Trauma Informed

Clinical trauma processing is HARD WORK! Massage with a qualified practitioner is a necessary part of the work you do with your Mental Health Therapist. Cindy Dewitt is a Certified NeuroSomatic Practitioner. Her ambition is to harness the power of her lived experience, education, and professional background to bring forth more meaningful and lasting healing to her clients.

Here are just a few reasons why is massage important during trauma processing.

SELF-CARE

Exploring and processing past trauma, distant or recent is very hard work! And just like any hard job, you need to fuel yourself to get the best out of it. Self-care is a vital part of this process. Massage can give you the meditative time to allow your body and mind to come into balance.  Rewarding yourself for the hard work of therapy is just as important as the work itself!

BETTER SLEEP

Massage is proven to improve sleep quality. Quality sleep clears out the lymphatic system in the brain, reduce inflammation, and allow your body to rest and restore. Therapeutic processing of trauma presents more challenges to quality sleep during a time that you need it the most. Massage can help to regulate your sleep patterns and give you optimal health during a challenging time.

PAIN MANAGEMENT

As said above, trauma work can send your nervous system into a threat response (fight, flight, freeze, fawn). This reaction can be subtle and consistent in a way that you cognitively don’t know you are in threat response. Some threat responses include muscle contraction, increased respiration, increased eye movement, and inflammation. This may be why you are experiencing increased pain and exhaustion around and between therapy sessions. Massage helps to reduce these responses, relax muscles, reduce inflammation, and repair tissue damage.

NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION

Exploring your trauma with a therapist often alerts the nervous system and can put you into a threat response. Therapies like EMDR and CBT can trigger neurotags that send your nervous system into “survival mode”. Cindy Dewitt, NSICP can provide the tools to help you maintain a calm nervous system, during and between sessions, while you process your trauma and bring you to optimal healing.