"I am a licensed professional counselor and registered yoga instructor, specializing in trauma" -Patricia O. Cummings, MS, NCC, LPC

As a 200hr yoga instructor, certified in trauma yoga, Tricia meets clients both in office and on the mat.

"The meditative aspect of trauma-informed yoga changes the way you react to triggers and gives you skills to manage physical or emotional symptoms that occur due to long-lasting trauma...Yoga may help with emotional stability and assist in changing your physiology so that physical symptoms are lessened. It gets you out of the amygdala, the part of the brain where a lot of your fear response is located. In stead, you're focusing on the here and now and using your pre-frontal cortex, so it's like you're moving away from the fear while being mindful"

(US NEWS and WORLD REPORT)