Deep Brain Reorienting
Working With Trauma at a Deeper Level
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is a new therapeutic approach for processing trauma and attachment shock. It works to restore the brain’s natural communication pathways and in doing so processes shock, hyper-vigilance and armouring patterns.
DBR is often experienced as a gentle safe approach to working with painful traumatic memories, since it opens up memory networks in the brain that precede thoughts, personal narrative, and emotions. There is no need to come with early childhood memories or dig-up past history. We work very much in the present tense.
Many people find it helpful, effective – even life changing.
Before Fight Flight or Freeze
DBR targets traumatic and attachment shock, which can occur before the animal survival responses of fight, flight and freeze that are more commonly addressed in contemporary trauma treatment. In this way, it can reach aspects of experience that other approaches may not touch
DBR works with the brainstem and midbrain structures involved in storing, processing and consolidating traumatic memory and deep attachment wounds. You remain in the driver’s seat throughout, able to modulate both pace and intensity; making it possible to be with what has previously felt frightening, overwhelming —or even unknown.