PTSD

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder happens when we have experienced a scary situation that feels life-threatening to you or to those around you, and in which you felt helpless; unable to save yourself or others. 

Symptoms of PTSD may include not being able to sleep well, having unsettling dreams, having intrusive thoughts or memories, being jittery or startling easily, or feeling angry or anxious. You may be avoiding situations that could remind you of the troubling event, or even feeling numb or disconnected.

Sometimes people try to cope with these feelings by self-medicating through drugs or alcohol.

Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy has been shown to be very effective at resolving the symptoms of PTSD, even in Iraq war veterans ("Hypnotherapy under Fire: Efficacy of Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy in the Treatment of Iraq War Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress", by Major Jeffrey Scott Yarvis, PhD, published in the Journal of Heart-Centered Therapies, Volume 11, Number 1; Spring 2008, page 3.

Many of the symptoms listed above are the effect of the trauma being "burned" into the central nervous system.  In effect, the central nervous system is in shock, or stuck in an "ON" mode. 

Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy allows you to access those symptoms that are deeply buried in the nervous system, and release them, both physically and emotionally. You are able to soothe the symptoms, and feel empowered again, more in control of your own life.

Cranial-Sacral Reiki may allow the brain to begin to settle down.

Somatic re-empowerment work helps the body to release the charges that were 'burned' into the nervous system.