02/19/2026
Why I Added Access Consciousness Techniques to My Trauma Practice?
Many of my high-performing and professionally successful clients believe that:
“If I understand my trauma, I should be over it.”
"If I keep myself busy, it will not bother me."
"I am successful and able to multitask; nothing wrong with my emotional health."
"Feeling this way is normal; that's who I am."
"That's how I have always dealt with life, nothing wrong with my ways."
Unfortunately, trauma does not live only in cognition. It lives in the nervous system.
As an EMDR Certified Therapist working in Surrey and lower mainland, I noticed something important:
Clients could process traumatic memories effectively through EMDR — yet their bodies remained braced.
Their system still anticipated danger.
There was something invisible and unexplainable by words.
This is why I chose to get trained in Access Consciousness and Body Consciousness processes.
Not as a replacement for evidence-based therapy.
But as an addition.
EMDR helps reprocess trauma at the neurological level.
Body-based work such as access consciousness techniques helps the nervous system trust safety again.
For high achievers, survival patterns often look like:
Overworking
Hyper-independence
Perfectionism
Emotional shutdown
These are not personality traits.
They are adaptations.
True trauma recovery involves:
Rewiring neuropathways
Regulating the nervous system
Releasing subconscious patterns
Restoring embodied safety
Healing is not only intellectual.
It is physiological and subconscious work. The subconscious also holds genetics and ancestral trauma. Both are mysterious areas for most. How to cut when you can't see? That invites trial and error approaches, judgments and beliefs based on one's own experiences. And the train of your life keeps running very fast without enjoying the views and relaxing in a safe relationship (with self and with others).
If you are functioning at a high level but still feel internally unsettled, your system may be asking for deeper integration.
And there is no weakness in seeking that.
I am, and your body and mind are ready when your logical mind allows you to prioritize your own joy, peace, and contentment in life.
