Complex Trauma & Complex Health
When the body is still bracing
Trauma isn’t only what happened. It’s what stayed — in the nervous system, in the muscles, in the way you scan a room before you sit down.
You might recognise some of this
- You live in a low hum of alertness that never quite switches off
- Sleep is broken, or comes only from exhaustion
- Pain or symptoms that tests keep coming back clear on
- Anxiety or depression that talking about hasn’t shifted
- Anger or tears that arrive out of proportion — then shame afterwards
- Long stretches of numbness, or watching your life from a distance
- You’ve done therapy before and understood a great deal, and still feel the same
None of that means something is wrong with you. It means your body did what it had to do at the time, and hasn’t yet been shown that the time has passed.
How this work goes
Chronic stress and trauma stay in the body. They arrive from personal, cultural, ancestral and collective adversity, and they show up as anxiety, reactivity, pain, complicated grief, insomnia and a life that has quietly lost its vitality.
We work from the bottom up. Rather than only talking about what happened, we attend to sensation, feeling, image, gesture and rhythm — the body’s own record of your life. This draws on attachment research, interpersonal neurobiology and recent brain science, and it works with acute trauma (accidents, injury, medical procedures) as readily as with chronic and relational trauma.
We listen to the truth of our lives as expressed by our bodies.
You are never asked to relive anything. Re-telling a story at full intensity is not what heals it; a nervous system that learns it can come back down is. We move at the pace yours sets.
Start with a conversation
A free twenty-minute call. No forms, no history to recount — we talk, and you decide whether this feels like the right fit.