Various acupressure points and eye movement are utilized to reduce or extinguish psychological distress in the trauma response. Longer sessions allow for healthy attachment and attunement between the client and the therapist fostering healthy co-regulation. Resourcing sessions are included.
At this time, most insurances will not cover trauma intensives. As a collective, we do not want to believe in qualifying or disqualifying for specific diagnoses. We understand that many of these symptoms are comorbid and complex in their interplay as a result of trauma. We have seen experiences of dissociation being so strong and compartmentalized that a medical doctor would say the client’s presentation was purely physical or merely psychological. We know that humans are body, mind, emotion, and spiritual beings. All aspects of the person should be addressed in holistic care towards healing.
LivingCloser Retreats has host houses for designated retreats. Trauma intensives can be emotionally and therefore physically exhausting. Remaining in one’s own home to do the work requires a tremendous amount of self-discipline. Those household chores, demands of family, and temptations to keep up with work obligations are always there. No one knows your resolve like you do. If you can make space in your home and schedule to do this work, we will agree to a virtual intensive in your own home. If you are more intentional about your healing backdrop, you could pick a more exotic or scenic destination. The intensive facilitator is able to travel and stay onsite to host the retreat. We would encourage you to do due diligence to ensure quiet, safety, and a strong internet connection. Wi-Fi outages would be the easiest way for an intensive to be disrupted and less effective.
Virtual intensives are also available with a reduced or modified selection of interventions/techniques. But see “own house”/“beach house” answer regarding internet and home life distractions.
When scientists got down to the molecular level of the cell, they determined there was a mystery force at the core of each cell that animated it. They called this force, energy. It is the inner work of the cell. We now know through modern science, the body is made up of energetic currents. Each organ has and energetic pathway in the body and each has a different frequency. These organs are connected to invisible pathways that can be felt, assessed and influenced through mental intention, acupressure points, and eye movement sequencing.
Energy work categorized a complimentary alternative medicine. These techniques are meant to assist the body in healing itself by correcting energy deficiencies and bring balance to dysregulated body energy to optimize its natural, God-given ability to heal. Negative experiences and beliefs rob the body of the energy it needs to thrive. More and more research is evolving in this field through modern quantum physics validating what energy workers have been saying for millennia through the ancient practice of energy work.
Working with any part of the body the way it was originally designed by God is not limited to a particular religion or ideology. Chiropractors and other specializing doctors do not practice within or outside of a religion. Though Christianity probably has the least amount of literature focusing on energy medicine, its foundational teachings on healing, the power of prayer, and the practice of laying on of hands, are the exact interventions of modern energy work. As believers, we acknowledge the truth that in Him we live and move and have our being. We believe that the will of God is the very Intention of God that animates us on a cellular level.
To date, our trauma specialists have worked with multiple wisdom traditions and religions outside of traditional Christianity. Our protocols rely on prayer and forgiveness. If clients willing to be lead in prayer and forgiveness, we will work with them. Any questions about these concerns should be brought up in the initial information call and throughout intake process. Both parties need to feel that the rapport built facilitates a solid attachment and trust moving forward.