Specialties

Anxiety

When stressors both perceived and actual are always present, we are constantly in this stress response system of flight-or-fight. With nervous system work we both desensitize you from anxiety drivers and help your nervous system shift.

Healing isn't about removing all anxiety but your body shifting into different states that match the situation.

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.

Trauma, CPTSD, and 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

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.

Addictions

At Vagus Counseling it is rarely about the addiction. It is simply the medicator to underlying, stress, depression, anxiety, attention difficulties or 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 issue.

We do not treat withdrawal symptoms, or detox. Although have methods that eliminate cravings and significantly reduce relapse potential in those who are not in active addiction.

Faith Crisis and Transitions

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 original 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 self whatever that happens to be.