Therapy for Nervous System Dysregulation
Nervous System Dysregulation can be very distressing. You may find yourself reacting and/or being overly sensitive to sensory stimuli or other things in your environment. This may be limiting or controlling your life. It can also cause additional health problems as your body is dealing with too much stress for too long. We can work together to bring more regulation to your nervous system and help you live your life with more ease.
Struggles with Nervous System Dysregulation
Some of the struggles you may experience with nervous system dysregulation include:
- Not being able to relax, difficulty calming yourself down after being triggered, always on alert, easily overwhelmed or overstimulated
- Chronic pain or illness, autoimmune disorders and diseases, skin and gut issues
- Rumination, mind racing, constant worries, or intrusive thoughts
- Highly sensitive to sensory stimuli, multiple food sensitivities, and highly sensitive to other people’s emotional states
- Sleep issues and daytime fatigue
- Frequently snappy, irritable and reactive
- Constantly anxious, agitated, stressed or worried
- Hard time controlling your emotions or the inability to feel emotions
The Path Forward
There are ways to regulate your nervous system and reduce the symptoms of nervous system dysregulation. We can look at what is driving the dysregulation and address any barriers to the strategies that can help regulate your nervous system. We can reduce your suffering and help you live with more contentment and ease.
Please book a free 15-minute consultation to find out how I can help you or continue reading below.
Who Am I and Why Am I Passionate about Nervous System Dysregulation
I’m Leona Westra and am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with lived experience of nervous system dysregulation. I know the mystifying struggles of having all these symptoms and not having answers to them. As well, I also know the struggles to try to regulate a nervous system that’s been dysregulated for so long and how it feels to finally find that regulation.
I want to help ease your suffering and help you to regulate your nervous system.
I’ve completed various trainings to bring you the knowledge, skills, techniques, and strategies to improve your current challenges and work towards lasting change.
A Space to be Open and Real About Your Struggles
So often we hide our struggles for various reasons (don’t want to be a burden to our friends and family; doesn’t feel appropriate or safe). I provide a welcoming environment where you can be real about how your struggles are affecting you. A space you can be honest enough to feel seen, heard, and validated. A space where we can work through your deepest hidden burden and speak of the toll it takes to reduce the burden you’re carrying.
Your Suffering is Real
With nervous system dysregulation, the suffering goes beyond the symptoms. It can also cause emotions like shame and guilt around the symptoms as well as limiting what you are able to do or be involved in.
How I Help You to Regulate Your Nervous System
I am trained in treating nervous system dysregulation from multiple approaches. I will work with you to understand your nervous system dysregulation and where it may be coming from.
We will work at reducing your nervous system dysregulation by processing trauma and other underlying reasons for the dysregulation and retraining your nervous system towards improved regulation.
We can get you to a better sense of ease and comfort within your own body. Additionally, we can reduce the symptoms coming from your nervous system dysregulation. You can achieve change and feel more at ease in life.
How Do I Apply My Training and Knowledge to Help You with Your Challenges from Nervous System Dysregulation
Some of the trainings I’ve taken and the techniques I use include:
- EMDR, Internal Family Systems/Parts Work, and other trauma approaches to help you process your trauma, desensitize your traumatic memories, and put your trauma in its place so it doesn’t dysregulate your system so much
- Use psychoeducation to help you understand what may be going on in your nervous system, normalize some of your reactions, reduce the shame, and burdens you may be carrying
- Teach skills (including from CBT, DBT, Mindfulness, and Polyvagal Theory) to help you improve your coping strategies, and give you tools to provide more regulation to your nervous system
- Using tools focused on acceptance, a sense of safety, and self-compassion to help you regulate your nervous system
- Grief therapy to help you process some of the losses you have experienced due to your nervous system dysregulation.
You are not alone in this process, and I can guide you through it. I firmly believe we can work together to reduce your suffering and help you get more out of your life.
Some of the Results that My Clients Have Seen
- Reductions in pain intensity and pain flares
- Reduction in central sensitization and sensitivity to certain stimuli
- Improved coping and more in control of their lives
- Increased awareness and knowledge
- Improved ability to sleep and relax
- Less on-edge and reactive
- Feeling more at ease and a sense of freedom
Take the Next Step and Get More Out of Your Life
Please book a free 15-minute consultation to find out how I can help you with your Nervous System Dysregulation.