Treating Trauma

What is trauma? The symptoms are anxiety, suddenly going numb or feeling like you shut down or freeze for no reason, repeated nightmares, getting a far-away look in the eyes, disconnecting from sensation in the body. Shocking physical or emotional events, like accidents and surgery may overwhelm the nervous system, so that in order to self-protect some of the energy gets stored in either outside the body or in specific body parts for later processing. That is why cranio can be especially effective for accessing and integrating long-forgotten difficult events that keep on surfacing as inexplicable symptoms.

Treating trauma requires extreme care, a lot of awareness and skill, and patience. The good news is that in Mia’s experience everything can be healed. Mia is highly sensitive and is particularly effective with frightened and traumatized adults and children.

She works with an extremely high degree of sensitivity which makes it possible to “hear” different aspects of the nervous system, brain and neural patterns, so that trauma stored in the body as emotional energy can be safely discharged. In Somatic Experiencing this is referred to as the trauma cycle – fear, anger, pain and tingling sensations in the hand and feet follow each other and allow the body to integrate unprocessed energy and experiences.

Over time, with precise and present accompaniment, the brain can learn new neural connections to regulate itself and levels of anxiety/panic/distress can decrease drastically or disappear altogether. Making new neural pathways in the brain occurs through the empathetic connection and exchange in the relationship between the practitioner and client. Its as if the brain of one hears the brain of the other and downloads information that enables new growth. This happens at the level of “being with” another at a feeling level which is why physical contact is not strictly necessary. Current developments in neuroscience are providing empirical evidence of brain functioning which support the way craniosacral practitioners work with the brain and the nervous system to release trauma and create health.