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Emotional Reset Process
The Emotional Reset Process is a gentle, whole-person approach to nervous system regulation, designed to help the body shift out of stress and survival mode and into greater calm, clarity, and ease. It is especially supportive for people experiencing burnout, emotional overwhelm, trauma patterns, persistent tension, sleep disruption, or the sense that their system can’t fully switch off.
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Drawing on 26 years of holistic clinical experience, this work combines Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) therapy with a structured emotional and energy-based process to support deep regulation and repair.
Sessions focus on calming the stress response and helping clear bioenergetic imprints the body may still be holding, so internal “alarm signals” reduce and the system can begin to settle.
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As the body receives the signal of safety, its own healing capacity can re-engage. The intention is to support natural repair and restoration, and to help clients feel steadier, more resilient, and more at home within themselves.
Who is this work for?
This approach is for people recovering from trauma of any sort, as well as those who feel their body is stuck in survival mode after prolonged stress, burnout, grief, or ongoing life pressure.
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Many people describe this state as wired but tired, emotionally reactive, numb, anxious, flat, foggy, or unable to truly rest. Sleep may be disrupted. The mind may be stuck in a loop.
The chest, throat, or gut may feel tight or unsettled.
It can also be helpful when traumatic or stressful experiences have left an imprint in the body, contributing to ongoing pain, tension, fatigue, or a sense of incomplete healing.
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This work is particularly suited to people who feel they’ve been doing all the “right things,” yet still feel blocked or stuck. It offers a supportive next step when progress has stalled and the system needs deeper regulation to move forward.
The Biography in your Biology
Your life experiences don’t only affect you emotionally. They can be recorded in the body. The nervous system learns from what you’ve lived through and adapts in ways that influence stress signalling, immune tone, hormone rhythms, muscle tension, breathing patterns, sleep quality, and even how efficiently cells produce and use energy.
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Over time, repeated stress, trauma, grief, conflict, or chronic overload can become “normal” for the body. Even when the original events are long past, the system may keep responding as if it still needs to stay on guard. This can shape symptoms, sensitivity, resilience, and the capacity to fully recover.
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A layer we often don’t consider is ancestry
Many people have never thought to ask: what have my ancestors been through?
History includes war, famine, displacement, poverty, loss, and ongoing fear. You are genetically linked to your lineage, and what previous generations endured can sometimes echo forward as inherited stress patterns. These can show up as vigilance, scarcity, dread, shutdown, or an ongoing sense of threat that doesn’t make logical sense in the present.
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This can be understood through family conditioning, nervous system patterning, and potentially epigenetic signalling. In simple terms, the body may carry “unfinished” stress responses forward until they are processed and resolved. Sometimes the burden isn’t only personal. It can be inherited.
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What happens when these imprints resolve
When biographical and inherited patterns are finally brought into awareness and cleared, the body can receive a new signal: it is safe now. When that happens, long-held bracing can soften, regulation can return, and the system can change in ways that feel surprisingly deep. Many people describe a sense of peace, relief, and internal freedom they didn’t realise they were missing.
This can be hard to conceptualise until it’s experienced. But when progress isn’t shifting with the usual tools, this may be the level of healing the body is asking for.
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When the past isn't really in the past
Some of these concepts may seem unfamiliar at first. Yet after years of clinical experience, the outcomes seen through this work are often deeply insightful, and can leave both client and practitioner surprised by what is held onto, and how strongly the past can continue to shape the present, even across generations.
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In this work, it is common to see the body holding stress patterns long after the conscious mind has moved on. When these patterns are brought into awareness, and the nervous system receives a clearer signal of safety to resolve the energetic conflict, physiological and emotional shifts can follow. For many people, the change feels both profound and deeply relieving.
The Cell Danger Response
In simple terms, anything that keeps the nervous system out of balance can interfere with healing. It may be physical, mental, emotional, historical, or something a person experiences in their energy. The category matters less than the effect: the body is bracing, stress chemistry stays elevated, and the system remains on alert.
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When the system stays in this state, the body is more likely to remain stuck in a protective pattern often described as the Cell Danger Response. In this mode, cells reduce normal communication and redirect energy toward defence rather than repair.
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When the brain receives a clearer signal of safety, regulation can return. Clearing unconscious imprints that keep the system scanning for danger supports this shift, helping the body move out of protection and back toward restoration.
PolyVagal Regulation
When viewed from the perspective of these two clinically relevant frameworks:, the effects of the Emotional Reset Process make a lot of sense.
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Vagal regulation - seat of the Autonomic Nervous System
The vagus nerve and autonomic nervous system are the silent regulators of all the body's systems. It is constantly scan for safety or danger. When the system perceives safety, the body can rest, digest, sleep, think clearly, and repair. When danger is perceived, the body shifts into fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown. Over time, this can affect mood, energy, pain, digestion, immunity, and resilience.
Cell Danger Response (a protective state)
When the body perceives ongoing threat, cells can shift into a protective metabolic and immune state that prioritises survival over repair. This can contribute to fatigue, inflammation, pain sensitivity, reduced recovery, brain fog, low mood, and chronic stress patterns. The Emotional Reset Process is designed to reduce perceived threat signals and support a return to regulation and restoration.
What to Expect
After an discussion about what you are wanting help with, client are invited to s lie down fully clothed on a treatment table. Warm towel applicators are placed on the body and gentle FSM microcurrent frequencies are applied to help calm the central nervous system and support a sense of internal safety and regulation to the body.
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While FSM is running, the practitioner undertakes the Body Code and Emotion Code process to identify what the body is prioritising to clear.
Toward the end of the session, the findings are discussed in a simple, practical way. An energy-clearing process is then used to release the identified energetic imprints, and a supportive new “program” is put in place to help the body integrate the change and move forward with greater stability.
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How many sessions?
Care is usually offered as a short treatment series of three to four sessions, depending on the complexity of what you are experiencing.
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Working in a series gives the body time to respond, and allows the practitioner to follow your system’s priorities as change happens in layers. It also supports integration between sessions, which can make the shifts feel steadier and more lasting.
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For more complex or long-standing concerns, a few short series spaced over time can be a supportive and deeply restorative way to work.
Bio-energetic Reverberations
The brainstem and cerebellum are designed to keep you safe. They constantly scan for patterns that could signal danger, and they respond automatically. They don’t usually announce what they’re reacting to. You simply feel the effects, such as tightness in the chest, a hair-trigger stress response in relationships, an underlying sense of fear or anxiety, or feeling uncomfortable without knowing why.
Sometimes the system needs a reset. Like clearing old “cookies” and outdated background programs, this work can help the nervous system let go of old threat patterns and return to a calmer, more regulated baseline.
Types of patterns this work may uncover
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Emotional imprints and emotional reverberations
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Heart-wall style protection (guarding, numbness, difficulty receiving)
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Protective parts and internal saboteurs (perfectionism, people-pleasing, hyper-independence)
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Unhelpful beliefs and identity rules (“I’m not safe,” “I must stay in control,” “I’m responsible for everyone”)
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Relational stress residue and boundary stress (feeling drained or overly impacted by others)
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Childhood protections you are unaware of
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Family-line and ancestral stress themes (scarcity, hypervigilance, grief, responsibility)
Treatment Experiences
Everyone's experience is different in these sessions. The layer the body feels safe to clear is generally unpredictable, but once the holding pattern is released, energy moves again, and the body will respond to this in any number of ways.
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Responses vary, but common experiences may include:
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More centred and calm
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Less internal dialogue and agitation
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Quieting of the 'monkey mind'
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Reduced emotional reactivity
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Easier to wind-down in the evenings
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Less tension in the chest, jaw, belly, shoulders, and throat
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Less triggered by things
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Less road rage
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More stable energy
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Reduced sense of “tired and wired”
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Clearer thinking and less brain fog
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A sense of improved resilience
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An improved sense of internal safety
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Better personal boundaries and self-connection
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Easing of grief and despair
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Calming of heart and body heaviness & pressure
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An improved sense of optimism
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Relaxation of the muscular system, less tissue 'guarding'
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Improvements in relationship dynamics
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Improved focus and short term memory
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Improvements in a personal sense of inner contentment
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Improved immune resilience
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Feeling lighter, calmer and more stabile inside
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Improved sleep quality and quantity
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Less worry, stress and tension
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Better circulation and wound healing
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Better digestion
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Less body pain
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Every session is different. No client gets the same treatment or the same results, sessions are led by the body's innate intelligence, working this way allows us to tune in and respond respectfully to what the body is asking for. ​
Collaborative Care
This work integrates well with other therapies and can often help them work more effectively by supporting nervous system regulation, reducing overall stress load, and improving the body’s capacity to repair and respond.
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Collaboration is welcomed and handled respectfully with medical, physiotherapy, and psychotherapy practitioners. The purpose of this work is to calm and stabilise the nervous system in support of improved healing and wellbeing.
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It can complement care such as chiropractic, physiotherapy, medical treatment, post-surgical recovery, lymphatic drainage, post-cancer recovery support, psychotherapy, occupational therapy, and more.
Many clients find it adds a valuable new layer to their internal experience, supporting steadier progress with their primary practitioner and helping them move forward with greater clarity and intention.
This work is complementary and is not a substitute for medical or psychological care with your primary practitioners.
