by Paige Bartholomew, LMFT, Licensed Psychotherapist
A new client will sit across from me and say something like, “I know where this anxiety comes from. I’ve processed my childhood. I understand the pattern. But I can’t understand why I still feel it….every single day.”
They’ve done the work: at least, the kind of work most people think is supposed to help. They’ve gone to talk therapy. They’ve read the books. They listened to all the podcasts, TikToks and Youtube videos.
They’ve understood. But insight isn’t healing
The nervous system doesn’t respond to logic. It doesn’t speak English. It speaks “sensation”. It speaks “impulse”. It speaks through the breath that catches when someone raises their voice, or the tension that floods your chest when your phone buzzes at the wrong time.
Most talk therapy focuses in the thinking, planning part of the brain. But trauma, fear, and old relational wounds don’t live there. They live in the body. In the old brain. In the unconscious. In the parts of you that are still bracing for something that happened long ago.
That’s why my approach is different. I’m not a distant clinician. I don’t sit behind a therapeutic wall. I’m interactive. I’ll tell you what I notice. I’ll share what I sense happening in your system. I work with the parts of you that carry the fearful memories, depression and hopelessness…not just the part that can explain it all.
I use Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing, hypnotherapy, and deep attachment repair work to reach the layers that words can’t. These are the tools that let us speak to the parts of you that never got the memo that it’s safe now.
Because healing isn’t about understanding what happened. It’s about helping your system believe that it’s over.
Curious what that kind of therapy feels like?
Learn more about how I work →<https://www.paigebartholomew.com/>
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