Trauma & nervous system care
PTSD, trauma & somatic dysregulation
Trauma doesn't live only in memory. It lives in the body — in a nervous system that learned to stay on guard, and sometimes forgot how to come back down. Therapy helps with the story. But the body often needs its own form of healing.
At Flourish, we work with the physiological architecture of trauma — the nervous system patterns that keep people stuck in survival long after the threat has passed.
WHO THIS IS FOR
When the body hasn't gotten the message that it's safe
Many people who've experienced trauma do the therapeutic work — and still find their body responding as if the threat is ongoing. That's not a failure of therapy. It's a nervous system that hasn't yet received the safety signal it needs to downregulate.
This may be a fit if you're experiencing:
Chronic fight-or-flight activation or hypervigilance
Freeze, shutdown, or dissociation
Panic that feels physical or cardiac
Emotional flooding or sudden overwhelm
Somatic symptoms without clear medical cause
Sleep disruption, nightmares, or hyperarousal
Feeling unsafe inside your own body sensations
Difficulty completing therapy due to overwhelm
History of complex or relational trauma
Neurodivergent traits alongside trauma history
You will never be required to revisit traumatic memories here. Sessions are paced to your window of tolerance — always.
Why Flourish is different
Trauma care that works through the nervous system
PTSD and trauma responses are neurological events — encoded in the brainstem, the limbic system, the autonomic nervous system. Talk therapy is valuable, but it operates primarily at the cortical level. We work at the subcortical level, where the threat responses are actually stored and fired.
The nervous system heals when it receives consistent, accurate signals of safety. We use specific neurological exercises — vestibular, visual, proprioceptive, and respiratory — to directly input safety information to the brainstem and limbic system. This is how we access the parts of trauma that words can't always reach.
We work with the body's physical trauma responses — the bracing, the breath-holding, the postural collapse, the autonomic dysregulation — as real neurological phenomena. As these patterns are addressed, emotional processing often becomes easier. Body and brain heal together, not separately.
Dr. Benacci is a trauma-informed clinician with lived neurodivergent experience. Sessions are paced to your window of tolerance — never pushing faster than your nervous system can safely integrate. The relationship itself is part of the regulation. You will not be overwhelmed here.
What to expect
Three steps toward lasting change
A thorough, unhurried intake covering your full history — including experiences that shaped your nervous system long before any formal trauma event. We assess your current autonomic state and begin gentle regulatory work in the first session. You will never be asked to revisit traumatic memories here.
We design a protocol around your nervous system's current capacity — not where it should be. Sessions combine hands-on work with specific neurological exercises that expand your window of tolerance over time. At-home practices are calibrated so they support rather than overwhelm.
As regulatory capacity grows, we go deeper — working with the stored physiological patterns of trauma, not just the surface symptoms. Recovery is nonlinear, but it is real. Most patients describe a gradual return to themselves: feeling present, less reactive, safer in their body.
“For the chiropractic skeptics - Flourish is for you! It's care for you as a whole person - mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically. Benacci is top notch. Please let him be a part of your growth journey, you won't regret it.”
— Jordyn S. · Client, Flourish Brain Care
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You deserve to feel safe in your body
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if Flourish Brain Care is the right fit for where you are in your recovery.