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Bonnie Brusky, English-speaking Clinical Psychologist, Systemic Family Therapist, and Somatic Psychotherapist in Bordeaux<\/p>\n

I offer trauma-informed, body-centered therapy to help individuals, couples, and families feel a deeper connection to themselves and others.<\/p><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Bonnie Brusky, English-speaking Clinical Psychologist, Systemic Family Therapist, and Somatic Psychotherapist in Bordeaux<\/p>\n

I offer trauma-informed, body-centered therapy to help individuals, couples, and families feel a deeper connection to themselves and others.<\/p><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Therapy services and areas of focus<\/h3><\/h2><\/div>

People come to me with a wide range of concerns. Here are some of the issues I most commonly support:<\/h3><\/div>
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Trauma (PTSD) & Complex Trauma (C-PTSD)<\/p><\/h3><\/div>

For many, trauma is not one event \u2014 it\u2019s a childhood environment, a relationship, a pattern in the body. We work slowly and gently, at the pace your nervous system can tolerate.

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Dissociation & integration of altered states of consciousness<\/p><\/h3><\/div>

Whether it feels like spacing out, losing time, feeling unreal, or being disconnected from your body, induced by an event or psychedelics, we work on understanding these protective mechanisms with compassion, not shame.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Emotional instability & relational patterns<\/p><\/h3><\/div>

If big feelings make relationships feel hard, unpredictable or overwhelming, we explore the roots of these emotions and build capacity for regulation and connection.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Depression & anxiety<\/p><\/h3><\/div>

We work with both the mind and the body: what you think, how you feel, and how your nervous system responds.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Identity questions<\/h3><\/div>

Cultural identity (third-culture, multilingual, expatriation, immigration)<\/p>\n

Sexual orientation<\/p>\n

Gender identity<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Grief & loss<\/p><\/h3><\/div>

Whether recent or distant, grief lives in the body. Therapy offers space to move through it, rather than around it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Life transitions<\/p><\/h3><\/div>

Breakups, parenthood, adolescence, career shifts, separation, expatriation, returning \u201chome,\u201d menopause \u2014 the moments that stretch us.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Scam survivors & betrayal trauma<\/p><\/h3><\/div>

For people who\u2019ve been emotionally, financially or psychologically exploited. These experiences often carry shame and confusion \u2014 therapy helps you untangle what happened and rebuild trust in yourself.

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About me<\/p><\/h2><\/div>

I came to my role as somatic psychotherapist later in life, but not by chance. I majored in psychology in college. It felt like the obvious thing to do and the most likely path to help understand my own emotional instability and fragile self-esteem. I didn\u2019t continue after undergrad: a research internship brought me to Cameroon, and set me on a career in international development.<\/p>\n

For 25 years, I lived and worked in various countries around the world. But the emotional instability and fragile self-esteem did not go away. As I founded and started raising my own family, my emotional fault lines just felt bigger. And with children in my charge, the stakes felt much higher.<\/p>\n

I did a lot of therapy, and it helped. But it was once I started bringing the body more intentionally into therapeutic work that the change process deepened. An embodied sense of healing.<\/p>\n

I went back to school, to become a guide for others. Not because I know more, but because I\u2019ve walked the path.<\/p>\n

My academic journey has given me valuable knowledge, but my deepest training has come through living as a human: unraveling my own family\u2019s dynamics, working through my trauma, getting to know my internal parts, sustaining relationships with loved ones and connecting with people in my community.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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<\/i><\/i><\/span>My training<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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\u2022 Sensorimotor psychotherapy<\/span>
\n\u2013 level 1 (2023) et level 2 (2025\/26),<\/span>
\nSensorimotor, Psychotherapy Institute<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Lifespan Integration Therapy<\/span>
\n\u2013 niveaux 1 et 2 (2024), Institut Double H\u00e9lix<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Master’s in Clinical Psychology and<\/span>
\nIntegrative Psychopathology<\/span>
\n\u2013\u00a0Areas of research: Dissociation, CPTSD<\/span>
\nand Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy<\/span>
\n\u2013\u00a0Universit\u00e9 de Bordeaux (2024)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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\u2022 Yoga Teacher Training 200h (Yoga Alliance)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Cyril Moreau, Bordeaux (2023)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Certification in Systemic Family Therapy<\/span>
\n\u2013 Institut Michel Montaigne (2023)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Master’s in International Development<\/span>
\n\u2013\u00a0Universit\u00e9 de la Sorbonne (1998)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 BA in Psychology, BA in Women\u2019s Studies<\/span>
\n\u2013\u00a0University of Wisconsin-Madison (1995)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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About me<\/p><\/h2><\/div>

I came to my role as somatic psychotherapist later in life, but not by chance. I majored in psychology in college. It felt like the obvious thing to do and the most likely path to help understand my own emotional instability and fragile self-esteem. I didn\u2019t continue after undergrad: a research internship brought me to Cameroon, and set me on a career in international development.<\/p>\n

For 25 years, I lived and worked in various countries around the world. But the emotional instability and fragile self-esteem did not go away. When I started my own family, my emotional fault lines just felt bigger. And with children in my charge, the stakes felt much higher.<\/p>\n

I did a lot of therapy, and it helped. But it was once I started bringing the body more intentionally into therapeutic work that the change process deepened. An embodied sense of healing.<\/p>\n

I went back to school to become a guide for others. Not because I know more, but because I\u2019ve walked the path.<\/p>\n

My academic journey has given me valuable knowledge, but my deepest training has come through living as a human: unraveling my own family\u2019s dynamics, working through my trauma, getting to know my internal parts, sustaining relationships with loved ones and connecting with people in my community.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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<\/i><\/i><\/span>My training<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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\u2022 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy<\/span>

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\u2013 level 1 (2023) and level 2 (2025\/26),<\/span>
\nSensorimotor, Psychotherapy Institute<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Lifespan Integration Therapy<\/span>
\n\u2013 levels 1 et 2 (2024), Institut Double H\u00e9lix<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Master’s in Clinical Psychology and<\/span>
\nIntegrative Psychopathology<\/span>
\n\u2013\u00a0Areas of research: Dissociation, CPTSD<\/span>
\nand Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy<\/span>
\n\u2013\u00a0Universit\u00e9 de Bordeaux (2024)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

\u2022 Yoga Teacher Training 200 hrs (Yoga Alliance)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Cyril Moreau, Bordeaux (2023)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Certification in Systemic Family Therapy<\/span>
\n\u2013 Institut Michel Montaigne (2023)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Master’s in International Development<\/span>
\n\u2013\u00a0Universit\u00e9 de la Sorbonne (1998)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology & Women\u2019s Studies<\/span>
\n\u2013\u00a0University of Wisconsin-Madison (1995)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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My approach<\/p><\/h2><\/div>

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My approach is body-centered, collaborative, and deeply trauma-informed. I draw from:<\/p>\n