Talk Trauma - Devin Brooks

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Complex Trauma Specialist
Relational, somatic, neurobiological
Non-pathologising
Human-to-human therapy
🌈 Q***r | Non-binary
Work with me ⤵︎
https://linktr.ee/talktrauma.devinbrooks

🔥 Healthy relationships are not relationships without rupture.They are relationships where two people slowly learn one a...
28/05/2026

🔥 Healthy relationships are not relationships without rupture.

They are relationships where two people slowly learn one another over time.

Safety is not something someone simply “is.” It is built through care, consistency, honesty, curiosity, and repair.

If you’ve lived through complex trauma, it can be easy to assume that disappointment, misunderstanding, conflict, or triggers mean a relationship is unsafe. But often these moments become opportunities to better understand ourselves, one another, and what helps connection deepen.

🌿 If you’re looking for support with complex trauma healing, I offer specialised 1:1 online therapy sessions, as well as affordable and accessible somatic healing classes designed to help you build greater safety, capacity, and connection.

Visit the link in bio to explore ways of working with me.





Hey… Trauma affects the whole person.Any therapist who believes their approach alone is the complete answer to trauma he...
27/05/2026

Hey… Trauma affects the whole person.

Any therapist who believes their approach alone is the complete answer to trauma healing is likely overlooking the complexity of trauma itself.

I offer 1:1 therapy sessions specialised in complex trauma healing. 🌿 link in bio.

For affordable and accessible complex trauma support access the online somatic body based classes. 💛 link in bio.

More info 👇 Relational trauma changes how we learn to move with others. Not just emotionally, but neurologically and phy...
25/05/2026

More info 👇

Relational trauma changes how we learn to move with others. Not just emotionally, but neurologically and physically too. We begin anticipating, adapting, scanning, protecting, withdrawing, over-giving, or staying hyperaware in ways that once made sense within unsafe or unpredictable relationships.

Healing often asks us to slowly experience something different.

Not perfect relationships. Not conflict-free relationships. But relationships where repair, attunement, consistency, honesty, and mutuality can begin to exist over time. This is rarely comfortable at first. A nervous system shaped by relational harm will often experience unfamiliar care and closeness with uncertainty before safety.

This is why healing relational trauma is not only insight. It is practice.

If you’re wanting support with this process, I offer specialised 1:1 online sessions and an 8-Class Somatic Complex Trauma Series focused on building safety, capacity, and connection in the body. Link in bio.

Some people spend their whole lives offering care to others while feeling deeply uncomfortable receiving it themselves.H...
24/05/2026

Some people spend their whole lives offering care to others while feeling deeply uncomfortable receiving it themselves.

Healing asks us to gently question this relational bias.

It often means slowly building tolerance for relationships that feel different from what the nervous system expects.

There are limited spaces available for new clients- reach out via the link in my bio for more info on 1:1 specialised complex trauma healing sessions. 🌿💛 Apply for your free 15 minute induction chat.

22/05/2026

More info 👇

Trauma attaches to the developmental age in which the trauma occurred. Please check out the past reel on ages 0-6 yrs old. 💛

This reel highlights the important areas in our child development where we begin to differentiate ourselves from our primary attachments and towards our sense of belonging amongst peers and the perception of other adults.

Core developmental trauma wounds from this is stage of childhood evolution may result in feelings of incompetence, unworthiness, not belonging, and the need to control the perception of self.

Explore ways of accessing complex trauma guidance and healing. Visit my bio to know more. 🌿

healing and health MUST integrate connection and community.Connection isn’t something we aim towards, it needs to be the...
22/05/2026

healing and health MUST integrate connection and community.

Connection isn’t something we aim towards, it needs to be the medicine we use to shape the quality of our lives.

Access 1:1 support or online classes through the link in my bio. 💛

Reassurance is not about dependence.It is about giving a person repeated felt experiences of consistency where there onc...
21/05/2026

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.

20/05/2026

Want more info? 👇

So much of what becomes traumatising isn’t just what happened —
it’s that we had to hold the fear, confusion, and pain alone.

When there is no safe other to turn to, the nervous system does what it must to keep us functioning. Dissociation, emotional shutdown, or becoming “strong and independent” were not personality traits — they were protective adaptations in the absence of co-regulation.

Over time, these adaptations shape how we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world. Many people grow into adulthood questioning whether their way of being is truly them — or an identity formed around staying safe, acceptable, and connected.

Healing doesn’t ask us to revisit the pain without support.
It asks for the opposite: to not have to hold it alone anymore.

Being gently witnessed by someone emotionally safe, attuned, and responsive allows the nervous system to soften, integrate, and finally feel what was once too overwhelming to process.

You didn’t “fail” to cope.
You coped without the support you deserved.

If this landed for you, it may be time to find spaces where you don’t have to hold it alone anymore. You’re allowed to have support now.

If you’d like to explore working together 1:1, you can find more details via the link in my bio. 🌿

19/05/2026

Acknowledging that your childhood was traumatising is not a betrayal - it’s your internal truth.

That can create a lot of discomfort as we begin to unravel this as adults.

Access online specialised support with me through the link in my bio. 💛

16/05/2026

🔥 Retraumatisation isn’t always obvious.

It’s a past memory of danger meeting a present experience of danger where the brain reacts by saying “omg this is indeed happening again”.

Confirming and affirming past trauma.

During retraumatisation, it is not about pushing through.

It’s about grounding and stabilisation. Not the time for emotional processing and somatic release.

If you’re ready to work with this properly —
my specialised 1:1 sessions are in the link in bio.

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