If you are currently experiencing...

✧ Living on High Alert: Feeling unsafe in your own skin, easily startled, or waiting for something to go wrong

✧ Intrusive Flashbacks & Nightmares: Being pulled back into painful memories and feeling the exact physical panic of the original event

✧ Emotional Flooding or Numbness: Swinging between intense emotional overwhelm and feeling completely detached from yourself

✧ Deep Shame: Carrying self blame ("It was my fault," "I am broken" or "I am damaged")

Then imagine moving toward...

✧ Embodied Safety: Feeling grounded in your body, trusting yourself in the present moment, and knowing you are safe right now

✧ Feel Less Distress: Neutralizing emotional triggers so memories become ordinary history rather than active threats

✧ Emotional Regulation: Staying centered in your body, feeling your emotions safely, and being able to ride the wave of emotions

✧ Self Compassion & Resilience: Reclaiming your dignity, releasing misplaced guilt, and recognizing your incredible strength

Therapy Could Look Like

✧ Using gentle, evidence based bilateral processes to unhook past overwhelming experiences from your present nervous system, so memories stop feeling like current threats.

✧ Listening to your body’s subtle cues to complete suspended defense mechanisms, allowing held tension, fear, or protective anger to move through and out of your body.

✧ Nurturing robust internal safety and grounding tools so you stay fully in control of your healing pace.

✧ Shifting your core internal narrative such as from "It was my fault" or "I am unsafe" to "I survived, I am whole, and I belong to myself."

© 2026 Elizabeth Ngoc Nguyen, LMFT. All rights reserved.

Elizabeth Ngoc Nguyen, LMFT #149993

elizabeth.nguyen@fruiteatherapy.com

(657) 233-1833

10265 Rockingham Dr Ste 100 PMB 6065

Sacramento, CA 95827-2566

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