Trauma Therapy Sessions
There is an increasing understanding of the impact that trauma, especially childhood trauma, has on our capacity to lead fulfilling lives, to experience joy and to relate in a healthy way. Yet for many of us, it is less clear how we begin to unravel the way in which our early experiences have shaped our relationship to ourselves and those around us.
I am passionate about guiding my clients towards this gentle unraveling and to providing an expert space for them to begin to feel into these layers and to integrate the impact of these painful past experiences on their capacity for connection to self and others. My trauma therapy sessions are based on Dr. Laurence Heller’s NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM®), which is a profoundly effective and cutting-edge approach to healing and integrating childhood and relational trauma.
This pioneering approach works with the patterns and behaviours that we unconsciously adopt as a way of coping with the painful disruption of secure bonding and attachment with those we depended on for our survival. These early, unconscious patterns of disconnection deeply affect our identity, our emotions, our physiology and our interpersonal relationships.
In my sessions I draw on both my clinical research and training and the insights gained through my own personal journey around healing childhood trauma.
I have a particular interest in the way in which our early experiences impact our capacity to relate intimately both to ourselves and others. I am also committed to highlighting and working with the profound impact that collective traumas such as race and cultural trauma have on our beings and our psyches.
During my sessions I work with what is alive in you in the here and now. The emphasis is on deeply attuning to where you are in the present moment as a doorway into the deeper layers rather than focusing our attention on the past or any narrative you may have of yourself and your past experiences.
Through a gentle process of tracking, observing, and attuning we can gently drop down the layers at a pace that is dictated by you the client. My client’s report feeling safe, held, and empowered as they embark on a journey towards uncovering and connecting to self.
“Maya is helping me to work though a traumatic experience that happened to me 24 years ago, when I was 22. She is helping me revisit, heal and accept the trauma without feeling ashamed of it. I am now starting to be able to accept the trauma as part of who I am today rather than something I need to rid myself of in order to heal.”
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