Trauma Recovery
and PTSD
You’ve Been Handling This on Your Own for a While
The symptoms are plain enough: racing thoughts, sleep that won’t come or won’t stay, headaches, migraines, panic that arrives without warning.
Some of it you’ve handled with medication you’d rather not stay on.
Something isn’t working, and you’re smart enough to know it.
Nearly every path forward you’ve looked at starts with telling the whole thing to somebody.
Your Story Stays Yours
Neurofeedback gives your brain real-time information about its own electrical activity, so it learns to run more efficiently without anything being put in or done to you from the outside.
It doesn’t require you to narrate all the painful experiences in your life.
Talking through those experiences is welcome here, and for plenty of people it becomes part of the work.
What decides whether any of that helps is the order it happens in.
Your Nervous System Gets Calm First
Neurofeedback comes first, training your brain toward a steadier rhythm while you sit in a chair, asking nothing of your memory.
A session is plainer than it sounds: sensors read the electrical activity your brain is already producing, and a screen in front of you responds to what they find.
Heart rate variability training sits alongside it, teaching your heart and nervous system to flex so that you can move between alert and calm on demand rather than staying in overdrive.
Breathing is how you do that, which means you walk out with something that keeps working when I’m not in the room.
Once You’re Steady, the Thinking Work Lands
Then CBT goes after the thoughts driving the worst of it, and DBT-informed skills give you ways to get through a hard moment without making it worse.
Along the way, I’ll keep asking what your body is telling you, because a settled nervous system is what lets you notice it.
My certification is in Othmer Method Neurofeedback, and I came to it after six years of practicing traditional therapy.
So I know how much further the same conversations go once the physiology is handled.
Take Your Day Back from the Headaches and the Dread
Sleep that comes when you lie down, stays through the night, and actually restores you.
A day you move through without pain, without the headaches, without the migraines.
Stress that shows up and gets handled, instead of crumpling you into anxiety or weighing you down with dread.
Your life back at full size, after so long with this taking up most of the room.
Start with 20 Minutes and See What You Think
Reach out today and set up a free 15-minute consultation.
You decide what gets said and how much of it, on that call and in every one after.
I’ll tell you what neurofeedback involves, whether this approach fits what you’re dealing with, and what I’d want to look at first.
Call me today at (616) 773-8303.
There’s a Way Forward, and You Don’t Have to Guess at It
Now is the time to take back your life.
Whether it’s your child, your teenager, or you, the first step is a simple conversation about what’s happening and whether this work fits.
Reach out today, and let’s help your brain start working for you.
Free 15-minute consultation. In-person in Kentwood, Michigan.