Feeling Stuck in Your Healing?

Trauma reshapes not only your mind but how your body and nervous system respond — often leaving you feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or fragmented. Sometimes, parts of yourself may feel distant or “checked out,” a protective response known as dissociation.

Healing isn’t a straightforward path. It moves in waves — some days you’ll feel grounded and hopeful; other days, you might feel pulled back into old patterns or disconnected from your feelings and body. This ebb and flow is a sign that your nervous system is working to find new balance and safety.

It takes patience, courage, and self-compassion to navigate these moments of connection and disconnection. At Foothills Integrative, we understand this complexity and walk with you, guiding you to gently build safety, presence, and strength — at your own pace.

What is Trauma?

Trauma includes both “big T” events — like accidents, abuse, or loss — and the “small t” experiences that quietly shape your nervous system over time, such as chronic stress, disrupted attachment, or neglect.

Trauma is stored not just in memories but in your body’s sensations, nervous system responses, and patterns of relating. Healing means reconnecting with your body’s natural capacity for safety and regulation, fostering new ways of feeling grounded and connected — to yourself and others.

Our Approach to Trauma Therapy

Beyond Talk: Healing Through Safety, Connection, and Embodiment

Traditional talk therapy can miss how trauma lives in your body and nervous system. Our approach focuses on helping you feel safe inside your body and nervous system first — because real healing begins there.

We integrate evidence-based, trauma-specific therapies tailored to your unique experience, including:

  • Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) — a gentle, neurobiological approach helping the brain process trauma with safety.
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) — an effective method to reprocess distressing memories.
  • Natural Processing (NP) — facilitating the brain’s innate ability to heal trauma when safety is present.
  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy — body-based techniques that reconnect mind and body.
  • Polyvagal-Informed Practices — working with your nervous system’s natural rhythms to restore balance.
  • Mindfulness and Grounding — building present-moment awareness and stability.Attachment-Informed Care — creating a secure therapeutic relationship to rebuild trust and connection.

Who is Trauma Therapy For?

Our trauma therapy supports anyone who feels impacted by past or ongoing trauma — whether clearly remembered or felt as unease in the body. You don’t need a diagnosis to benefit.

You Might Be Ready if You:

  • Feel disconnected or numb, or experience dissociation.
  • Struggle with anxiety, depression, or mood shifts linked to trauma.
  • Have difficulty trusting or relating to others.
  • Experience physical symptoms without medical explanation.
  • Are overwhelmed by memories or emotional triggersSeek compassionate support to heal attachment wounds and rebuild connection.

What to Expect in Trauma Therapy

Healing unfolds at your pace, prioritizing safety and presence

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Building Safety, Grounding, and Containment

We start with developing tools to help you feel steady and grounded, managing dissociation or overwhelm so that trauma processing feels manageable. We proceed at a pace that fits for your nervous system and for some this may be slower than their mind may like. If we go too quickly, we risk entrenching habits of avoidance, or previously helpful strategies that kept you safe during stressful times that are now getting in the way.
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The Therapeutic Relationship

Your therapist offers attuned, compassionate guidance, honoring your experience and pacing healing collaboratively. Research demonstrates that the quality of the therapeutic relationship is one of the most important factors in you being able to realize sustained change.
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Trauma Processing as an Embodied Experience

When you’re ready, we engage in trauma processing through approaches that involve body, mind, and nervous system — supporting integration beyond words alone. The evidence shows that talk therapy is often inadequate for resolving long held symptoms of stress held in the body and nervous system. We engage your body's capacity to resolve these stuck patterns and enable greater freedom and ease in daily functioning.
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Healing Is Non-Linear

Progress moves in waves. Moments of connection and disconnection are part of your nervous system learning new ways to feel safe and present. Often small changes occur over time and then there can be significant shifts - quantum change - that occurs all at once. Both are normal and expected.

Next Steps: Begin Your Healing Journey

Taking the first step is an act of courage. We’re here to support you.

How to Get Started:

Explore Our Team: Meet our trauma-informed clinicians with diverse, integrative expertise. 

Choose Your Path: Whether trauma therapy, individual psychotherapy, or neurotherapy we tailor our approach to your needs.

Book a Consultation: Schedule a 20-minute phone or teletherapy consult to discuss your goals and find the right fit.

Begin Therapy: Together, you’ll create a personalized plan — moving at your pace, grounded in trust and collaboration.

When You're Ready, We're Here

Beginning trauma therapy is a meaningful step — one that deserves care, respect, and support.

There’s no rush. Healing unfolds at your pace.

If you feel ready to explore next steps, we offer a free 20-minute consultation to help you get a sense of fit and ask any questions — no pressure, just a conversation.

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