I’ve known Tom and Abigail for over a decade and their care has made a profound difference in my personal health and professional life. I have recommended their services to many, and will continue recommending them to everyone who struggles with past and/or present trauma. Their unique, holistic, approach to wellness yields extraordinary results.
I have practiced dentistry for forty years and since 1988 I have done so with a Neuromuscular approach. Patients in a dental setting with head/neck pain require a team approach. A dental appliance is not a magic bullet. In my office Tom, Abigail and myself are that team. Generally, I place an intraoral appliance to decompress the temporal mandibular joint and re-position the mandible. Following placement of the oral appliance Tom and Abigail assess and commence treatment using their own TraumaPractik methodology. As they unravel the body dysfunctions I adjust the oral appliance to maintain a balanced neutral position. My patients are amazed by what TraumaPractik treatment does and by how well Tom and Abigail explain what they are doing. By the conclusion of that first treatment with Tom and Abigail patients are on board 100 percent because they can feel immediate improvement.
Head neck pain is not “psychosomatic” It is definitely somato psychic. The body is telling the brain that there are problems. The body is asking for help. Incorporating TraumaPractik in my dental treatments is absolutely necessary to get permanent healing and allows me to reconstruct the dental arches if necessary.
The concepts and techniques I learned in this course have shifted my preconceived notions about the body. It’s like I’m now working in a parallel universe.
I had a long-standing desire to explore the impact of trauma – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. I wanted to know better how it left its mark and how those remnants could be released. I’ve taken this course twice; I had changed and the course had evolved, too. Packed with insight, information and practical methodologies, Tom and Abigail skilfully created a learning path that allowed me to know myself, others and the nature of trauma much better than I had imagined possible during such a short time. I cannot recommend this more highly or with greater confidence.
I have known Tom for over 20 years. About 14 years ago, while I was a massage therapy student, I woke up one morning with a migraine, but I had a big exam that morning. So I called Tom, emergency can you help? Well he had me in before his first patient, spent a quick 5 minutes adjusting my skull, and I walked out with no pain. I still had all the ‘aura’ symptoms, but I was pain free and clear headed and able to write that final exam [and maintain my GPA].