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Victoria Ford
Pre-verbal trauma
Developmental Trauma (childhood)
Relationship Trauma
Chronic Stress
Anxiety
Depression
Trauma at any age
Car accidents
Falls
Life changes & transitions
Chronic Illness
Medical Trauma
Preparation for Surgery
Co-Regulating Touchwork is a gentle approach for trauma resolution.
Touchwork is a branch of Somatic Experiencing® Therapy.
We focus on working with your body's stress physiology, so that you have more ease in your body, emotions and mind.
In some cases when an experience is overwhelming for our system, our body might not have a chance to move through the natural cycle of a stress response, and complete it. Something may have kept us from doing what our body wanted to do at the time. Such a run, or push or fight or say something.
In some cases, such as childhood ongoing trauma, the cycle doesn't complete because threats are repeated or ongoing. A child doesn't get to successfully fight or flee when they are dependent on their parents, and smaller in size.
So we are often stuck in freeze.
This stress pattern of staying stuck in fight/flight or freeze without relief, can carry on into adulthood.
The patterns can be changed, even years later.
In these cases, we are together looking for where your system may have been held back from completion. We offer your system the support it needs to re-organize and come back in to that settled, safe & social branch of the nervous system.
Victoria provides Co-Regulating Touchwork for
women in their mid 30's and up, who are experiencing feeling "stuck" in some aspect of life.
If you are interested in Touchwork, yet do not fit in this category, you are welcome to reach out for referrals.
A session always begins seated in our chairs, having conversation about your concerns and plans for our focus today. We could be focusing on an emotion, a physical symptom, a thought, something you are anticipating, or a memory.
If you choose to do some Touchwork,
you're invited to lay down on a massage table on your back, fully dressed, with shoes usually removed.
Hand placements by the practitioner are light, in areas known to hold trauma patterns such as joints (shoulders, wrists, ankles) adrenals (your back) and brainstem (the back of your head).
We talk some during the session, communicating about what sensations, thoughts or feelings you are having. We listen to your body to understand both how it's holding stress and what it needs to complete or release the held pattern.
Non verbal, pre-verbal and childhood trauma leave imprints, sometimes without stories or pictures or explanations. Sometimes there are full memories. The good news is we can work on resolution without the story.
This gentle approach does not rely on knowing or verbally processing the "story" of what happened, or didn't happen.
The healing happens in the here and now, by co-regulating with a present, caring person that is human first.
I offer my regulated nervous system and somatic skills for gentle trauma resolution.
Services are provided by Victoria Ford. Somatic Experiencing Practitioner & Licensed Therapist.
230.00 Initial Session 90 minutes
175.00 One hour sessions
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