II spent thirty-seven years as a Trauma and Critical Care Nurse. I was really good at the work. I was also, for most of that time, carrying damage I had never been given the space to put down — the kind that starts long before a career does, that gets absorbed quietly into the body, and that a functioning life can conceal for decades before it cannot anymore.

You may know my name from the Netflix film The Good Nurse. I am the confidential informant who helped catch Charles Cullen — the most prolific serial killer in American history. What the film could not show is who I was underneath that story. Or what it cost me. Or what it took — years of it, real and unglamorous and sometimes desperate — to find my way back to myself.

I did not find my way back alone. I found it through therapists and trauma specialists, through somatic healers and energy workers, through teachers and guides and practitioners who were willing to meet me exactly where I was.

I studied everything I could find. I did not stop when something helped a little. I kept going until I understood, from the inside, where damage actually lives and what it actually takes to move it.

What I learned — in my own body and in twenty years of sitting across from clients who were doing the same work — is that healing is not a mystery. It is not reserved for people who already feel okay. And it does not require you to understand what is wrong before you begin. It only requires a willingness to be met where you are.

I am a Certified Hypnotherapist and Timeline Regression Therapist. I am trained in somatic and trauma-informed approaches, NLP, Reconnective Healing, and integrative energy work. I have spent two decades developing a practice that draws on all of it — not as a menu of techniques, but as a deeply personalized navigation of wherever a person is stuck and what their particular nervous system needs to begin releasing it.

I work with healthcare workers who are carrying the accumulated weight of a career that asked everything of them and offered very little in return. I work with people who learned early that their needs came last and have been living that way ever since. I work with anyone who has a sense — even a vague one — that something underneath the surface has been running the show for longer than it should.

You do not have to be in crisis. You do not have to have a name for what is wrong. You only have to be willing to look.

I know where the damage tends to hide. I know how to approach it without force. And I know — because I have done every bit of this work myself — that what feels permanent almost never is.

If you are ready, I am here.

♦  ♦  ♦

Amy Loughren, RN CHt

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