Dr. Judy Bruce
phd, MA, LPC
Splankna Masters Practitioner
Counseling with Dr. Judy
Judy Bruce is passionate about guiding her clients to experience immediate healing, powerful breakthrough, and lasting transformation in their lives. For over 28 years, she has helped numerous men and women experience true emotional and mental freedom. Judy left her thriving practice in Denver, CO to move with family to Georgia in the fall of 2019. She continued her counseling practice, Dr. Judy Bruce, Transformational Counseling in Peachtree City before joining the team at Arise.
Judy specializes in a unique Christian-based energy protocol, Splankna, that does not require clients to rehearse their life narrative in therapy for weeks or months. With Splankna, (named for the Splanchnic nerve that runs through the center of our body), the process of change begins in the first session. God’s Spirit indicates, through the use of muscle testing, the emotional content of the work to be done. After all the emotions around the trauma or wound are cleared in the body, the emotional reactions are exposed, along with the long hidden life strategies. Those ineffective strategies of the enemy are then cleared by a prayer of repentance, and the agreement for the coping behaviors is broken. The prior troubling behaviors then no longer have power. Client after client becomes free to choose life-giving, loving responses to themselves and to others. Free Indeed!
Judy’s combined training in philosophy (MA Philosophy), biblically grounded narrative therapy (MA Biblical Counseling), and language arts (PhD Human Communication) has led her to have great confidence in the effectiveness of Splankna. Her doctoral work included many of the scientific studies that were demonstrating the interconnection of language (thinking) to our body’s experience in the world.
As powerful as biblically based counseling is to guide us into life-affirming behaviors and beliefs, there are times that we just don’t know what needs to change in us. All we know is that we are struggling to be fully present with others and with God; we are doing all we know to obey and to believe and are mystified that we’re angry, hurt, scared, shut-down, just going through a checklist of “good” behaviors. Again, God is very far ahead of us with a great solution! He has wired us up to be led by His Spirit to identify experiences in our lives that we have held onto, stored in our bodies as information we call memories. These memories of trauma (overwhelming experiences we couldn’t release at the time) can be identified with the help of Holy Spirit through a gentle muscle test and cleared and transformed once and for all!
What is Splankna?
Splankna is a powerful therapeutic approach that combines principles from psychology, energy medicine, and Christian spirituality to facilitate deep healing and transformation. It aligns perfectly with our holistic approach to emotional wellness, allowing us to address the root causes of emotional distress and promote lasting change.
Judy creates a safe and supportive environment where you explore and address the underlying emotional issues that may be holding you back from living a free and fulfilling life. By identifying and releasing energetic blockages, Splankna can help you experience profound shifts in your emotional state, allowing for healing and personal growth.
More on Splankna:
Splankna therapy redeems the field of energy psychology for the Kingdom of God, offering a Christian protocol for Mind-Body Work adapting elements from Neuro-Emotional Technique (N.E.T.), Thought-Field Therapy (T.F.T.), E.M.D.R. (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and spiritual warfare. It filters out New Age philosophies and harnesses God’s remarkable created mechanisms in the body-mind connection.
It provides a highly effective treatment procedure for quickly alleviating a wide range of psychological symptoms. It addresses client challenges comprehensively, attending to the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of the problem and the solution.
How does Splankna Work?
Splankna Therapy focuses on the connection between emotions and the body’s energy system. It recognizes that emotional distress can become trapped within the body, leading to imbalances and disruptions in overall well-being. Through gentle, non-invasive techniques, Splankna aims to release emotional burdens, break destructive thought patterns, and restore harmony to the mind, body, and spirit. A biblically informed protocol, it incorporates energy techniques known and now regularly used in some traditional counseling and puts them to use under the direction of the Holy Spirit to bring about deep healing of spirit, soul, and body.
Dr. Judy’s Specialties
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Splankna for Trauma and Emotional Healing for Adults, Adolescents, Children
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Transformational Counseling
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Attachment Disorders
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Anxiety
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Depression
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PTSD
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Sexual Trauma Survivors
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Relationship Solutions
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Addictions (Behavioral, Relational, Substance)
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Life Affirming Boundaries
Client Testimonial
I offer my highest recommendation for Judy Bruce, who has played a pivotal role in transforming the dynamics within our family and enhancing the quality of our lives.
Judy’s unique approach with Splankna goes beyond merely addressing surface-level issues; she is committed to getting to the roots of problems. Through her insightful and compassionate guidance, she has helped us uncover the underlying causes of our challenges, allowing us to work towards genuine, lasting solutions rather than just managing symptoms.
Her ability to create a safe and nurturing space for each family member has been instrumental in improving our relationships. Judy’s expertise has not only strengthened our familial bonds but has also provided us with invaluable tools to navigate future challenges.
Judy’s dedication to our well-being is truly commendable. Her holistic and thoughtful approach has resulted in a positive and lasting impact on our family dynamics. We feel more connected, understood, and equipped to face life’s challenges together. I wholeheartedly recommend her unique approach to anyone seeking transformative and personalized counseling. Her commitment to addressing the roots of issues sets her apart, making her an exceptional guide for those on a journey toward improved relationships and a more fulfilling life.
– Dr Dean Fuller
The Splankna Training Institute describes the protocol this way:
“Splankna attends to the way our bodies store emotions like frequencies. Every moment we experience is stored in the body at the frequency level like a hard drive. Emotional symptoms come from trauma moments in our lives and the memories and emotions the body stores in response. Current situations trigger old, stored, emotional trauma frequencies and we overreact. But the body is able to release these emotion frequencies. A simple but informed combination of “touch and thought” facilitates that release. How do we find these stored emotion frequencies? Muscle response testing. One by one, the stored emotions from the root trauma are released so that the fuel behind today’s symptom is resolved. Body and Soul. When the stored trauma emotions behind a symptom are relieved, Splankna helps the client understand and remove the role that the enemy has played in the problem as well, by discovering the destructive view and lies that were adopted in response to the trauma. Those are broken in prayer.
Splankna is the Greek word for “gut” as in “I have a gut feeling” and really just means the subconscious. Our subconscious works somewhat like a computer hard drive by storing each moment of our life experiences including thoughts and emotions from traumatic events. Emotions are more than just invisible feelings that vanish into thin air. Emotions are made up of chemicals and energetic frequencies which are experienced as sensations in the body and can be stored in the body.
It is a tool that helps us gain access to those unresolved trauma moments and corresponding emotions in deep storage that actually contribute to current problems in life. Once the stored emotions from past trauma events are released, symptoms fueling current issues are resolved resulting in freedom to live emotionally whole, authentic and empowered lives.
Who is Splankna For?
It’s for anyone who wants to experience more joy, more freedom, more life, or who are aware they’ve been hurt somehow and would like to heal. Splankna is effective for those who want more than just talk therapy and desire life-changing healing and results.
It is very effective for:
- Infants, Children. Teens, Adults, Mature Adults and even animals!
- Individuals
- Couples
- Families
Effective to Resolve and Heal:
- PTSD
- Trauma
- Addiction (Substance, Behavioral, and Relational)
- Complicated Boundary Issues
- Attachment Disorders
- Breaking Strongholds and Negative Behavior Patterns
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Relationship Conflicts and Struggles
Why is it effective, and what results can be expected from it?
It’s effective because the client hears from their own soul what hurts need healing and is guided by Holy Spirit to confront how the enemy has used those hurts. Old patterns of response are resolved through repentance and prayer. The client can expect to be able to choose healthy responses to situations that had triggered negative ones in the past. New authority over old situations emerges. Confidence in the Holy Spirit’s work in our souls is strengthened.
Other Benefits:
- Heal emotional wounds so a deep sense of inner peace replaces the pain.
- Break free from tormenting thoughts and behavior patterns that have kept you stuck in frustrating cycles
- Clearing Emotions is the Best protocol for finding the underlying cause of anxiety and relieving it
- A Christian mind-body protocol that enables you to enjoy the time- efficient effects of mind-body techniques without compromising faith and spiritual boundaries.
- Achieve rapid results with anxiety disorders, depression, and a wide range of other symptoms.
- Ability to access and resolve subconscious trauma content in a client’s history.
- Helps clients quickly resolve issues and develop new behavioral and emotional patterns.
- Gets to the core of the issue without having to figure it all out or process through the ways you have experienced pain and stress
- The client can bring in “general misery” with no known focus or cause and count on the Spirit of God to help you identify where to start changing.
- You can choose to not disclose all the details of a traumatic experience except the most general and vague category and still follow God’s leading to receive freedom and healing.
Please try it! You’ll be Amazed and Blessed.
