Send us a text Glenda Z. Villamarín, MA, LCP, is a clinical psychologist, Brainspotting Trainer , and PhD candidate whose work gently weaves together neuroscience, ancestral wisdom, and cultural reflection to support individual and collective healing. She is the author of Cultural Critique and Psychology: Attachment Theory in Ecuador and co-author of Tunkawan: The Path of Wisdom—an invitation to walk with reverence through ancestral teachings and inner transformation. This episode will ...

Send us a text Una Archer is the founder of Help Your Child Thrive, where she supports parents using an attachment- and trauma-informed approach. “Attachment" can feel like an abstract and complex concept, and she’s passionate about making it accessible, turning theory and research into simple, everyday steps that help parents feel more confident and connected with their children. In this episode, you can hear Una describe her attuned approach in establishing a framework with the child ...

This short episode is an important message in our time. It is taken from a recent production that is core to his trainings, writing and healing retreats. Mark speaks from the heart about the essence of healing and in this brief snapshot, covers key concepts that have been subjugated and marginalised in so much therapy and healing work. Through this narration, we can remind ourselves of the relationship between the person and the psyche, the importance of ritual and ceremony,...

Welcome to a captivating special edition of the Awe in Trauma podcast!In this episode, fittingly titled "Question Mark," we unlock powerful insights through a thought-provoking Q&A session with leading experts. As breakthroughs in neurobiology, neuropsychology, spirituality, and healing reshape our understanding of trauma and human suffering, the need for a fresh, holistic framework has never been greater.Contributors in this episode include top professionals (links below) from the fields...

Dr. Adam O'Brien is an Approved Brainspotting Consultant and special topics trainer. He is a specialist in trauma, dissociation, addiction, recovery, and trauma or memory resolution. His passion is educating on healing through Addiction as Dissociation Model and research, helping others walk the Path of the Wounded Healer, Recovery research, advocating for psychedelic medicine and psychedelic research, and freeing the hearts and minds of audiences by activating states of healing together with...

A fascinating episode with Hamaima who is a Shamanic Practitioner, Musician, Sound Healer and New Earth Guide with many years of experience in holding space for ceremonies and retreats world wide. In her work she combines ancient practices from different spiritual traditions to guide and empower. In this episode Hamiama approaches healing from ma both a more traditional approach through her earlier years in Social Work to her more recent developments in working with indigenous tribes, p...

Dr Melanie Young is a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Boulder, Colorado. Melanie is a senior Brainspotting (BSP) trainer, consultant and certified Brainspotting therapist. She assists individuals and couples with relationships, losses, and grief. Melanie helps navigate the challenges around brain injuries, ADD, pain, illness, and phobias. Specialties also include working with seniors, their families, and caregivers. She uses BSP as a tool to help heal trauma, inc...

This final section of the mini-series is short in length but deep in importance. Damir explains how societal changes globally illustrates to the brain-wise observer how our systems of perception are products of our implicit systems of prediction. These come from our memory systems and a lifetime of experiences. In other words, believing is perceiving. Extraneous events unfolding in the world continue to display how there are those that can tolerate and integrate n...

In part 2 of this mini-series Damir explains the multi-dimensional functionality of the brain and the essential understanding that it's HOW we attend that completely changes what comes into manifestation. We take a moment to understand the gravity of this idea as arbiters of the reality within which we reside. From this position Damir describes how early and abusive experiences can drastically shape how a person's brain is sculpted and how this can impact on their relationship wit...

In part 1 of this 3 part mini-series, (double doctor in the brain) Dr Damir Delmonte illustrates to us how to position our understanding of the brain in this phenomenally beautiful exploration of how and who we think we are. Damir sets the frame for this 3 part series though attending to the levels of consciousness, subjective qualia, the pathways of the polyvagal process, and all in an evolutionary context of 700 million years. This episode is a beautifully humble and incredibly ...

This is part 2 of a 2 part series. In this episode, Dr David Grand, founder and developer of Brainspotting Therapy gives a deep and insightful take on the implicit restrictions that organise our inner worlds. Drawing on his own developments as a therapist and from neuroscience, we are invited to appreciate the healing power through the lens of the Neuroexperiential Model. An alternative yet refreshingly humble and inclusive approach to therapy that is available to us throug...

This is part 1 of a 2 part series and an episode that is a little different from previous ones. We could not resist sharing with you some fascinating insights from David Grand, the founder and developer of the remarkable Brainspotting Therapy. In this episode you'll experience 3 tantalising clips from a recent Brainspotting Phase 4 training that David presented in conversation with Mark Grixti and a remarkable group from the Brainspotting community. This episode takes a prof...

Kerry is the Founder and CEO, Lightwork: A charity with a mission to give everyone the knowledge, tools and skills to sail through life’s storms, flourish and thrive. She has more than 20 years frontline experience supporting people through emotional crises, life transitions and trauma recovery. Kerry has worked in residential and community support with Women's Aid, Simon Community and Community Family Support Teams. Accredited by CPCAB and QQI as a life coach, she is a Brainspott...

Due to popular demand we have Caroline Strawson back for another illuminating conversation. Caroline is a therapist, coach, author, podcaster and trainer specialising in working with survivors of narcissistic abuse and domestic violence. She speaks passionately and plainly about the importance of a non-pejorative understanding of narcissism, approaching the issue from a attachment aware, inter-personal, parts and body-based perspective. In this episode you'll hear an open an...

This delightful conversation with Marta Rubio explores deep into the labyrinth of the human psyche. Marta is an actor, director, yoga teacher and Gestalt therapist. Her role in all of these domains is to move beyond the ego and the multitude of masks that we adopt in order to move closer to the true spiritual self to ameliorate connection and expression. She shares how her fascinating career in performance has facilitated a journey into all parts of the human condition, incl...

This is a fascinating episode for all those that are truly interested in approaches to healing. Sometimes I hear the question, "what is the mechanism for true healing?" I wonder if this question takes us further from the truth that we are seeking to discover. Sometimes we have to go backwards before we an go forwards. In this episode Pablo's expertise in Eastern approaches to healing provide the scaffold for all things sacred in contemporary approaches to therapy. Pablo is a...

My guest this episode is Brooke Randolph, author, speaker, and trainer. She specialities are Adoption, Brainspotting, relationships, and developmental trauma. She's a a certified Imago Relationship Therapist, a Certified Brainspotting Trainer & Consultant, and coordinator for the groups Brainspotting Indy and Brainspotting with Adoption.In this episode it is fascinating to hear how Brooke gives first hand insights into the complexity of adoption and childhood attachment trauma. ...

Wow this episode is going to be music to your ears! I had the honour of hosting another episode with David Grand, Founder and Developer of Brainspotting Therapy. In recent years there has been an explosion in ‘parts work’ in psychotherapy, coaching and associated healing approaches. In this episode David explores the relationships between explicit and implicit parts. Within the realms of the all-important uncertainty, he proposes an explicit, rational and identifiable, left ...

This episode is a wonderful exploration into the immense natural inter-relational power of healing with horses. Mary Joy is an equine facilitated psycho traumatologist working with horses psychotherapeutically with a range of people including, children, adults and families. She facilitates such therapy with war veterans too and others with PTSD. In this episode we get a first hand sense of how Mary-Joy initially became captivated with equine therapy as she explored deeper he...

In this episode I am joined by Noula, an amazing artist, psychotherapist, author and Brainspotting Trainer. Noula embodies her playful and creative approaches to healing as she explains how the arts and creativity can be accessed to reorient from positions of control, rigidity and stuckness to an open flow state that is paramount to deep brain and body, emotional recovery. We discuss the way one can 'allow' the brain to engage and operate differently through art to explore the pat...