Move beyond the past without reliving every detail

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Trauma can continue to affect you long after the original event has passed. You may understand logically that you are safe, yet your brain and body still react as though the danger is happening now.

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A sound, smell, place, memory or facial expression can trigger fear, panic, anger, shame or a sudden need to escape. You may experience flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive memories, hypervigilance or emotional numbness. Relationships, sleep, confidence and everyday life can all be affected.

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BWRT® is a modern, brain-based therapy designed to work with the rapid, automatic responses that can keep trauma reactions in place. Rather than asking you to repeatedly revisit or describe every painful detail, BWRT focuses on helping your brain create a different response to the memories, situations and triggers that are affecting you now.

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Trauma is not always about what happened

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Trauma is also about what your brain learned from the experience.

When something frightening, overwhelming or deeply distressing happens, the brain may create an immediate survival response. This could involve fighting, fleeing, freezing, shutting down or trying to keep other people happy in order to stay safe.

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These responses can be protective at the time. However, the brain may continue to activate the same alarm long after the original danger has passed. You may find yourself reacting strongly to situations that appear harmless to other people. This does not mean you are weak, over-sensitive or choosing to live in the past. It means your brain has learned to associate certain experiences with danger.

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BWRT works with this learned response.

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What is PTSD?

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Post-traumatic stress disorder can develop after experiencing or witnessing something frightening, distressing or life-threatening.

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Symptoms may include:

• Flashbacks or intrusive memories

• Nightmares or disturbed sleep

• Panic, anxiety or a constant sense of danger

• Avoiding people, places or situations

• Feeling emotionally numb or disconnected

• Irritability, anger or sudden emotional reactions

• Difficulty concentrating

• Feeling easily startled

• Shame, guilt or self-blame

• Physical tension and an inability to relax

Some people can clearly identify the event connected to their symptoms. For others, the reaction may have developed through repeated experiences over time.

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Complex trauma and CPTSD

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Complex trauma is often associated with prolonged, repeated or interpersonal experiences, particularly when escape or support was limited. This may include childhood neglect, emotional or physical abuse, controlling relationships, bullying, abandonment, medical trauma or living for a long time in an unpredictable environment.

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Alongside the symptoms associated with PTSD, complex trauma may also affect:

• Self-worth and identity

• Emotional regulation

• Trust and relationships

• Boundaries and people-pleasing

• Fear of rejection or abandonment

• Feelings of shame or inadequacy

• The ability to feel safe, even when life is going well

 

You may find that you constantly anticipate other people’s moods, struggle to say no or feel responsible for keeping everyone else happy. You may appear capable and successful while privately feeling anxious, unsafe or never quite good enough. These patterns are often learned survival responses rather than personality flaws.

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How BWRT can help with trauma

BWRT stands for BrainWorking Recursive Therapy®.

It works with the brain’s fast, automatic response system, the part that can react before conscious thought has had time to intervene.

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You may already know that a particular situation is safe. You may have talked about the past, understood why you feel the way you do and tried to think differently, but the reaction still appears. This is because insight and automatic emotional responses are not always controlled by the same processes.

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BWRT is designed to help interrupt the old response and establish a more helpful one. The aim is not to erase your memories or pretend that an event did not happen. It is to reduce the emotional and physical charge attached to it, so that the memory no longer controls your present.

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Do I have to talk about everything that happened?

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No, you remain in control of what you choose to share.

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BWRT does not usually require you to give a detailed account of every traumatic experience. I need enough information to understand how the problem affects you and what you would like to change, but you will not be pushed to disclose details you do not feel ready to discuss.

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For many people, this feels safer and more manageable than repeatedly retelling painful experiences.

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What can BWRT be used for?

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BWRT may help with trauma-related difficulties including:

• PTSD and complex PTSD

• Flashbacks and intrusive memories

• Panic and anxiety

• Hypervigilance

• Nightmares

• Fear and avoidance

• Shame and self-blame

• Emotional triggers

• Childhood trauma

• Relationship trauma

• Medical trauma

• Bereavement-related trauma

• Accidents and frightening events

• Bullying or workplace trauma

• Loss of confidence following trauma

 

Every person’s experience is different. Our work will be shaped around your symptoms, needs and goals rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach.

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What happens during a session?

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We begin by exploring what is happening for you now, the situations that trigger the response and how you would prefer to feel or behave instead.

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During the BWRT process, I guide you through a structured mental exercise. You remain awake, aware and in control throughout. BWRT is not hypnosis, and you will not be asked to surrender control or reveal anything against your wishes.

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The process is designed to help the brain stop following the old reaction and create a new pattern that feels calmer, safer and more appropriate to your present life.

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Some people notice a significant change quickly. More complex or longstanding trauma may require a phased approach and several sessions. We will work at a pace that feels safe and appropriate for you.

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Trauma therapy with an experienced BWRT practitioner

I am an experienced therapist and accredited BWRT practitioner, qualified to Level 3.

My work includes PTSD, complex trauma, anxiety, panic, phobias, emotional triggers, confidence and the deeper beliefs or identity patterns that can develop following difficult experiences.

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Level 1 BWRT can be used to address specific triggers, fears and automatic reactions.

Level 2 work can explore the beliefs, emotional conflicts and patterns that may sit beneath repeated difficulties.

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This allows our work to be tailored to you rather than limited to a single technique or symptom.

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You are not your trauma response

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Trauma can change how you see yourself, other people and the world around you. It can leave you feeling that you should be “over it”, that something is wrong with you or that life will always feel this difficult.

Your reactions developed for a reason, they are not evidence that you are broken.

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With the right support, the brain can learn that the danger is over. Memories can become less distressing, triggers can lose their power and you can begin to feel safer and more in control.

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Book a free consultation

You do not need to decide immediately whether therapy is right for you.

I offer a free 30-minute consultation where we can discuss what you are experiencing, what you would like to change and whether BWRT may be an appropriate approach for you.

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Book your free consultation and take the first step towards feeling calmer, safer and more in control.

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