Illumine Psychotherapy and Counselling
Where Neuroscience Meets Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy
Trauma-informed and brain-based therapies for optimal wellbeing and growth
Trauma can profoundly alter how individuals experience themselves, others, and the world around them. Many trauma survivors describe a deep sense of loneliness and emotional pain that gradually led to them building protective walls within themselves and between relationships. While these defences once served a purpose, they can later limit meaningful connection, reinforce isolation, and make it difficult to thrive or live to one’s full potential.
Prolonged or repeated trauma—particularly experiences rooted in adverse childhood events—can leave lasting neurophysiological imprints. Research has shown these experiences increase an individual's vulnerability to a range of physical and mental health challenges which could include chronic pain, insomnia, migraines, nightmares, dissociative experiences, and cognitive/neurological symptoms such as brain fog, all of which can significantly affect daily functioning and lower quality of life.
However, hope is at hand. The brain and nervous system retain an innate capacity for healing through neuroplasticity—the ability to adapt, reorganise, and recover.
With the right therapeutic support from a trained and experienced clinical therapist, this natural healing of the brain can be harnessed to bring about healing, supporting restoration, resilience, and renewed connection.
Our Mission and Approach
As Brené Brown reminds us, “We don’t have to do it all alone. We were never meant to.”
— Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
At Illumine Psychotherapy and Counselling, we are passionate and committed to walking alongside trauma survivors on their healing journey.
Evidence-based and trauma-informed therapies deployed within a secure therapuetic relationship can foster post-traumatic growth and resilience.
Our work is grounded in the values of integrity, compassion, and respect. These principles guide our practice and ensure that each client receives ethical, attentive, and high-quality care in a safe and supportive therapeutic environment.
We work within a client-centred, trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and brain-based framework, grounded in neurodiversity-affirming practice.
We adopt an integrative, creative and collaborative approach to therapy incorporating evidence-based, mind–body modalities, including Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Infra-Low Frequency Neurofeedback Therapy, Psychodynamic and Interpersonal Therapy, Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), and Ego State Therapy to support your healing, transform crises into catalysts for growth, strengthen emotional well-being and cultivate fulfilling and meaningful relationships.
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