Expressive Trauma Integration - Dr. Odelya Gertel Kraybill

Expressive Trauma Integration - Dr. Odelya Gertel Kraybill ETI™ webinars for parents and therapists. Psychotrauma, psychoneuroimmunology, neuroimmune parenting and biohacking dysregulation. Dr. Odelya Gertel Kraybill

Expressive Trauma Integration™ (ETI) is an integrative therapeutic approach that utilizes cutting edge research on Biohacking Dysregulation in PTSD and neuroimmune conditions while addressing all domains of health. ETI integrates recent findings and practices from neuroscience, attachment and developmental psychology, expressive and body oriented therapies, cognitive reframing, behavioral modification, mindfulness, nutritional psychology, and psychoneuroimmunology.​




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Dr. Odelya Gertel Kraybill PhD, LCPC, is a trauma researcher, psychotherapist, neurodivergent parenting consultant, and PANDAS mom. She has studied trauma and nutritional psychology for over two decades. One of her research interests in the last decade has been wellness and integrative health, especially nutritional psychology in the context of chronic stress and trauma. She advocates for mental health interventions that target root causes (chronic stress, neuroinflammation, neuroimmunity, autoimmunity, brain-gut-axis) and addresses all domains of health (emotional, cognitive, physical, spiritual, and social). She consults individuals and families with the most complex mental health conditions. She helps her clients investigate root causes and tailor short-term and long-term intervention plans. She collaborates with neurologists, psychiatrists, infection disease specialists, paramedical specialists (occupational therapists, physical therapists, nutritionists), neuropsychologists, teachers, and parental advocates to help her clients target all aspects of life toward maximum wellness. She provides one-time, short-term, and long-term consultations, trains clinicians, and runs webinars and support groups for neuroimmune parents nationwide.

How attunement shifts through therapeutic co regulation into an embodied sense of secure attunement and becomes the foun...
03/04/2026

How attunement shifts through therapeutic co regulation into an embodied sense of secure attunement and becomes the foundation for trauma integration and sustainability
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Self-compassion often fails after complex trauma, not because it is wrong, but because survival comes first. Attunement ...
02/10/2026

Self-compassion often fails after complex trauma, not because it is wrong, but because survival comes first. Attunement is the verb that builds safety before kindness is possible. Read in link:
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Self-compassion often fails after complex trauma, not because it is wrong, but because survival comes first. Attunement ...
02/10/2026

Self-compassion often fails after complex trauma, not because it is wrong, but because survival comes first. Attunement is the verb that builds safety before kindness is possible.

Self-compassion often fails after complex trauma, not because it is wrong, but because survival comes first. Attunement is the verb that builds safety before kindness is possible.

Attempts to be positive do no expand capacity to endure pain.Post in comments
01/31/2026

Attempts to be positive do no expand capacity to endure pain.
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The Inflamed Brain in Psychiatric DisordersFor clinicians and therapists working with people who haven’t responded to st...
01/05/2026

The Inflamed Brain in Psychiatric Disorders

For clinicians and therapists working with people who haven’t responded to standard treatments, this research offers both a challenge and a new sense of possibility. It asks us to look wider, to consider that what seems like psychological resistance might sometimes be rooted in neuroinflammation.

This means making room for the idea that healing sometimes means listening to what’s happening in the immune system, in the gut, in the signals running through every cell.

Just as cancer treatment is becoming more personalized, mental health care is also moving toward individualized medical approaches. The future will draw on new research about neuroimmunity and neuroinflammation, especially for people with complicated symptoms that don’t respond to typical treatments.
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In light of recent days, a reminder that trauma processing is not appropriate at this time. Individuals exposed to a cri...
12/16/2025

In light of recent days, a reminder that trauma processing is not appropriate at this time. Individuals exposed to a critical incident need Psychological First Aid focused on safety, stabilization, and support rather than trauma processing.




When The Holidays Meet Complex Sorrow ParentingNeuroimmune parenting involves unpredictable shifts that create emotional...
12/13/2025

When The Holidays Meet Complex Sorrow Parenting

Neuroimmune parenting involves unpredictable shifts that create emotional overload and invisible grief.
Parents experience layered loss: who their child was, who they may become, and the uncertainty in between.
Complex sorrow is not depression or lack of coping; it reflects love, vigilance, and relentless caregiving.
Intentional self-attunement offers a way to meet sorrow with presence, reducing overwhelm to expand capacity.

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Self-attunement has changed my life.I needed to develop a simplified form of self-compassion that fits the realities of ...
12/11/2025

Self-attunement has changed my life.
I needed to develop a simplified form of self-compassion that fits the realities of CPTSD and offers an accessible entry point for those of us living with persistent, high stress.

As our understanding of neuroimmune conditions grows, it's becoming clear that clinicians working with treatment-resista...
12/07/2025

As our understanding of neuroimmune conditions grows, it's becoming clear that clinicians working with treatment-resistant trauma-related symptoms need to become aware of the role the immune system plays in treatment intervention. This means paying attention not just to thoughts and emotions, but to what's happening beneath the surface in the blood, in the immune response, in the cellular machinery that shapes how we respond to stress.

The path forward isn't about choosing between psychological and biological approaches. It's about weaving them together into something more complete, something that finally reflects complete health in all its domains.

A new study suggests treatment-resistant depression may be rooted in the immune system. Trauma, stress biology, and mini-brain models reveal a hidden neuroimmune story.

ETI Reset exercise
12/01/2025

ETI Reset exercise




"In addition to acknowledging the contribution that their painful symptoms have made to keeping them alive and safe, I a...
11/27/2025

"In addition to acknowledging the contribution that their painful symptoms have made to keeping them alive and safe, I aim to help my clients discover something even more important: Despite everything that happened in the past, and despite the pain and chaos of the present, survivors keep trying. Determination, creativity, courage, and perseverance to survive are among the most important and poorly recognized resources of many survivors."

Post-Traumatic Growth is a bigger process than is widely understood. For most, it's a process of meaning making through action, contemplation, and reflection.

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