Trauma
At Brain Harmony, we have award winning programs to treat complex trauma in both children and adults including physical, emotional, medical, chemical, and sexual trauma. Frequently trauma is often accompanied by mood changes, depression, substance abuse, or one or more other anxiety disorders.
When you are suffering, it is valid, you are important but most importantly, you can break the trauma cycle.
Because the causes and symptoms of trauma are so unique to every person, Brain Harmony offers treatment for trauma resolution in a unique way, working with the neuroplasticity of the brain, the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), and specializing it to each individual.
Ours is very different than traditional methods like talk therapy, cognitive therapy, or medications, as those ultimately don’t change the response of the brain and nervous system. Additionally, medication can also cause varying side effects that sometimes become their own issues, sometimes even exacerbating the pain, without addressing the root causes.
Events that may lead to trauma include, but are not limited to: war, combat, crime, violent personal assaults, natural or human-caused disasters, and other forms of abuse - emotional, verbal, physical or otherwise. Trauma can also be caused by high-stress events like death of a loved one, or a horrible car accident. For first responders and our military, their jobs expose them to chronic trauma by caregiving for others during their trauma. Unfortunately, exposure to events like these is common, and it’s very natural to feel the effects of it long afterward. (*)
People who experience consistent, frightening memories of the event(s), triggers from non-related events that lead back to the event itself, sleep issues, isolation, or may be easily startled can be considered to have PTSD. And in its most severe forms, PTSD can significantly impair a person's ability to simply function: at work, at home, and socially.
Warning Signs of Unresolved Trauma:
Negative thoughts and feelings, including distorted beliefs about oneself or others
Ongoing fear, guilt, shame, or other negative feelings and association
Detachment from others
Angry outbursts, recklessness, self-destructiveness
Difficulty concentrating or sleeping
Social Anxiety
Feeling Stuck in Fight or Flight, Freeze or Fawn
Strong Startle Response
Cognitive Changes like poor memory and learning
Inability to care for self or others
Withdrawal, isolation
Poor Intimacy
Failure to Thrive
Intrusive thoughts, involuntary memories
Not only is there HOPE for healing unresolved trauma, we TREAT the underlying neural structures of the human body and brain to rewire out of the disabling states of trauma so you can access optimal health and vitality.
Trauma Therapy
Our proprietary 5-Step Plan of Care is based on proven protocols, therapeutic activities, with over 20 years and 250,000+ hours of combined clinical practice.
Most importantly, our 5-Step Plan of Care is completely tailored to your unique challenges, needs, and goals.
So you can get the personalized care you (or your child) needs to achieve the outcomes you need.
SUCCESS STORIES
Complex Trauma and Social Anxiety
Growing up with complex trauma, Kirk had extreme difficulties with communication, anxiety, and managing everyday tasks. After researching Polyvagal theory and discovering Brain Harmony’s protocols, Kirk was excited about the prospect of a program that has helped those who were non verbal their whole life begin to speak. He began the Safe and Sound Protocol and soon realized it would allow him to unlock the life he had always imagined for himself.
“Growing up with complex trauma is just beyond any ability to communicate, and especially in the past few months, I’m comfortable enough with myself that I don’t mind another person seeing whatever happens to come up in the course of a conversation, and that would have almost been science fiction to me a couple of years ago.”
PTSD, TBI, Stress Sleep, Emotional Dysregulation
Richard is a Veteran who came to us feeling "Crippling anxiety, extremely short fuse, almost ADHD-like symptoms of difficulty focusing. I would be extremely short-fused and the smallest things would set me off in conversation. I would fly off the handle and shut down. That alone would lead to sleepless nights or an increase in my side effects from PTSD and constant worry."
After working with us, Richard shared, "I started to notice a change in how I approach my thought patterns. Where previously things would seem just overwhelming on even the most minute scale, they were fitting together like a better puzzle. And I was able to take a step back and really assess the situation in a better light…it is a very dynamic process and it’s working."
Trauma Stemming from Childhood
Charles had been struggling with complex trauma from his childhood, which dictated much of his human experience, until he experienced vagal regulating aspects of our program. Charles reports:
"The waves come through, but Ilet them pass by.
I am neither in a hyper-state or in collapse, which was my old state of existence.
I have learned better practices and they are sticking.
I am more able to follow through with my meditation.
I'm realizing that stuff | thought was me is not me, but more like a habituated response. It is bringing things up in my counseling sessions which are now more productive.
As my body resets, I can clear things from my system.
The trauma construct is dislodging. I am a witness to it."
Car Accident Cognitive Function Trauma
Kim is a 45 year old woman who was in a serious car wreck that sent her to the emergency room the night of the accident. "My brain did a 180 turn. Its like my brain and my personality seized up." Kim was no longer able to attend church, family gatherings or attend her children's events at school.
"Before Brain Harmony, very few people were taking me seriously. And so, I came up out of a hit of feeling like I was alone and I'm just sinking and drowning and drowning because there's something going on in my mind, something's going on in my vision, something's going on in my hearing, something's going on in my coordination - something's going on in all of these cognitive functions that are not right.
And Brain Harmony restored that and gave me my life back!"
Concussion Trauma
Jen is a mother of 2 kids, with a concussion incurred in 2019, when she slipped on ice.
She couldn't even talk on the phone when we first started our therapy because the sound ofvoices coming through the receiver was so overwhelming, neurologically. She also had stopped leaving her house and felt terrible that she wasn't able to take her kids to practices or out for fun activities.
Once she started working with us and the listening protocols we designed specifically for her, she reported on her therapy call to us the other day to say "My neurologist is amazed!" Not only can she now drive her kids to the playground, but she re-framed a doorway in her home, requiring bending over, reaching, planning, and balance! She is so excited to "have her life back."
TBI Trauma
“I was in a car accident resulting in a TBI. I had trouble with short term memory, difficulty coming up with words, inability to focus and my balance was off for over a year.
I struggled immensely until I tried Brain Harmony's home program. Even my chiropractor could not believe the improvements.
Thank you Brain Harmony!"
Dr. Lana Garner, Doctor of Oriental Medicine and Co-founder, Docs Outside The Box.