My Journey
My journey as a trauma-informed therapist began with my own journey toward healing. Through my experiences with relational trauma, grief, and loss, I came to understand that healing does not always happen through thinking and talking alone. We can understand our experiences intellectually while our bodies, emotions, and nervous systems continue to respond to what we have lived through.
This realization changed both my personal healing journey and the kind of therapist I wanted to become.
As I continued my education in social work, psychotherapy, trauma, and dissociation, I became increasingly drawn to approaches that work with the brain, body, nervous system, emotions, and mind together. This ultimately led me to specialize in EMDR Therapy and develop a bottom-up, integrative approach to trauma treatment.
EMDR, the Body & the Nervous System
EMDR became an important part of my journey because trauma therapy does not always require clients to rely solely on words. EMDR allows us to attend to different aspects of an experience—including memories, emotions, beliefs, images, and body sensations—while using bilateral stimulation to support trauma processing.
This fits naturally with how I understand healing.
Sometimes our minds know, “I am safe now,” while our bodies and nervous systems continue to respond as though danger is still present. My work is therefore interested not only in what happened, but also in what happens inside you now when your nervous system is reminded of what happened.
This perspective has shaped my passion for supporting people living with complex PTSD (CPTSD), developmental and attachment trauma, relational trauma, and dissociation.
With complex trauma and dissociation, I believe that deeper processing must be carefully paced. My work follows a phased approach that emphasizes stabilization and nervous-system regulation before deeper trauma processing and integration. Healing is not about pushing through trauma; it is about developing enough internal safety, awareness, and capacity to approach difficult experiences without becoming overwhelmed.
Beyond Talk Therapy: Mind, Body & Nervous System
My exploration of bottom-up healing has also led me more deeply into somatic therapy, IFS-informed work, the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP), yoga, Yoga Nidra, breath, meditation, sound therapy, anatomy, and the nervous system.
Yoga, for me, extends far beyond asana or physical postures. It has become a way of exploring the relationship between mind, body, breath, awareness, and presence. My continued study of anatomy and the nervous system has further deepened my understanding of how trauma can affect the whole person.
These approaches do not replace psychotherapy or EMDR. They complement my trauma work by providing different pathways for helping clients develop greater awareness, regulation, embodiment, and connection.
Creating Peace Within
My Sankalpa, or heartfelt intention, is:
“I am creating peace within.”
Over time, these words have become more than a personal intention. They have become part of my mission and calling.
Creating peace within does not mean that we never experience fear, sadness, anger, grief, or uncertainty. For me, it means developing the capacity to remain connected to ourselves through difficult experiences, understand what our nervous system is communicating, and cultivate a place within ourselves to which we can return.
My work begins with continuing to cultivate this within myself.
I believe that the work I invite clients to explore requires me to remain committed to my own self-awareness, embodiment, healing, and growth. My experiences are not the same as my clients', but my own journey has taught me to approach another person's healing with humility, compassion, curiosity, and respect for the pace of their nervous system.
I cannot create peace for another person. What I can do is continue cultivating peace within myself and, by extension, create a therapeutic space where others are supported in discovering and cultivating their own sense of safety, connection, regulation, and peace within.
That is at the heart of my calling as a trauma therapist:
to walk alongside people as they move beyond survival, reconnect with themselves, and discover greater peace within their mind, body, and nervous system.
Specialties integrated approaches with different modalities physical, emotions , thoughts
Therapy Modalities
- EMDR Therapy
- EMDR–Sandtray Therapy
- Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)
- IFS-Informed & Somatic Therapy
- Yin Yoga & Trauma-Informed Movement
- Sound Therapy
- SCID-D Dissociation Assessment
Populations Served:
Individuals across the lifespan, including young adults and older adults
Families with young children and adolescents
Complex and developmental trauma (CPTSD)
Relational and attachment trauma
Sexual trauma
Medical trauma
Single-incident trauma and PTSD
Dissociation and structural dissociation
Grief, loss, and traumatic bereavement
About Camille
Camille Lloyd, MSW, RSW, MEd, is a trauma-informed clinical social worker and psychotherapist with a particular passion for working with individuals experiencing complex PTSD (CPTSD), developmental trauma, and dissociation.
Camille takes a bottom-up approach to trauma therapy, recognizing that trauma is experienced not only through our thoughts and memories, but also through our emotions, body sensations, relationships, and nervous-system responses. For some people, trauma can show up as anxiety, hypervigilance, anger, or feeling constantly “on guard.” For others, it can look like numbness, disconnection, shutdown, or feeling detached from themselves or the world around them.
Rather than relying on talk therapy alone, Camille helps clients gently become curious about what is happening in the body and nervous system. Therapy may involve noticing sensations, movement, breath, sound, bilateral stimulation, protective responses, emotions, and beliefs while building the capacity to remain connected to the present.
Her work is paced carefully, particularly when working with complex trauma and dissociation. Safety and stabilization come before deeper trauma processing. Clients are supported in learning to recognize their nervous-system states, develop resources for regulation, and increase their ability to move between activation and calm without becoming overwhelmed or shutting down. When there is sufficient readiness and stability, therapy can gradually move toward processing and integrating traumatic experiences.
Camille integrates EMDR Therapy, EMDR-Sandtray Therapy, IFS-informed and somatic approaches, the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP), Yoga Nidra, Yin Yoga, mindful movement, and sound therapy. She also provides specialized assessment of dissociative symptoms using the SCID-D.
Camille has a particular interest in anatomy, the nervous system, and the mind-body connection in trauma recovery. She is currently completing her 200-hour yoga teacher training and continuing her education toward incorporating yoga more therapeutically into her clinical practice. Yoga Nidra, mindful movement, breath, and therapeutic sound may be integrated into treatment to support present-moment awareness, grounding, rest, and nervous-system regulation.
Her areas of focus include complex and developmental trauma, relational and attachment trauma, sexual trauma, medical trauma, PTSD, and dissociation, including structural dissociation.
At the heart of Camille's work is the belief that trauma healing is not simply about talking about the past. It is about helping clients develop a different relationship with what happens inside them in the present—learning to understand their nervous system, reconnect with their bodies, recognize protective responses with compassion, and gradually develop greater capacity for safety, connection, and choice.
Camille's intention is to support clients in moving from simply surviving toward feeling more present, connected, and at peace within themselves.
The Meaning Behind Peppermint: Healing Mind, Body & Nervous System
The name Peppermint Wellness EMDR and Trauma Therapy Inc holds a deeply personal meaning for me. Peppermint brings me back to my childhood in Jamaica, where plants and natural remedies were woven into everyday experiences of comfort, care, and well-being. What began as a personal connection to this familiar plant has grown into a reflection of how I understand trauma, healing, and the mind-body connection.
Peppermint has traditionally been valued for its soothing, refreshing, and restorative qualities. For me, these qualities beautifully represent the heart of my work as a trauma-informed clinical social worker and psychotherapist.
My practice has evolved to have a particular focus on complex PTSD (CPTSD), developmental and attachment trauma, and dissociation. Many people living with complex trauma have spent years—or even much of their lives—in survival states. Their nervous systems may remain highly activated and vigilant, or move toward numbness, disconnection, and shutdown when life becomes overwhelming.
This is why my approach to trauma therapy is intentionally bottom-up and holistic.
Healing is not only about understanding what happened intellectually. Trauma can also be reflected in the body's sensations, emotions, protective responses, relationships, and patterns of nervous-system activation. Therapy therefore involves learning to listen to both the mind and the body.
I integrate approaches such as EMDR Therapy, EMDR-Sandtray Therapy, IFS-informed and somatic therapy, the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP), Yoga Nidra, Yin Yoga, mindful movement, breath, and sound therapy. When appropriate, I also provide specialized assessment of dissociative symptoms using the SCID-D.
For clients experiencing complex trauma and dissociation, this work is carefully paced. We begin by developing greater awareness of the nervous system and building resources for stabilization and regulation before moving toward deeper trauma processing. The intention is not to force the nervous system into calm, but to gradually increase its capacity for safety, flexibility, connection, and choice.
Peppermint as a Symbol of Mind-Body Healing
The peppermint plant represents many of the qualities I hope clients can gradually cultivate through therapy: grounding, restoration, resilience, clarity, and connection.
Its roots remind me that healing requires a foundation.
Its leaves remind me of growth and renewal.
Its familiar scent reminds me of the powerful relationship between our senses, memories, emotions, and bodies.
And its longstanding place in traditional wellness practices reflects something central to my therapeutic philosophy: the mind and body are interconnected and deserve to be cared for together.
This philosophy also informs my growing integration of yoga and somatic practices into psychotherapy. My interest in anatomy and the nervous system has deepened my understanding of how trauma can affect the whole person. As I continue my yoga training and work toward integrating yoga more therapeutically into my practice, I remain interested in how movement, breath, stillness, sound, and embodied awareness can complement evidence-informed trauma therapy.
Finding Peace Within
Ultimately, Peppermint Wellness Therapy is about more than the peppermint plant. Peppermint represents the kind of healing space I hope to create.
A space where you do not have to rush your healing.
A space where the protective responses that helped you survive can be approached with curiosity and compassion.
A space where therapy can include both talking and listening to what your nervous system and body are communicating.
And a space where healing from trauma is not defined by forgetting the past, but by gradually experiencing more safety, connection, choice, and presence in the here and now.
For me, the essence of Peppermint Wellness Therapy is helping people move beyond survival and toward finding greater peace and calm within themselves—mind, body, and nervous system.
