Alice Ditullio

We have the innate capacity to live full and healthy lives. Our bodies and minds have a physiological blueprint and the inner wisdom to experience well-being. My approach to therapy is framed around recovering and developing these natural capacities. Mindfulness techniques and an understanding of neuro-physiology inform my work with clients. Non-judgemental, compassionate presence allows one's inner guidance and natural healing capacity to emerge and inform the therapeutic process. An understanding of nervous system physiology supports a gentle resolution of the symptoms of incomplete trauma responses. I attend carefully to build increasing capacity and resilience in the nervous system, focusing first on stabilizing the strengths and regulation that have supported clients to survive, function and seek help. This developmental, strength-based approach prevents nervous system overload and the risk of re-traumatization. I support the restoration of a functioning system that is no longer stuck in pathways that, while an expression of the body's wisdom at their inception, need to be completed and resolved in order to allow the system to respond and live in the present moment. This process relieves the limiting patterns set by unresolved trauma and allows for new pathways and responses to emerge.