Justin Sunseri is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist from California. In his practice, Justin has noticed how trauma has been a constant underlying factor with nearly everyone he has worked with since 2008 - in the public schools, county outpatient clinics, group homes, foster care, juvenile halls and more. Trauma has become the core focus of his professional development, especially the Polyvagal Theory.
Justin also created the podcast along with Mercedes another LMFT, called the Polyvagal Podcast, which he helps educate and assist people in their journey of becoming unstuck, in a way that is easy to understand and utilize.
Topics Covered:
- What the polyvagal theory is and how it applies to your healing journey
- Trauma explained
- Stuck not broken and what this means
- Cues of safety, cues of danger
- Neuroception
- Vagal break
- Co-regulation
- Overeating through the polyvagal lens
- GI issues, gut dysbiosis related to nervous system health and past trauma history
- Psychedelics and ayahuasca through the polyvagal lens and healing
- How to know when you are healing emotional trauma and making progress
- How to improve resilience, optimism and regulate the nervous system through neural exercises- Social engagement, Chanting, Singing, Wind instruments, Slow exhales, resonate breathing to improve HRV, Meditation, Melodic music, Play- a portal that brings people out of hyperactiveness, fear of stillness, and into a hybrid of ventral vagal and sympathetic-holding hands together- mobilization with safety, Psychedelics- to help see the world differently through another perspective, to see the possibilities when it would otherwise be difficult to
- Role of a therapist in navigating trauma
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