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Counseling and Psychotherapy
Therapy is creating a safe space to strengthen your relationship with yourself so that you can persist, work through and overcome any of life's challenges. Though I enjoy working across the spectrum of mental health and wellness, I offer a specialization in helping children and adults to cope with and thrive through Anxiety and Trauma.
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Areas of Focus
Anxiety, Anger, Trauma or PTSD, Childhood Abuse or Neglect, Depression, Life Transitions, Relationships, LGBTQI, Parenting, Sleep, Stress Management, Recovery from Substance Abuse
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Expertise
Trauma, Co-Occurring Disorders, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Relational Psychotherapy
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Your Investment
Trauma and Dissociation
How I work...
When trauma happens in the context of relationship, the pathway to healing is also through relationship. This is at the foundation of the work, and you will be invited to share your experience and feelings about safety in relationships generally and also with me. As you feel more and more safe together, I will invite you to explore various dimensions of your experience - beyond the cognitive or intellectual realm, into more unconscious worlds of emotion, frozen memory and protective strategies that are out of date and cost more than they serve. Trauma work is a back and forth of top-down, bottom-up, body-mind, mind-body, security-risk, opening-containing. With your consent, willingness and readiness, I may invite you to use waking hypnosis or deep brain reorienting to open channels into different dimensions of your experience, with the goal of expanding understanding and re-integrating memories that have been frozen in time. Trauma work is unfreezing - with the warmth of feeling secure together.
Group Experience
PATHWAYS TO WONDER
Transforming Trauma through Brain, Body, Art and Soul.
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Pathways to Wonder is an 8-week adjunctive therapeutic experience for anyone seeking freedom from trauma and its lasting impact. This integrative program blends four individual Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) sessions with four small group experiences, guiding participants through bottom-up and top-down exploration of brain, body, mind, sense of self, in relationship.
In DBR sessions, participants will learn to notice and stay with the deep brain and body’s stored trauma fragments and reactions—including shock, sensation, and sensorimotor defenses. Then, with support of the small group, will move, symbolize, transform and reflect upon what emerges. Alternating between deep brain/body states and creative expression/reflection, this experience offers profound opportunity to turn traumatic wounds into pathways of (re)connection, vitality, and wonder.​​
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*Dayna Sharp is an out-of-network provider. Please contact your insurance company to ensure that you have out-of-network coverage. You can also check to see if your Medical Savings or Flexible Spending Account might be used. I am happy to provide a receipt for reimbursement at time of service.
I accept cash or check at time of services rendered.
I have developed a specialization in working with people who carry trauma and have a deep appreciation for the ongoing impact of traumatic experience on our sense of selves and relationships -who we feel we are, the way we feel in our bodies, and the sometimes chaotic experience of our minds. Some people come to me seeking relief from the pain of childhood sexual, physical and/or emotional abuse, some have experienced sexual assault in their teens or adulthood, and others may "not remember" traumatic experience, but feel scared about something that just doesn't feel right.
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Trauma is an event - or sometimes ongoing events - that overwhelm, flood and disorganize the sense of self and often, sense of safety in relationship and in the world. At its core, trauma disrupts ordinary brain and body rhythms and in particular may alter consciousness through our endogenous cannabinoids/opioid systems, thereby disrupting sensory processing and memory storage. Effective therapy for working through trauma requires a genuine restoration of one's sense of safety and stability of one's self as well as the possibility for felt safety in relationships. From there, trauma work opens opportunity for integration of frozen memory fragments, defensive patterns and altered states.​​​​​​​​​