The Macgill Centre

The MacGill Centre is a therapeutic centre that specializes in trauma recovery. One of the best definitions of trauma is defined by pioneer trauma specialist Dr. Peter Levine. Dr. Levine states “trauma is not defined by the event but by the body’s experience of overwhelm.” Dr. Levine discovered in his work and research that when our body experiences overwhelm; our body instictively choses a survival response; fight, flight, freeze and collapse. When the body is unable to complete these survival responses; Dr. Levine notes that trauma becomes stored in the body as incomplete survival patterns. Incomplete trauma symptoms include rage, depression, anxiety, hypervigilence and feeling unsafe in the world and often in relationships. Withdrawal, avoidance and fear replace hope, confidence, pleasure and full participation in life. Disconnecting people from access to themselves and the support of others. Our life energy becomes highjacked. At the MacGill Centre we’re concerned essentially with people and su