Dr. Amanda Lynne Brees, EdD

Amanda Brees, EdD, MATP, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP, APD, HTMA-P, RMT, LMT is a traumatologist, contemplative neurotheologian, and yoga therapist specializing in embodied approaches to complex relational and attachment trauma. A holistic practitioner with 20+ years’ experience, she integrates top-down (pastoral/cognitive) and bottom-up (somatic/yoga) methods to address family-of-origin trauma across adulthood, including divorce fallout, codependency, enmeshment, parentification, abandonment, and abuse.Her work advances a transpersonal psychology lens—appealing to the sanity of a higher power through bhakti (devotional) practice—to cultivate secure God-attachment that can transcend the fragility of human love and stabilize relational healing. Dr. Brees conducted the first research study examining the intersection of faith, complementary therapies, and complex trauma in adult survivors of familial trauma.Selected publication: Brees, A. L. (2021). The New Age of Christian Healing Ministry and Spirituality: A Meta-Synthesis Exploring the Efficacy of Christian-Adapted Complementary Therapies for Adult Survivors of Familial Trauma (Doctoral Dissertations & Projects, No. 3168). Liberty University.