5742 Adams Avenue PArkway Suite C, Washington Terrace, UT 84405
801-690-7455
Healing Beyond the Mind: Recovery through Nervous System Regulation
At Vagus Counseling, we specialize in Brainspotting, an advanced form of EMDR therapy, along with other somatic therapies, to help you heal at a deeper level by working with your nervous system. Trauma doesn’t just affect the mind—it also disrupts the function of the Vagus nerve and the Sympathetic Trunk, which can lead to imbalances throughout the body.
Many report feeling lighter and experiencing noticeable healing as soon as the day after a session. Emotional and physical pain often lessen, memories become easier to process, negative thought patterns decrease, and sleep improves. A weight lifting!
While CBT is effective for addressing the cognitive mind, newer research shows that trauma, anxiety, and depression need to be healed at the nervous system level. If traditional talk therapy isn’t working for you or has stopped bringing relief, this could be the next step in your healing journey. We're here to support you through it.
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PTSD, Anxiety, and many other mental health conditions are not thought (Aka Cognitive Disorders). They are treatable disruptions of the nervous, endocrine, and lymphatic systems.
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Anxiety
When stressors both perceived and actual are always present, we are constantly in this stress response system of flight-or-fight.
Brainspotting and somatic therapies help release stressors held in our nervous system, and muscles, returning us to a natural way of being.
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Addictions
At Vagus Counseling it is rarely about the addiction. It is simply the medicator to underlying, stress, depression, anxiety and trauma.
What makes Vagus Counseling different is we believe addiction is amplified when we no longer feel connected with ourselves. In therapy we will rarely talk about the addiction but about your core self and heal the root pain.
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Medical Trauma and Fibromyalgia
Chronic ventral vagal response can lead to digestive issues, chronic pain, and immune system dysfunction.
The dorsal vagal response is to prepare us to feel less pain. The nervous system does not understand modern medicine. You lived, but your body does not feel alive.
At Vagus counseling we start by either slowing down or speeding up your nervous system which ever is needed for you.
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PTSD
Single incident traumas are often treated in just a few sessions. CPTSD can take longer.
With graphic traumas such as sexual assault, we do not go over every little detail. Only what effects you now still maters. Clients may process a trauma and say as few as 10 words.
Often times I hear something new everyday, although as a former EMT and firefighter I have been in the trenches with people on their worst days.
Jerry specializes in institutional abuse, as a survivor himself he understands the fear and thought patterns of other survivors.
Vagus Counseling also specializes in Developmental Traumas. Bullying growing up, moving frequently, learning slightly differently or due to ADHD as several examples
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Chronic Burnout
Chronic burnout causes physical symptoms such as extreme fatigue, a lack of energy and being unable to think clearly.
Burnout is a normal response to your bodies nervous and endocrine system. We will work together to help find balance.
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Faith Crisis
We embrace the beauty and purpose of human uniqueness. It is the job of the therapist to remain neutral in your journey. Some clients return to their faith and others chose a different route.
Experiences, thought patterns, and behaviors are the way in which specific neural networks are established, utilized, and strengthened. We work together to bring your neural networks to your natural way to reconnect to your own truth whatever that may be.
