Clearing Trauma

with Beth Dennison

with Beth Dennison

Clearing Trauma

Clearing Trauma

Beth Dennison

M.Ed., L.M.T., S.E.P.

Mission

Healing from trauma is an interactive process.

My mission is to help people weave relationships that heal

into the fabric of our family and community lives.

2)  Educational Graphics - 

The 3-in-1 Map of the Autonomic Nervous System  lays out 3 very different threat responses and 3 relaxed responses. These form the neurological basis for our emotional states, our perceptual biases, and much of our motivation.

This model makes it quick and easy to notice and strategize about autonomic states:

-states that we get stuck in like freeze, dissociation, anxiety, anger, compulsive

competition, greed, or compulsive niceness, and-states that we can not get to, like deep rest or clear boundary setting or comfort with intimate touch.

This simplified model of the ANS is based on complex new discoveries in neuroscience. It is easy to learn and use.  My goal is to get this information out quickly, via graphics to people with little or no training in neuroscience, who need it.

3)  Presentations and Workshops - 

The goal here is to transmit an embodied capacity for emotional sturdiness to professionals, community members, friends and families of trauma survivors, and parents of young children. We all carry a trauma load. We all benefit by knowing better how to build relationships where we can heal without retraumatization and without destabilizing our communication partners.

I use interactive experiential exercises to build embodied recognition of how we heal and regulate each other and ourselves.

Our bodies know how to heal. Fear and tears and anger may are catching. But so are yawning and enthusiasm and laughter. 

Let’s get good at supporting this cooperative, interactive, vital process in each other.

Strategy

I work on three fronts to build relationships that heal.

1)  Individual Therapy Sessions - 

We learn and practice how to create a refined sense of cooperation: person to person and mind with body. Together we find what works so that the client’s nervous system can re-regulate itself and clear the residue of trauma. We see no resistance here, only the nervous system showing us what threatens or relaxes it.

This process of interactive regulation in therapy informs other relationships in people’s lives.

Elizabeth Dennison M.Ed., L.M.T, S.E.P.       Building Relationships that Heal

Overview

All of my work is informed by Somatic Experiencing and my background in bodywork,  bodypsychotherapy and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).