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Trauma-informed care for mind, body, and soul

Clinical care with a softer landing.

Doctor Fab helps people make sense of what they have carried, build steadier tools for daily life, and move toward healing with safety, clarity, and choice.

The work

Healing is easier to begin when the next step is clear.

Dr. Fabiola Jean Taylor brings trauma-informed clinical insight, nervous system education, mindfulness, and practical tools into a space that feels steady and human. The work is not about performing wellness. It is about building enough safety to tell the truth, practice new patterns, and keep going.

Doctor Fab serves individuals, children, families, caregivers, schools, teams, and community spaces that want care with real language, real tools, and respect for the full person.

Work With Dr. Fab

Three doors into the same mission.

Start with private care, stay connected through the Sanctuary, or bring trauma-informed education into the rooms where people live, learn, work, and lead.

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Healing Sanctuary

A growing digital home for grounding tools, a guided reflection companion, plain-language teaching, and gentle practices between sessions.

  • Short practices you can return to
  • Reflection prompts that do not rush you
  • Plain-language healing education

Best for between-session support and gentle self-guided tools.

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Workshops & Speaking

Trauma-informed conversations for schools, teams, caregivers, wellness events, and community groups that want useful language.

  • Caregiver and family education
  • Workplace wellness and resilience
  • Community healing conversations

Best for schools, teams, events, and caregiver groups.

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Meet Dr. Fab

Warm, clinically grounded, and clear about what healing asks of us.

Dr. Fabiola Jean Taylor is a trauma specialist whose work bridges evidence-based care, cultural awareness, somatic practice, and accessible education. Her approach honors the whole context around a person: body, story, family, community, identity, and environment.

Safety before speed Body and story together Culture and community matter

Care Areas

Support for what shows up in real life.

Trauma & Stress

Support for experiences that keep echoing through the body, mood, relationships, and daily routines.

Nervous System Tools

Practical ways to notice activation, steady the body, and create more choice under pressure.

Children & Families

Language and support for caregivers, children, and families trying to shift old patterns.

Community Wellness

Education for groups that want trauma-informed care to become part of the culture, not just a concept.

Start here

Pick the care area that feels closest.

Doctor Fab will translate the concern into one grounded next step.

Doctor Fab's Healing Sanctuary

A resource library for the days between the big conversations.

Healing is not only what happens in a session. The Sanctuary is being shaped as a calm, useful place for grounding practices, reflection prompts, and teaching that helps people stay connected to themselves between moments of deeper support.

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90-second reset

Come back to the room first.

  1. Look for three steady shapes.
  2. Feel both feet or one hand supported.
  3. Lengthen one exhale and let the next step be small.
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Grounding Library

Short practices for stress, activation, and daily return.

Track 02

Healing Language

Plain words for repair, boundaries, and nervous system care.

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Caregiver Tools

Co-regulation scripts and family support between sessions.

Reflection & Grounding Companion

A calm checkpoint for the moments between sessions.

This gentle companion is built for short, present-tense support: naming what is happening, finding steadier ground, and choosing one small next step without rushing the visitor into a story they do not want to tell.

It is not therapy, diagnosis, emergency care, or a replacement for working with Dr. Fab or another clinician. It is a quiet tool for reflection when a little structure would help.

Need urgent help? If you are in immediate danger or crisis in the United States, call 911 or call/text 988. The companion will pause and show crisis resources instead of continuing an exercise.
Doctor Fab’s Healing Sanctuary

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Share only what feels safe. You can pause, skip, or stop.

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Resources

Clear language can make healing less lonely.

The resource library will translate therapeutic ideas into words and practices people can actually use: grounding, regulation, repair, boundaries, trauma-informed parenting, and community care.

Downloadable Resources

If you are in immediate danger or crisis in the United States, call 911 or 988. For overwhelmed moments that need steadiness, these resources are ready to view or save.

PDF

The Grounding Toolkit

Eight practical grounding practices for overwhelmed moments.

PDF

Emotionally Safe Communication

A short guide for choosing safer words in charged conversations.

Lexicon

Window of Tolerance

How to recognize your nervous system window and return to it.

Lexicon

Co-Regulation for Caregivers

Steady scripts and guidance for hard parenting moments.

The Inner Lexicon

Better words for hard things.

Selected term

Regulation

Try saying: "My body is asking for steadiness before I solve this."

Regulation

Helping the body return toward steadiness after stress, activation, shutdown, or overwhelm.

Grounding

Simple practices that bring attention back to the present moment, the body, and the room you are in.

Repair

The process of returning to a relationship after rupture with honesty, accountability, and care.

Trauma-Informed

An approach that prioritizes safety, trust, choice, collaboration, empowerment, and culture.

Window of Tolerance

The zone where the nervous system has enough capacity to feel, think, choose, and connect.

Activation

A body state of mobilized energy, often showing up as urgency, tension, anxiety, or irritability.

Boundaries

Clear limits that protect energy, safety, time, and connection without requiring harshness.

Co-Regulation

Using steady presence, tone, rhythm, and connection to help another nervous system settle.

Therapeutic feeling compass organizing words into core emotions, body states, attachment, needs, youth language, and spiritual meaning

Therapeutic Feeling Lexicon

Scan by category to find the nearest feeling word.

This list gives visitors a practical way to name what is present, notice the body state underneath it, and move toward the need that may be asking for care.

Core / Basic Emotions Happiness / Joy
HappyJoyfulGladDelightedCheerfulContentPleasedSatisfiedFulfilledGratefulBlissfulElatedEcstaticEuphoricPlayfulLightheartedOptimisticEncouragedHopefulInspiredPeacefulSereneCalmRelaxedFreeProudConfidentConnectedLovedAcceptedAppreciatedWarmSafeComfortedEnergizedMotivatedRefreshedRestoredCuriousAdventurousExcitedEnthusiasticPassionateAmused
Core / Basic Emotions Sadness / Grief

Mild Sadness

SadDownBlueLowDisappointedDiscouragedGloomyHeavy-heartedMelancholyDisheartenedUninspiredLonelyLeft outUnseenUnheardUnimportantEmptyDrainedTiredWithdrawn

Deep Sadness / Grief

HeartbrokenDevastatedGrievingBereavedDespairingHopelessPowerlessNumbHollowMiserableCrushedShatteredAbandonedRejectedIsolatedAlienatedDefeatedLostVulnerableFragileWoundedAcheyYearningLonging
Core / Basic Emotions Anger / Frustration

Mild Irritation

AnnoyedIrritatedBotheredFrustratedImpatientAgitatedTenseResentfulOffendedUncomfortableDefensiveDismissedInvalidatedInterruptedPressured

Moderate to Intense Anger

AngryMadFuriousEnragedOutragedBitterHostileIndignantContemptuousFed upHeatedExplosiveAggressiveViolatedBetrayedControlledTrappedOppressedDisrespectedManipulatedWronged
Core / Basic Emotions Fear / Anxiety

Mild Fear

NervousUneasyApprehensiveConcernedUncertainHesitantCautiousInsecureShySelf-consciousRestlessStartledSensitiveHyperaware

Moderate Anxiety

WorriedAnxiousOverwhelmedStressedPanickedAlarmedPressuredUnsafeThreatenedHypervigilantFragileVulnerableDreadingAfraidFearfulDistrustfulSuspiciousFrozenDysregulated

Intense Fear

TerrifiedHorrifiedPetrifiedHelplessParalyzedCatastrophicDoomedTrappedExposedUnsafeUnprotected
Core / Basic Emotions Shame / Guilt

Shame

AshamedEmbarrassedHumiliatedMortifiedWorthlessBrokenFlawedDefectiveInadequateInferiorSmallExposedSelf-loathingUnlovableDirtyBadWeakFakeFraudulent

Guilt / Regret

GuiltyRemorsefulRegretfulSorryResponsibleBurdenedConflictedConscience-strickenRepentant
Connection Love / Connection / Belonging
LovedCherishedAdoredValuedSeenHeardUnderstoodAcceptedIncludedWelcomedTrustedIntimateCloseBondedCompassionateAffectionateTenderEmpatheticSupportedSecureSafeGroundedAttachedConnectedLoyalAppreciated
Agency Confidence / Empowerment
ConfidentCapableCompetentStrongBraveCourageousEmpoweredWorthyResilientIndependentAssertiveMotivatedDeterminedFocusedGroundedStableSecureCenteredProudAccomplishedSuccessfulValidatedCreativeResourceful
Mind Confusion / Cognitive States
ConfusedUnsureTornIndecisiveDistractedFoggyScatteredDisorganizedLostConflictedDetachedDisconnectedDissociatedUnclearBewilderedPerplexedCuriousReflectiveContemplativeQuestioning
Trauma / Nervous System States Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, Safe

Fight Response

ReactiveDefensiveCombativeIrritableAggressiveControlling

Flight Response

RestlessAvoidantEscapistDrivenPerfectionisticHyperproductivePanicked

Freeze Response

NumbFrozenStuckCollapsedImmobilizedShutdownBlankDisconnected

Fawn Response

People-pleasingOveraccommodatingAppeasingSelf-abandoningOvergivingCompliance-driven

Regulated / Safe States

GroundedSettledPresentOpenBalancedSecureConnectedCalmRestedAttuned
Mind / Body / Spirit Sensory / Somatic Feelings
HeavyLightTightConstrictedExpandedWarmColdTinglingBuzzingNumbAchingRelaxedActivatedJitteryShakyFloatingRootedRestlessDrainedEnergizedPressurizedOpenClosed off
Mind / Body / Spirit Existential / Spiritual Feelings
ConnectedAlignedPurposefulWholeAwakenedSpiritually nourishedGroundedCenteredExpansiveOpen-heartedGratefulReverentPeacefulFaithfulTrustingHopefulDisillusionedSpiritually disconnectedLostSearchingYearningCalledRestored
Relational / Attachment Feelings Attachment Themes

Secure Attachment Feelings

SafeConnectedTrustingStableWantedChosenRelaxed

Anxious Attachment Feelings

ClingyWorriedPreoccupiedRejectedNeedyFearfulAbandoned

Avoidant Attachment Feelings

SmotheredClosed offDetachedWithdrawnIndependentDistrustfulNumb

Disorganized Attachment Feelings

TornConflictedChaoticUnsafeLongingFearfulConfused
Needs Underneath Feelings What the Feeling May Be Asking For
Need for safetyNeed for restNeed for reassuranceNeed for connectionNeed for autonomyNeed for belongingNeed for validationNeed for structureNeed for predictabilityNeed for playNeed for supportNeed for understandingNeed for affectionNeed for spaceNeed for meaningNeed for protectionNeed for emotional attunementNeed for co-regulationNeed for honestyNeed for gentleness
Children & Teens Words Especially Helpful for Children & Teens

Younger Children

MadSadScaredHappySillyLonelyNervousExcitedEmbarrassedConfusedJealousProudLeft outShySafeUnsafeCalmFrustrated

Teens / Adolescents

OverwhelmedDrainedPressuredMisunderstoodRejectedInvisibleDifferentIsolatedBurned outStressedNumbAwkwardInsecureSelf-consciousTrappedDysregulatedInvalidatedUnsupportedEmpoweredSeen

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