As a Holistic Psychotherapist and Certified Complex Trauma Expert, Hillary Straus is fascinated by how people think and why they do what they do. Her healing philosophy is that we are all embodied souls, here to contribute our gifts to the world, and we are all inter-connected, multi-level beings with a conscious mind, unconscious mind, physical body, soul and bio-field.

Working with anxiety and trauma patients, Straus uses somatic and energy psychology techniques to help clients restore balance at each level of their being. She was inspired as they released long-held fears and traumas and moved from significant life disruption to living without debilitating anxiety, fear or PTSD symptoms. It was then that she found her true calling: training other therapists and healers in a mind-body-energy approach. Through teaching, she realized she could expand effective treatment options for the masses.

Straus currently offers speaking and presenting services; transformation sessions utilizing Healing From the Body Level Up (HBLU), meridian tapping and somatic healing techniques; and a 5-day certification HBLU Module 1 training for anyone to use mind-body-energy healing personally

or professionally.

After noticing that the self-help and clinical literature is about managing symptoms rather than resolving underlying nervous system disruptions, Straus decided to reach more people with a book. The Trauma-Driven Anxiety Workbook: Energy Tapping and Somatic Techniques to Soothe Your Nervous System and Restore Balance offers a broad, non-shaming look at the effects of trauma personally and culturally. It helps readers understand how the body and nervous system link past experiences to present reactions, responding as if old events are current. With a step-by-step process for identifying and disconnecting triggers, she hopes this information will help

readers break the cycle of chronic nervous system activation and access meaningful healing.

With more than 200 studies that document the long-term effectiveness of mind-body-energy healing, Straus trusts her book and her trainings will reach adults who struggle with anxiety, phobias, fears, childhood trauma, PTSD and past unhealthy relationships. She knows it is possible

for these people to move beyond fear, nightmares, flashbacks and other life

interruptions and onward to a life of freedom and joy.