Your body is still running the older instructions.
Trauma therapy with ETT and Brainspotting in Raleigh, North Carolina
The First Conversation Is Free
Something happens, and you already know the sequence. Step outside, get your breathing back, give it the few minutes it takes.
By the time you walk back in, nobody in the room noticed ANYTHING.
You have been running that sequence for years, and you run it well.
Afterward, there’s a private review nobody else attends. A tone of voice, a look that lasted a beat too long, a name coming up in conversation. Then a response that belonged to something far larger.
Saying it out loud has never seemed worth the trouble, because out loud it sounds like a small thing you handled badly.
Your oversized reaction is worth telling me about.
That big response has a source somewhere in your past, and that source is reachable. If we can reach it, then we can resolve it for good with ETT.
Some experiences arrive with more emotional force than a person can process on the day it happens.
Your brain sets those big emotions aside so the rest of your life can go on. Set aside, they hold their original strength indefinitely.
Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT) is what I use in person. Brainspotting is what I use online.
Both use your visual field as the route in.
What was set aside can still be finished. Permanent change is possible.
The change lands in small places first.
The reaction stops being the first thing in the room.
We build a clear picture of your history and your symptoms, and we settle on the exact thing we’re aiming at. Trust gets built in the same conversation.
We aim before we start.
ETT in person, Brainspotting online. We reach the stored emotional material underneath your symptoms and let your brain take it through to completion.
This is the stage people feel first.
As old reactions resolve, we work on how the change holds in your ordinary week: steadier relationships, boundaries that stay put, choices you make for today.
The gains settle into your week.
Two clinicians in North Carolina currently hold ETT certification, and I’m one of them.
I’ve completed advanced training courses in ETT with its founder, Dr. Stephen Vazquez, PhD. I’m a certified ETT trauma therapist.
LCMHCA in North Carolina, National Board Certified Counselor, and a certified provider of the Safe and Sound Protocol and the Rest and Restore Protocol.
Names and ages below have been changed to protect client privacy. These are unsolicited testimonials.
“Barbara’s knowledge and experience in how the brain reacts to trauma, and her unique method of treatment has helped me to unlock and release harmful thoughts, feelings and emotions as a result of my severe childhood trauma and which prevented me from enjoying life. I now have peace of mind where before my mind was a cacophony of unwanted noise. I am forever grateful for Barbara’s kindness and patience through my healing journey. She is definitely a blessing from God!”
Theresa, age 50“It’s so much faster and easier than traditional talk therapy. It helps you to quickly access emotions, work through them and release them, even from your body.”
Laura, age 41“I’ve been to counseling before but what Barbara does is different. I’m actually seeing results. I feel like there’s more progress in this type of therapy.”
Sally, age 25Some talking is necessary to understand the trauma in general and to pinpoint the emotions involved. However, it’s not necessary to “relive the trauma.” Both ETT and Brainspotting require much less talking than typical talk therapy.
That’s common, and it doesn’t block anything.
Plenty of what we reach shows up as a feeling in the body with no picture attached, and it moves anyway.
Not at all. Clients who’ve done EMDR describe this session as a different experience.
Tell me on the phone what you tried and what moved.
Usually the opposite.
You already know your history, and you can say what you want changed. The first session goes to aiming instead of orienting.
Limited Availability This Month
There’s a version of your week where the old material gets no vote in it. Ordinary things stay the size they are.
The first conversation is a free 15-minute phone call. We’ll spend it on the one reaction you’d most like to see the back of, and on whether this work reaches it.
That week is closer than the last few years have made it look.
All information is encrypted and protected under HIPAA privacy laws.
Services are billed on a session-by-session basis.
We provide superbills for insurance reimbursement.
No hidden fees, and all costs are explained before you begin.
