Hello, I am Roland Bal
I've been working with people recovering from complex trauma and PTSD for nearly 25 years. My approach combines cognitive understanding with somatic work—because healing trauma requires more than just talking about it.
I come from an Osteopathic bodywork background with a focus on working with people experiencing chronic pain. Over time, it became clear that most chronic pain has an emotional component.
Bodywork can only go so far. The emotional residue—the trauma held in the body—needs to be addressed directly.
That's what led me to trauma recovery studies. I maintain a body-oriented approach with psychotherapeutic elements, all rooted in my osteopathic background.
Since 2002, I've helped thousands of people through individual sessions make significant changes in their well-being. My writings on Complex Trauma and PTSD have reached many more, pointing the way toward healing.
I use a cognitive and somatic (body-based) psychotherapeutic approach to treat complex trauma and PTSD. My focus is on teaching you to regulate, process, and contain dissociation, the fight-flight-freeze-please responses, and to relearn boundaries and vulnerability.
This isn't life coaching. It's nervous system work for people who've left the trauma but are still living with the patterns.
Cognitive work without emotional processing doesn't free up the energy to build new systems. Understanding the pattern AND processing the emotional residue held in your body—that's what creates fundamental change at the nervous system level.
I won't sugarcoat this. The work can be messy, and there will be breakdowns before breakthroughs. But it's what actually works.
My primary training is in Cranio-Sacral therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Somatic Emotional Release, Somatic Experiencing, and Developmental Trauma work.
My influences include Jiddu Krishnamurti, Vipassana meditation, and years of working directly with clients.
That said, it's the people I've worked with who've taught me the most. It's connecting, sharing suffering, and touching upon something real that allows us to be more inherently ourselves.
Sincerely,
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