Talk Trauma - Devin Brooks

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Complex Trauma Specialist
Relational, somatic, neurobiological
Non-pathologising
Human-to-human therapy
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You don’t need to be “fully healed” before starting a relationship.Complex trauma is relational — and so is healing.Safe...
11/04/2026

You don’t need to be “fully healed” before starting a relationship.
Complex trauma is relational — and so is healing.

Safe, attuned relationships (therapy, friendships, community, intimacy) are where the nervous system learns a new blueprint.

Healing doesn’t come before relationship.
It unfolds within relationship.

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✨ Link in bio for ways of working with me including affordable online classes and 1:1 specialised sessions.

Trauma therapy cannot be reduced to a certification, a protocol, or a modality. 🔥Training can offer important foundation...
13/03/2026

Trauma therapy cannot be reduced to a certification, a protocol, or a modality. 🔥

Training can offer important foundations for understanding trauma presentations and therapeutic approaches.

But the depth of trauma work asks something more of the person sitting in the chair across from you.

Many people seeking trauma therapy have already experienced being dismissed, labelled, or pathologised by professionals who technically had the training, yet struggled to sit beside the complexity of their experience.

Trauma recovery is often nonlinear, emotionally intense, and deeply relational. It asks the therapist to tolerate uncertainty, to move away from rigid application of methods, and to remain present with what is unfolding rather than quickly trying to organise or resolve it.

At its core, trauma therapy is not simply the application of a model. It is the capacity to be a human being in the room while allowing knowledge, experience, and clinical understanding to guide the work quietly in the background.

If you are looking for support with complex trauma, you can explore the ways of working with me through 1:1 sessions and my online somatic trauma classes via the link in bio. 💛

Emotional abuse in childhood is often difficult to recognise from the outside. It rarely leaves visible evidence, and ma...
12/03/2026

Emotional abuse in childhood is often difficult to recognise from the outside.

It rarely leaves visible evidence, and many people grow up in environments where their emotional reality is repeatedly dismissed, minimised, or reframed as something else.

Over time, this can leave a person carrying experiences that were never properly acknowledged. Not by family. Not by the wider environment around them. Sometimes not even by themselves until much later.

Because of this, many adults carry a deep longing for their experience to be recognised as real.

Being believed is not about proving something. It is about having one’s lived experience acknowledged in a way that restores a sense of coherence and dignity.

If this resonates with you, there are a number of ways to work with me through trauma specialised therapy and somatic therapeutic learning spaces.

🌿 Explore 1:1 sessions and online classes via the link in bio.

Complex trauma is not only held in memory or story.It is carried in the nervous system, in relational patterns, and in t...
09/03/2026

Complex trauma is not only held in memory or story.

It is carried in the nervous system, in relational patterns, and in the body.

This is one of the reasons music therapy can be such a powerful therapeutic modality. Through rhythm, synchrony, and emotional expression, music can engage the nervous system directly and create pathways for regulation, expression, and connection.

If you’re interested in exploring this work more deeply, there are a few ways to work with me. As a qualified clinical music therapist I integrate music therapy methods into my work.

You can join my 8-class body-based series on complex trauma, or explore this work in 1:1 therapy sessions.

More information is available through the link in bio.





08/03/2026

Narcissistic parents and the lasting impact of emotional manipulation on our sense of self. 💛



06/03/2026

Have you ever been depressed…

It is common for people with complex trauma to experience fluctuating states of depression low arousal and anxiety hyper arousal.

Feeling numb. Lack of aliveness. Social engagement diminishes. Action feels hard.

It can feel destabilising and overwhelming.

Learning to be with yourself with compassion, gentleness and a sense of self agency during these moments is important.

Acquiring tools and methods to meet and move through these states is something we can all learn.

Link in bio for more. 🌿

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Hyper-independence is often misunderstood.What looks like confidence or capability on the outside can sometimes be a ner...
06/03/2026

Hyper-independence is often misunderstood.

What looks like confidence or capability on the outside can sometimes be a nervous system that learned early that relying on others came with disappointment, resentment, or emotional hurt.

So the system adapts.

Figuring things out alone.
Not asking for help.
Reducing the need for others wherever possible.

These adaptations are intelligent. They developed to reduce the risk of relational pain.

Healing from complex trauma can involve slowly discovering that support, reciprocity, and shared reliance can exist differently than they once did.

If you want to explore this work more deeply, there are different ways of working with me through classes or 1:1 sessions.

Link in bio. 🌿

Many people with complex trauma recognise this pattern.A deep longing for connection.Alongside moments where the nervous...
05/03/2026

Many people with complex trauma recognise this pattern.

A deep longing for connection.
Alongside moments where the nervous system moves toward distance.

This is not a contradiction in character.

It reflects how relational trauma shapes the nervous system’s expectations of safety within connection.

If you’re exploring this pattern in your own life, there are different ways of working with me.

Explore the link in bio to learn more about my somatic complex trauma classes and 1:1 sessions. 🌿





Judith Herman telling us the importance of connection and relationship not only in trauma recovery for individuals and c...
03/03/2026

Judith Herman telling us the importance of connection and relationship not only in trauma recovery for individuals and communities but also for the therapists and health professionals working in these contexts. 💛

Access professional mentorship and supervision with me - link in bio 🌿

When trauma forms within relationship, the nervous system adapts within relationship.What feels safe.What feels unpredic...
02/03/2026

When trauma forms within relationship, the nervous system adapts within relationship.

What feels safe.
What feels unpredictable.
What feels familiar.
What feels threatening.

These are not random reactions.

They are patterned expectations shaped over time.

Complex trauma is not only about dysregulation.
It is about relational prediction.

Healing involves expanding what can feel safe in connection.

If you’re wanting support to gently revise these patterns within a therapeutic relationship, my 1:1 sessions are available via the link in bio.





Reassurance is not about dependence.It is about giving a person repeated felt experiences of consistency where there onc...
26/02/2026

Reassurance is not about dependence.

It is about giving a person repeated felt experiences of consistency where there once was unpredictability.

Over time, what was once scanned for threat can begin to register safety.

If this resonates, there are different ways to work with me — 1:1 sessions and my 8-Class Somatic Complex Trauma Series. Link in bio.

Your rage is allowed! 🔥🔥🔥
25/02/2026

Your rage is allowed! 🔥🔥🔥

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