Rise Above Betrayal
Betrayal can shatter trust in people, institutions, and even yourself. It can disrupt sleep, drain energy, make it impossible to focus, and impact every area of your life—relationships, work, faith, and community.
If you’ve carried betrayal for too long, you don’t have to carry it alone. I’m Dr. Tina and and betrayal has touched many parts of my life—family, partners, workplaces, and institutions. I know how destabilizing it can be. In the worst cases, it can feel like a bomb has gone off in the life you knew.. destroying your ability to live or earn a living safely. And often times the betrayal shrapnel spreads to your family, friends, work, community or institutions who won't accept your side of the story, and sometimes even pile on the blame, or accuse you of being crazy. All of this can completely undermine your ability to function, your ability to trust, or feel safe. I've written more about the psychology of why our family, friends and community often compound our trauma on the Irooze website here: The Betrayal Bomb: How Narcissistic Abuse Triggers a Lifetime of Compounding Harm.
I’ve figured out how heal and learn to trust again. From my journey and the journeys of my clients, I know you too can heal, rebuild confidence, and move forward with discernment.
My Rise Above Betrayal System is a flexible 8-step framework designed for high achieving women who want to reclaim their power, their ability to trust and enjoy their lives again. The steps are tailored to you; you don’t need every step to move forward.
Step highlights (flexible path):
- Safety: We release barriers to help you sleep, calm your nervous system, and feel anchored
- Understand and Validate: Make sense of the betrayal and why it happened.
- Release the Trauma: Let go of core negative emotions and limiting beliefs
- Rebuild Trust in Safe People: Distinguish trustworthy from unsafe dynamics
- Self-Love and Self-Trust: Build unshakeable self-worth and compassionate self-talk
- Activate Your Inner Guardian (Boundaries): Define and practice boundaries that protect you
- Be Kind with a Spine We discuss strategies and release barriers to making it viable.
- Refine Your Reentry: Integrate changes until you are living life on your own terms.
If want to feel safer, sleep better, and re-enter life with confidence, courage and an open heart, schedule a complimentary consultation. You deserve to have the health and life you love.
Are you struggling to understand why you've been betrayed?
What Dr. Tina's Clients Feel...
From severe childhood abuse to having hope and dreams of a future on her own terms
I went into my sessions with a healthy dose of skepticism and hope. I’ve been dealing with a host of issues for 21 years, numerous hospitalizations for feeling suicidal, rape, an abusive mother, an absent father, self-harm, severe anxiety and depression.
I’ve had the fear of success for much of my life due to the fact that whenever I was healthy and well, it meant more responsibility and pain. Never in the 21 years of counselling, medication and hospitals has anything been able to address that fear. While we worked together for months, I remember one particular session where I went from crying and shaking with fear to being able to smile and laugh. And the greatest thing about it was the fear hasn’t come back. Since then, I notice things are easier to do. I have an easier time taking my medicine and supplements and doing the dishes. I started wanting to do more. I started to have hopes and dreams again. I am enjoying my life again!
Dr. Tina is amazing in so many ways. She’s kind, funny, and intuitive. It has not always been smooth sailing, but Dr. Tina has BEEN THERE and is there walking with you, committed to getting you free and healthy. I’m so very thankful for her! I really wish everyone could try a session with her and see the change themselves. Living life truly doesn’t have to be as hard as it has been. There is hope and relief.
Thank you Dr. Tina – you’re the BEST!
Kate L
"Much faster and less traumatic than EMDR"
Katy Napierski
5 Year pain with brother resolved in 1 session
When I came to Dr. Tina I had issues with my brother/family as well as my boyfriend. I was carrying a lot of pain and resentment towards my brother for something he had done to me around 5 years ago that really hurt. Even though in-person we had made up, I still felt estranged from him and my family.
In my first session with Tina, I was tearing up just telling her about what happened between us. She did her work and my feelings of hurt, pain, and resentment were instantly gone! I had been carrying around this pain for the last 5 years wanting so much to forgive him, but nothing helped. I talked about my feelings to my brother. I did meditation/self-healing, saw counselors, psychics and other energy healers, but the issues always stayed in the back of my mind. In 1 session with Tina, they were gone and have not come back since.
I was holding on to some anger over something that happened early on with my boyfriend. We had supposedly made up, but I’d keep bringing the past up every once in a while and getting angry all over again or I’d say mean things to him and start fights over stupid things.
After working with Dr. Tina my relationship is so different. We rarely ever fight and I don’t bring up the past anymore. When he does something now that used to upset me, I"m now incredibly patient with him and try to understand his feelings better. I’m so much more calm and happy. He’s noticed the changes in me as well. I’m very grateful for the work Dr. Tina has done, it’s pretty miraculous. It works when nothing else will.