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BWRT: A Breakthrough in Trauma Healing

BrainWorking Recursive Therapy is a revolutionary therapeutic approach designed to help individuals overcome trauma quickly and effectively. Developed by Terence Watts, BWRT uses the brain’s natural processes to interrupt negative patterns before they manifest into emotional distress. It is especially beneficial for trauma survivors because it can bring about profound change in a significantly shorter time than many traditional therapies.

How BWRT Works

Understanding the Brain’s Response to Trauma Trauma triggers automatic reactions in the brain, particularly in the limbic system, where emotional responses are generated. When we experience trauma, the brain reacts almost instantly, long before the conscious mind has a chance to intervene. This automatic response often leads to recurring emotional distress, anxiety, and flashbacks.
The Core Principle of BWRT BWRT capitalizes on the brain’s lightning-fast response system. The therapy interrupts the brain’s usual reaction to traumatic triggers, working at the subconscious level to halt negative responses before they fully emerge. This is done through guided visualization and deep mental focus, allowing the brain to rewire its response to the trauma.
How It’s Done During a BWRT session, the therapist guides the client into recalling a distressing situation. However, before the brain can produce its habitual emotional response, the therapist helps the client redirect the brain’s focus toward a new, non-distressing outcome. Over time, the brain rewires itself to react differently to trauma-related memories, effectively neutralizing the emotional pain associated with them.

Why BWRT Is Different

Fast Results: Unlike therapies that require long-term exploration of trauma, BWRT often yields results in just a few sessions. Clients frequently report significant relief from trauma-related symptoms within a matter of weeks, if not sooner.
Non-Invasive: BWRT doesn’t require clients to relive their trauma in detail or talk through it extensively. This makes it especially appealing for those who may find traditional talk therapies too overwhelming or emotionally exhausting.
Direct Rewiring of the Brain: By working with the brain’s natural processes, BWRT directly rewires emotional responses at their root. This allows clients to bypass the prolonged, conscious effort required in many cognitive therapies.

The Power of BWRT for Trauma

It is powerful because it targets trauma at the neurological level. Trauma responses are often hardwired into the brain, making traditional therapeutic approaches lengthy. BWRT, however, changes the brain’s response patterns almost immediately, allowing individuals to heal more quickly.

Conclusion

For those struggling with trauma, BWRT offers a faster, more efficient path to healing. By interrupting the brain’s automatic emotional responses, this innovative therapy enables profound transformation without the need to revisit painful memories in depth. This therapy is a game-changer, helping trauma survivors reclaim control over their lives with remarkable speed.

How fast is BWRT?

BWRT (BrainWorking Recursive Therapy) is known for its rapid results, often producing significant changes within just one to a few sessions. Unlike traditional therapies that may take months or years, BWRT can bring about noticeable improvements in a much shorter timeframe—sometimes within a few weeks.

Many clients report a reduction in trauma symptoms, anxiety, or emotional distress after just one session, while more complex issues may take two to four sessions for full resolution. Its speed is due to its ability to work directly with the brain’s automatic response system, rewiring emotional reactions almost instantly without requiring prolonged processing of the traumatic event.

Take Control of Your Healing Today

If you’re ready to break free from the weight of trauma and reclaim your life, BWRT offers the fast, effective solution you’ve been searching for. Don’t let painful memories continue to hold you back—experience the power of BWRT and see results in just a few sessions.

Book your consultation now and start your journey toward lasting emotional freedom!

BWRT – Rehearsal, Repetition and Practice

The old adage of “practice makes perfect” has a connection to a new therapy which is called Brain Working Recursive Therapy®.

When we try to learn something new we practice it over and over again until it becomes second-nature to us. An example of this can be learning to drive a car. When we first attempt to use the gas pedal, brake, clutch to change gear, steering wheel, indicators and mirrors it can all seem too much.

However through gradual rehearsal and repetition of what we need to master (eg. clutch control for a hill start) and many more lessons of practice, we get more competent at driving. Our body responds more appropriately to events (stimuli) around us as we drive the car. Our confidence grows and our successes inspire us. The end result is a new network of neural pathways that enable us to be competent drivers.

BWRT® uses the same idea of learning a new way of reacting and behaving via repetition, rehearsal and reflection on successes. In doing so the brain provides a new neural pathway network. The only difference is that rather than acquiring a new behaviour such as driving, it is about changing an undesired behaviour in favour of a better behaviour.

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BWRT – Brain Working Recursive Therapy

When you understand how neural pathways are created in the brain, you get a front row seat for truly comprehending how to let go of habits. Neural pathways are like super highways of nerve cells that transmit messages. You travel over the superhighway many times, and the pathway becomes more and more solid. The hopeful fact, however, is that the brain is always changing and you can forge new pathways and create new habits. That’s called the neuro plasticity of the brain.

Most therapies work intangible elements of the Conscious, Subconscious and even the Unconscious mind.

BWRT – Brain working recursive therapy is a relatively new therapy. BWRT is different in that it actually uses the physical brain to make changes. When the brain is bombarded with information all the time, there is so much information that is stimulating the brain, that we find it impossibly at times on a conscious level to keep up. Much of our life events processing happens in the background in our subconscious mind. It’s similar to a computer. We use the keypad and observe the screen but don’t get involved with how the information from the screen or our typing is being processed. The brain is a master in processing loads of information.

Although it might seem like the brain is making judgements about how to be and react to situations, logic doesn’t come into it.

For example someone who has a fear for spiders knows that most spiders are harmless but the brain doesn’t accept this logic and results in a person being anxious and sends loads of adrenaline round their body. The brain makes the body respond to a threat by making you anxious and triggering the flight or fight response. With either response your heart beat will rise and you body is preparing to take action.

The brain looks for common features to any stimulus. It does this so it know how it should get the person to react. If it finds similar features from a past situation where you felt vulnerable, in danger, awkward, uncomfortable, embarrassed or threatened, it will make you react in a way to protect you.

Brain Working Recursive Therapy

Using scientific research on the brain’s natural activity, BWRT assists in changing the thought patterns at the instinctual level, when the changes are made at this level -The Reptilian complex and Paleomammalian complex, the instinctual behaviour changes.

Brain Working Recursive Therapy uses the way the brain processes information to change unwanted habits, urges and behaviours into more resourceful and healthier ways of being.

Conventional therapies require that you remember the original event that led to the trauma. With BWRT all that is needed is to know the strongest memory of that unwanted reaction. The strongest memory might be the very first time but equally it might be a more recent repetition of the unwanted response.

Although you are encouraged to close your eyes you are fully conscious during BWRT and are aware of what is happening.

BWRT – Brain working recursive therapy Practitioner

Christel Maritz is an experienced therapist and certified Brain Working Recursive Therapy practitioner. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or for more information about how BWRT will aid you into a world of emotional safety.