Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) Therapy in Scottsdale

Deep Brain Reorienting, or DBR, is a trauma therapy that works with the physiological sequence of trauma stored in the brainstem. It works from the bottom up, through body-based responses, instead of managing symptoms from the top down. At Redefine in Scottsdale, DBR is one of more than 20 therapies available to adults across our outpatient programs. Joint Commission accredited.

DBR Therapy

Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) at Redefine in Scottsdale

DBR is a trauma therapy that taps into the brain's natural healing ability by accessing the physiological sequence of trauma stored in the brainstem. At Redefine it belongs to the same trauma family as EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, and IFS. It is available through our partial hospitalization program and our intensive outpatient program. Retreat and individual formats exist too.

Joint Commission Accredited

Adults, Outpatient

Out-of-Network Provider

Bottom up, not top down. DBR avoids top-down symptom management and works through body-based responses instead, starting where the trauma sequence is stored rather than where the symptoms show.
The root event, not the label. DBR focuses less on the clinical diagnosis and more on identifying the root traumatic event or experience underneath it.
Part of a bigger plan. DBR never works alone here. Your clinical team combines it with the other therapies that fit your presentation, in one coordinated plan.

DBR is one modality. It works inside a plan built around you.

How to Start DBR Therapy in Scottsdale

Clinician talking with an adult client during an intake conversation at Redefine Wellness in Scottsdale

Getting Started

Before anything is scheduled, you talk with our team by phone. We go through what has been happening and what you have already tried. A clinical assessment then shapes your plan, including whether DBR belongs in it. Redefine is an out-of-network provider, so verify your benefits before you start.

What happens first

Phone consultation with our clinical team

Clinical assessment before your first day

Benefits verified before you commit

Treatment plan built for your presentation

DBR considered alongside 20+ other therapies

Start date set around your schedule

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Adult client in an individual trauma therapy session at Redefine Wellness in Scottsdale

Trauma Family

DBR sits in the same trauma family as EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, and Internal Family Systems, and Redefine offers all of them. Each works through its own mechanism. Your clinical team picks what fits your presentation, and changes the mix when your response says to.

Trauma therapies offered here

Deep Brain Reorienting, bottom up through the body

EMDR, with its own separate mechanism

Somatic Experiencing and Brainspotting

Internal Family Systems work

Matched to you after assessment, never preset

Grounding and regulation built into the day

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Treatment space at the Redefine Wellness center in North Scottsdale, Arizona

Levels of Care

DBR is offered within the levels of care Redefine runs. Partial hospitalization runs five days a week, 25 to 30 hours. Intensive outpatient runs three days, 9 to 12 hours. Your assessment decides the level; your plan decides the therapies inside it.

Where DBR can be part of the plan

PHP: five days a week, 25 to 30 hours

IOP: three days a week, 9 to 12 hours

Private retreats and intensives

Individual wellness sessions

Psychiatric coordination throughout

You go home every evening

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How Does Deep Brain Reorienting Work?

Trauma Leaves a Sequence

Trauma is not only a memory. The body's physiological response to it is stored as a sequence in the brainstem, one of the oldest parts of the brain. DBR is built to access that stored sequence directly.

Buried Under Protection

Trauma memories are often buried under layers of emotional overwhelm, dissociation, or protective avoidance. That protection made sense at the time. It also makes healing difficult, because talk alone rarely reaches what is underneath.

Bottom Up, Not Top Down

Most approaches manage symptoms from the top down. DBR avoids that and works from the bottom up instead, focusing on body-based responses, so the work starts where the sequence is stored rather than where the symptoms surface.

Root Event, Not the Label

DBR focuses less on the clinical diagnosis and more on identifying the root traumatic event or experience. The label on your chart matters less here than the moment your nervous system has been carrying.

DBR is one part of a plan. How your sessions are structured and where DBR sits in your week are set by your clinical team after assessment, drawing on more than 20 other therapies as your response develops.

Who Does Deep Brain Reorienting Therapy Help?

PTSD and Complex Trauma

These are DBR's core clinical applications. When the response to a traumatic event stays stored in the body, symptoms can persist no matter how well you understand what happened. DBR approaches PTSD treatment from underneath the story, at the stored sequence itself. Individual results vary.

Built for PTSD and complex trauma
Body-based, paced by your clinician
Grounding and regulation alongside it

Dissociation and Early Attachment

DBR is applied especially where early attachment disruptions have led to dissociative symptoms. When checking out was how a younger you stayed safe, an approach that starts in the body can reach what conversation alone cannot. Our trauma treatment holds that work inside one plan. Individual results vary.

Attuned to early attachment disruption
Works where dissociation blocks talk therapy
Safety and pacing set by your clinician

When Trauma Shows Up Sideways

Emotional dysregulation from unresolved trauma can show up as substance use, disordered eating, or mood disturbances. Treating only the surface behavior leaves the driver running. For people carrying both, our dual diagnosis outpatient treatment holds the trauma work and the condition in one plan. Individual results vary.

Aimed at the root event under the behavior
Care for people with substance use disorders
Psychiatric coordination throughout

When Memories Stay Buried

Trauma memories are often buried under layers of emotional overwhelm, dissociation, or protective avoidance, which makes healing difficult. DBR does not push through those layers with willpower. It goes underneath them, to the physiological sequence the brainstem holds, and lets the brain's natural healing ability do the rest. Individual results vary.

No pressure to retell the story first
Works with protective avoidance, not against it
Taps the brain's natural healing ability

This page is informational and is not a substitute for professional diagnosis or treatment. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or call 911.

Real Connection, Support, & Healing

Our Scottsdale outpatient programs combine innovative neuroscience with proven therapeutic approaches.

Modalities

One of More Than 20 Therapies

DBR never works alone at Redefine. Your clinical team combines it with the clinical and integrative approaches that fit your specific presentation, delivered together rather than in stages. That is what truly customized care means here: more tools and more options, in a plan that changes when your response does.

20+Clinical and integrative therapies available across every program and retreat.

Ask whether DBR belongs in your plan. That is a real conversation.

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Trauma Processing

Deep Brain Reorienting EMDR Accelerated Resolution Therapy Grief Work Art Therapy

Brain-Based

Neurofeedback EXOMIND Brainspotting

Psychotherapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Dialectical Behavior Therapy Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Internal Family Systems Psychodrama

Body & Nervous System

Somatic Experiencing Breathwork PEMF Therapy Sound Therapy

Integrative & Wellness

Red Light Therapy Reiki Yin Yoga and Guided Meditation Soul Spirit Adventures Mindfulness

Clinical Support

Integrative Health Coaching Individual Therapy Group Therapy Psychiatry and Medication Management

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