support therapeutic change . . . .To omit the body as a target of therapeutic action is, to my way of thinking, an unfortunate oversight that deprives clients of a much-needed avenue of self-knowledge and change." - Pat Ogden, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment.