The Trauma Therapy Group

06/04/2026

If you've been living with unexplained pelvic tension, pain, or disconnection from your body, and every test has come back "normal", this post is for you.

The pelvic floor is deeply wired into the nervous system's sense of safety and threat. For women with complex trauma histories, the pelvis is often where the body stores what the mind couldn't process.

We wrote about this because we see it regularly in our work: women who have been told nothing is physically wrong, who are managing symptoms that have no clear explanation, and who have never been offered the connection between what happened to them and what their body is holding.

Our latest blog post covers why trauma lands in the pelvic floor, what it looks like, and what working through it with EMDR and somatic therapy can offer.

Read the full post and if it resonates and you'd like to talk, we offer a free 20-minute consultation. Reach out anytime.

Chronic pelvic pain, tension, or disconnection from your body may have more to do with trauma than anatomy. Learn how the nervous system holds trauma in the pelvic floor, and what healing actually looks like.

06/02/2026

Many of our clients come to us having already done years of therapy. They understand their patterns and can name their triggers, but they still feel stuck and can’t quite explain why.

What we know is that the deepest layer of trauma doesn't live in your thoughts or even your emotions. It lives in the brainstem, in a response that fired before your thinking brain had any chance to process what was happening.

Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is a neuroscience-based approach developed to work at exactly that level. Researchers at Western University found that after just 8 sessions, 52% of participants no longer met diagnostic criteria for PTSD at the 3-month follow-up. Dropout rates were near zero, largely because DBR doesn't require you to retell or narrate what happened to you at all.

We've written a full breakdown of what DBR is, how it works alongside EMDR and somatic therapy, and whether it might be right for you.

Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is a neuroscience-based trauma therapy targeting the brainstem's response to shock. Learn how DBR works, what the research says, and whether it might be right for you.

06/01/2026

EMDR therapy is more than just eye movements — it helps your brain reprocess distressing memories so they no longer hold the same emotional charge. During sessions, you’ll build coping skills, identify target memories, reprocess them and finish feeling grounded. EMDR can reduce flashbacks, reshape negative beliefs and support lasting resilience.

https://traumatherapygroup.com/how-does-my-past-trauma-affect-me-today/

05/29/2026

Does a Friday night dance party count as somatic healing?

05/27/2026

Maybe you were never too much at all, maybe you’ve always been just perfectly you 💛

05/25/2026

There’s a version of you that learned
anger wasn’t safe to feel…

so you became calm, capable, and “easy” instead.

But that part of you didn’t disappear.
It just got quieter.

And sometimes… heavier.

If this resonates, just notice what comes up as you read this.
That’s a place we can begin.

05/25/2026

Taking the first step toward healing can feel daunting, and you deserve a space that feels safe and attuned. We offer a free 20 minute consultation so you can meet one of our trauma therapists, ask questions and see if it’s the right fit. Feel welcome to call us or use our online form.

https://traumatherapygroup.com/contact/

05/23/2026

We’ll get there... eventually 😭.

P.S. - As EMDR and DBR therapists at , we like to have at least a little snapshot of attachment patterning and the early emotional learnings, but we DON’T actually need all of the gory details in order to do good trauma work! That’s why many clients love working with us. There is no demand to talk about past experiences in depth. We follow your nervous system and re-pattern in the here and now with bottom-up opproaches!

05/21/2026

There's a huge difference between managing your symptoms and actually changing them.

So many high-achieving women in healthcare, tech, and creative fields have become experts at coping, which looks like perfectionism, hyper-independence, control through routines, and staying busy enough that the anxiety doesn't catch up. These strategies work, until they don't. Until the exhaustion is too much, the patterns keep repeating, and the inner pressure never really lifts.

Coping helps you survive, but rewiring helps your nervous system learn that it's actually safe now.

Our latest blog post breaks down what this distinction means, the role that EMDR therapy and somatic work have in the brain and body, and what becomes possible when the deeper patterns finally shift.

If you recognize yourself in this, feel welcome to give it a read.

High-achieving women master coping, but coping isn't healing. Learn the difference between managing trauma symptoms and actually rewiring your nervous system through EMDR therapy and somatic work.

05/20/2026

There’s a version of you who can run a meeting, hit every deadline…
and still feel completely thrown off by food.

It’s a weird disconnect, right?

You’ve probably had that thought:
“Why is *this* the thing I can’t get a handle on?”

But this isn’t a discipline problem.

It’s what happens when your nervous system has learned that control = safety…
and food becomes one of the places that pattern leaks out.

So the tighter you try to grip it…
the more it pushes back.

And this is the shift most people don’t get:

You don’t need more control.
You need more safety.

The kind your body actually believes.

And when that starts to click…
food stops feeling like a battle you have to win every day.