Personalised support for Trauma & PTSD
Unresolved trauma and PTSD are rarely just psychological—they profoundly affect your nervous system, gut health, immune function and physical resilience. At Urban Wellness, we offer compassionate, root-cause support for trauma and PTSD, with particular focus on how past and present trauma dysregulate your nervous system and body chemistry, so you can feel safe, grounded and genuinely recovered.
Find out more about our Chronic & Complex Health Package
What the physiological impact of trauma and PTSD can feel like?
For many people, trauma and PTSD symptoms have been present for years—sometimes acknowledged, sometimes dismissed as "you're too sensitive" or "just get over it," sometimes existing alongside chronic health issues that seem unrelated to the original trauma. Others notice symptoms intensify during stressful periods or when facing reminders of past trauma, without realising how profoundly their body is responding and staying "stuck" in protection mode. Or perhaps you've spent years in therapy processing emotions while your nervous system remains hypervigilant, your gut inflamed, and your body disconnected from safety. Many are caught in a relentless loop of avoidance, hyperarousal, physical symptoms and exhaustion—all while their nervous system and immune system remain in constant survival mode. Either way, you do not have to manage this alone.
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Common Physiological Symptoms of Trauma & PTSD
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Muscle tension, jaw clenching or chronic pain with no clear physical cause
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Heart palpitations, chest tightness or difficulty breathing
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Trembling, shakiness or feeling "wired" or jittery
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Exaggerated startle response or hypervigilance
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Sleep disruption, nightmares or chronic fatigue
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Difficulty concentrating, brain fog or memory problems
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Stomach pain, nausea, irregular bowels or food sensitivities that worsen with stress
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Frequent infections, chronic inflammation or immune dysregulation
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Flashbacks, intrusive thoughts or emotional numbness (nervous system manifestations)
Many people don't realise these physical symptoms are connected to unresolved trauma—the truth is, trauma lives in the body, and healing requires addressing both the nervous system and these physiological manifestations.
Chronic & Complex Health Conditions
MCAS, Histamine, EDS, Mould, Chronic Fatigue, Trauma & PTSD
Living with long-term, overlapping health issues can feel draining and confusing—especially when you’ve seen multiple professionals and still don’t have clear answers. At Urban Wellness, we specialise in working with midlife women who are navigating chronic or complex conditions that affect both their physical and mental health.
Our focus is on understanding the whole picture: how your symptoms, history, hormones, gut, immune system, nervous system and lived experience all connect. Rather than treating each issue in isolation, we use functional medicine and personalised nutrition to explore what may be driving your ongoing symptoms and how we can gently bring your body back towards balance.
How can functional nutrition help with trauma and PTSD?
At Urban Wellness, we look beyond trauma talk therapy to understand what is happening in your body—and how your nervous system, gut health, immune function and nutritional status are perpetuating trauma symptoms and keeping you stuck. Using a functional medicine approach, we explore:
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Nervous system dysregulation: polyvagal tone, vagal nerve function and your capacity to shift out of fight, flight or freeze responses
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HPA axis (stress hormone) dysfunction and how chronic trauma dysregulates your cortisol, adrenaline and stress response
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Vagus nerve health and your body's ability to sense safety and shift into parasympathetic (rest) states
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Gut-brain axis dysfunction: how trauma disrupts your microbiome, causes dysbiosis and inflammation
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Gut barrier integrity ("leaky gut") and intestinal permeability allowing toxins and pathogens to cross into the bloodstream
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Immune system hyperactivation and chronic inflammation driven by unresolved trauma
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Neurotransmitter imbalances (serotonin, GABA, dopamine) critical for mood, anxiety and emotional regulation
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Blood sugar dysregulation from chronic cortisol elevation and trauma-driven eating patterns
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Nutrient depletion (magnesium, B vitamins, zinc, vitamin D) from prolonged nervous system activation
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Sleep disruption, hypervigilance and the body's inability to achieve genuine rest and recovery
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Chronic pain, muscle tension and somatic (body-held) trauma symptoms
With this deeper picture, we create a holistic, science-backed plan to help:
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Restore vagal tone and nervous system capacity to sense safety and shift out of survival mode
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Heal the gut-brain axis and reduce inflammation driving trauma symptoms
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Rebalance neurotransmitters and restore mood, emotional stability and resilience
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Replenish nutrients depleted by chronic stress and trauma
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Support immune system recovery and reduce chronic inflammation
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Rebuild the mind-body connection and restore your sense of embodiment and safety
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Recover quality sleep, physical comfort and genuine rest
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Feel genuinely safe in your body again and move beyond survival mode
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How we can support you
Start with connection
Book a free, no-pressure discovery call to talk through your trauma history, current symptoms, any co-occurring health conditions and what you're hoping will change. This is a safe, judgment-free space to feel heard—and to explore whether our Chronic & Complex Health Package is the right fit for you.
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Understanding Your Nervous System & Trauma Impact
Your first session is about truly listening to your complete story—not just the trauma, but how it lives in your body. Together, we explore your trauma history, current symptoms and triggers, nervous system responses, sleep quality, gut health and any chronic digestive issues, energy levels, hormonal health, nutrient status, medications, and your body's physical signals of dysregulation. We help you understand how your nervous system, gut and immune system have been working to protect you—and what needs to shift for genuine healing. This whole-person understanding guides what to focus on first.
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Your Personalised Recovery Roadmap
Within 48 hours, you receive a practical, realistic programme tailored to your life and healing capacity, including vagus nerve and nervous system regulation techniques, gut healing and anti-inflammatory nutrition, targeted supplementation (where appropriate), immune system support, stress management and trauma-informed coping tools, hormonal and neurotransmitter rebalancing strategies, and sustainable lifestyle changes that honour your recovery pace. If useful, we may also discuss functional testing such as cortisol assessment, microbiome analysis or immune markers to add more clarity. Your plan evolves as your healing progresses and your capacity increases.
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Ongoing Support & Healing
You are not left to navigate trauma recovery alone or to white-knuckle through without support. We offer flexible support tailored to your needs—whether that's weekly sessions for intensive nervous system and emotional healing work or biweekly sessions as you build resilience and capacity. Follow-up sessions provide accountability, space to process trauma memories and their physical impacts, celebrate progress, adjust strategies for real life, and gently troubleshoot when triggers arise or difficult seasons emerge. Care is collaborative, trauma-informed, compassionate and grounded in the understanding that true trauma recovery requires addressing both the nervous system and the body—recognising that healing from trauma takes time, specialised support and genuine self-compassion, not perfection.
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All our consultations are available online for your convenience, both in the UK & Internationally
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