Deborah Maddison

Deborah found Breathwork and TRE® (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises) and following a long recovery journey after medical retirement from the Navy in her late 20s. Anxiety, depression, complex PTSD had swamped her, but through TRE and Breathwork she steadily found herself becoming more grounded, more safely embodied, and more alive.

In addition to client work, Deborah is a Trainer with the AIR School of Breathwork, supporting the Breathwork Practitioners of the future to become not only skilled professionals, but to dive profoundly into their own healing journey.

The trauma work, and particularly the Nervous System work, the Science of Human Safety (Polyvagal theory), learned through TRE training, also deeply informs how she works with breath, ensuring she brings a slow, calm, regulated presence to client sessions (a “safe mother” energy). She walks the talk and uses the practices she teaches daily in her own life to come home to feeling balanced and regulated, and to maintain a deeper connection to herself and life. Deborah loves to share TRE and Breathwork with others and hold safe space for clients to reconnect to themselves; she offers this work with love, kindness, and compassion to all those who are drawn.