and Trauma Resolution Programs
After years of offering nervous system work, I've narrowed down what gets the best results.
1:1 Brainspotting Intensives.
Highly targeted somatic trauma therapy for neurosensitives in three sessions, spread over three days in the same week.
10.5 hours of personalised spaceholding incorporating the best somatic techniques I have in my therapist toolkit.
Over the three days, you have exclusive access to my energy (I don’t book other clients or personal appointments). Clients can feel energetically that I’m focused on them and not distracted by ‘life’ or others.
My intention for these Intensives is to give your mind and body whatever you need. Brainspotting is the main approach, but I incorporate other somatic trauma approaches, such as, Somatic Experiencing, trauma touchwork and neural integration (particularly helpful for neurodivergent brains to integrate and embody trauma processing work).
These Intensives are for self-healers and practitioners and are the fastest pathway to healing trauma I know.
When we spend three days together, we are able to drill right down into the trauma patterns and core beliefs holding you back. I’ve seen remarkable changes by the end of the second session.
You get 10.5 hours of somatic trauma therapy in three half day sessions spread over three days at my home clinic in Beachmere - just north of Brisbane and the gateway to the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
The online version of these Intensives is structured slightly differently (over four days, because online work is more tiring for the body and brain).
Email me for available dates - I offer Brainspotting Intensives once per month.
When you have booked your Intensive, I can send you a few accommodations in the area - Beachmere is a small resort town, focused on leisure and fun!
If you’d prefer to discuss your options in person, book a FREE co-regulation call and we can work it out together. (If you don’t see a time that suits, send me an email.)
Humans are hardwired to evolve and grow through connection, and the Brainspotting attunement method supports this evolution in a gentle, non-confronting way. Brainspotting heals encapsulated trauma in the brain, creates new neural pathways and invites curiosity about exploring new patterns. Then, as your nervous system capacity expands, you orient toward this new way of Being.
Whether you’re an experienced somatic traveller, or it’s your first time, Brainspotting Intensives introduce your body to working at the level of your nervous system. Your mind will think it knows what this means, but very often, a perspective shift is needed. Many people haven’t even considered that what their body desires might be different from what their mind wants. Even before ‘enlightenment thinking’, which prioritised the mind, Cartesian philosophy (“I think, therefore I am”), conditioned us to let our minds be in control. Newsflash! The mind wants to be superior, but the body wants equality.
RAQUEL’S FUSION OF Modalities
Raquel draws upon a range of modalities she has studied to inform her unique approach to trauma healing and nervous system expansion.
Brainspotting
Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core sources of emotional pain, trauma and distress. It can relieve body pain associated with unintegrated and dissociated memories from your distant or recent past.
Unlike talk therapy, Brainspotting accesses the deep brain structures where memories are held but cannot be accessed through thinking or remembering. It is deep, direct and powerful, yet also focused and containing.
Brainspotting uses activated eye positions designated as brainspots. Located through either one or both eyes, brainspots are observed by focusing on the client’s inner awareness of their body sensations or by tracking and observing the client’s outer reflexive responses (e.g., blink, eye twitches or wobbles, pupil dilation, breath changes and subtle body behaviour shifts).
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing® is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and stress. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine, resulting from his studies in psychology, human physiology, animal behaviour, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics.
SE facilitates the organic release of traumatic shock and re-organisation without forcing, pushing or efforting. It is one of only a few trauma therapies which takes into account the client's threshold so as not to cause re-traumatisation or overwhelm.
SE addresses the root cause of stress and trauma by facilitating the completion of self-protective responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body. Clients are gently guided to develop tolerance for difficult bodily sensations, suppressed emotions and contracted nervous system states.
Somatic Touchwork
Somatic touchwork is a gentle, non-invasive, fully-clothed style of touch therapy to release frozen and stuck states held in the body.
Everyone’s experience is different, and it’s difficult to put into words, because 'touch' lights up the the place in the brain where there are no words.
This way of working is the most profound technique I have ever encountered. It is unbelievably sacred and deep. Touchwork supports the release of pre-verbal experiences you may not have any words for (or memory of), but feel as stuck or contracted states in your body.
Both client and practitioner work together noticing sensations in organs, joints, fluids and bones, gradually creating more opening and expansion in the nervous system through the power of energy, attention, intention and touch.