This lecture will describe how brain structures at the level of the survival brain help individuals react reflexively to trauma at a subconscious level and therefore provide an ultra-fast means of responding to overwhelming experience. Moreover, these deep brain structures can hijack the conscious level of the brain and can thus have a profound influence on how we view ourselves and the world in the aftermath of trauma. This research has critical implications for treatment of trauma-related disorders since current therapies for these disorders focus predominantly on conscious responses to trauma. It is therefore critical that treatment strategies for trauma target directly the effects of trauma reminders occurring in everyday life beyond the level of conscious awareness. Here, it will be crucial that mind-body interventions and neurofeedback training will be examined as potentially important adjunctive treatments for trauma-related syndromes since these treatments can target trauma symptoms occurring beyond the level of conscious awareness.