Deep Brain ReorientingTM
Imagine your brain is like a computer. When you experience a trauma, it's like the computer encountered a power surge and crashed. Afterward, certain files (your responses to the trauma) get corrupted or stuck, causing the computer to malfunction.
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)TM is like running a special recovery program that goes back to the moment of the power surge. It scans through the corrupted files, and one by one, it repairs them, allowing the computer (your brain) to function smoothly again. This helps in clearing up the "error messages" or distressing symptoms you've been experiencing.
By revisiting an activating stimulus in a safe and controlled environment, DBR helps your brain process the event fully, effectively rebooting your system and allowing you to feel more at ease and relieving symptoms associated with PTSD and other trauma diagnoses. In DBR, we rarely go back to an initial trauma, instead focusing on current smaller activating stimuli which create these power surges in the brain. DBR can, over time, clear both current shock and the origin trauma, since these are stored in the same file.
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)TM is a trauma psychotherapy developed by Dr. Frank Corrigan. It aims to help individuals process traumatic experiences by accessing and tracking the original sequence of physiological responses that occurred when the brain detected a threat or attachment disruption.
DBR is particularly useful for treating attachment shock and other unresolved traumatic experiences. It emphasizes a body-based or "bottom-up" approach to trauma therapy, meaning it focuses on the physical sensations and responses associated with trauma.
Because the brain structures impacted by trauma largely function outside of a person’s awareness they cannot be accessed through traditional talk therapy.