Danny Living, MSW, RRT

Licensed Social Worker
Teletherapy

My therapeutic practice focuses on trauma therapy, addiction, mindfulness, creative visualization, meditation, and self-acceptance. I have a Master of Social Work from Aurora University, and am a certified Rapid Resolution Therapist.

My Vine Counseling Center practice includes limited weekend appointments for those looking for help with chronic “stuckness” from patterns stemming from trauma, which thinking about or talking about hasn’t helped. Read more about the process below. The two-hour sessions are conducted in person and incorporate the healing tones of the Tibetan singing bowl, which help relax the body and mind and deepen and solidify insights and shifts during and after the session. Sound has been proven to enhance learning, concentration, and mental and physical health, creating a rich, powerful experience.

How Does Memory Reconsolidation Therapy (MRT) Work? Will I Have to Tell My Stories? Does Talking Help? Maybe Not…

Each time you tell a story describing a painful memory or stressful situation, your mind supplies you with negative words, brief images, sounds, emotions, and beliefs.

You could spend hours telling upsetting stories or describing stressful situations, and the more you talked, the more upset you would probably become. So, does talking help?

If I Can’t Tell the Stories, How Does MRT Work?

MRT focuses on patterns across a lifetime of stories and situations, rather than on unpacking and working on just one.

The experience is based on the principles of MRT but eliminates the pain of retelling stories, the need to hold back stories that are too painful to tell, and the “leaving other stories on the table” at the end of the session. The experience addresses patterns—past patterns, their “meaning,” and their uses. It uses your intellectual curiosity to uncover the emotional aftermath of these patterns, their origins, and to eliminate limiting beliefs attached to them, leaving you feeling lighter, calmer, more hopeful, and clearer.

What Can Happen After I’ve Done MRT?

The story, the emotions, and the meaning are like a round peg that fits into a hole in the mind. When the story is thought of–either deliberately or if something triggers or reminds you of the memory–you re-feel the emotions and replay the meaning and unresolved feelings. You learn to associate the memory with pain and try not to think about it or talk about it.

MRT lets you separate the emotions, the meaning, and the story into parts, edit the meaning by adding information, which changes the shape of the memory peg, causing it to not “fit” into the hole in the mind and new neural paths are formed in the brain, allowing you to be able to recall the memory, but with new meaning and without the negative emotions of anger or shame.

Each day, I hope my work will help others and honor the gifts my interests, passion, and experience have given me.

Populations Served: Adults

Pronouns: He/Him/His