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Do You Feel Like You’re Haunted By A Traumatic Event From Your Past?

Have you experienced a trauma that is negatively impacting your sense of self? Does it feel like part of you keeps reliving that event over and over again? Do you wish you knew how to move forward in your life and leave the pain of the past behind?

As you’ve grown older you might have carried the fear and pain you endured in your past along with you. Perhaps without even realizing it, the trauma you experienced—such as child abuse and neglect—is impacting all areas of your life. It might show up for you as flashbacks or panic attacks that surface when you encounter something triggering, like a location, person, or sound that reminds you of the event. You may also be experiencing nightmares or trouble sleeping.

Perhaps you find it difficult to trust people, so you remain closed off and withdraw from others. The relationships you do have may be troubled because you experience mood swings and have difficulty regulating your emotions. Or maybe you’re often depressed and unable to concentrate—you might even get confused at times. These symptoms of trauma could be impacting your performance at work or school.

Though at times it can be hard to explain how you feel to others, you know you feel disconnected, as if you’re outside of your body. Depending on the type of trauma you experienced, you could be angry or carry around self-blame for what happened.

Even though it feels like this instance from your past is dictating your future, relief is possible. Trauma treatment can help you get unstuck from the place in time when the trauma occurred. By properly processing the memories—as well as the thoughts and feelings associated with them—therapy can allow you to move forward and find relief from trauma.

While Many Of Us Suffer From Trauma And PTSD, We Don’t Always Seek The Counseling We Need

Many Americans suffer from trauma-related mental disorders. According to the Veterans Association, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) affects 6 out of 10 men and 5 out of 10 women. According to its definition, trauma occurs whenever something threatens our physical or emotional safety, so it’s no wonder so many of us are impacted by it.

Unfortunately, many of us are exposed to traumatic events and circumstances in early childhood and young adulthood that impact us in later life. The causes can vary from situational—such as not having enough food, being raised by verbally or emotionally abusive parents, or being neglected as a child—to experiencing specific events like war, natural disasters, or car accidents. In addition, social factors like systemic racism, discrimination, and oppression can contribute to the effects of trauma.

Although trauma is often the root cause of mental disorders like anxiety and depression, oftentimes we do not connect our moods and behaviors back to past experiences. We are more inclined to downplay the events from our past as being, “not that bad,” or “normal”—as children, we were especially vulnerable to minimizing the pain inflicted upon us. At the time, it was all we knew so we had nothing to compare it against.

Unfortunately, seeking therapy for trauma or other mental health issues is stigmatized in many cultures, preventing those in need from seeking help. What’s more, we often try to use religion, self-help books, and other strategies to address the issues we face on our own. However, these methods are usually not as effective as seeking help from a trauma counselor.

The fact is that trauma is manageable with the proper treatment. When you receive therapy for trauma, you can work on reprocessing the painful memories that keep you stuck in fear, stress, and negativity and restore your sense of peace and well-being.

Trauma Therapy Can Help You Process And Resolve Painful Memories

You may not realize how the trauma you experienced years ago is still affecting your thoughts and behaviors today. As a trained trauma therapist, I will use a combination of evidence-based treatments to help you process and heal from the painful memories you carry with you so that trauma no longer is a factor in your mental health. In therapy, I aim to accompany you through the journey of healing and offer you a safe, confidential space in which you can acknowledge and process your trauma as well as whatever else you may need to discuss.

At our initial session, I will have already reviewed your intake form in advance so we can focus on forming a beneficial relationship. After we discuss what you are hoping to get out of therapy and set goals for our work together, we will create a treatment plan tailored to your unique needs to help resolve your trauma.

During ongoing sessions, I will teach you practical coping skills you can use outside of therapy. Because trauma impacts your self-esteem and relationships, I will show you how self-care and self-love can build confidence and alleviate feelings of isolation and fear. Additionally, I will teach you techniques—such as mindfulness, grounding, relaxation, and guided breathing—to help you self-regulate and find solutions for the symptoms that impact your day-to-day life.

The modalities I primarily use for trauma treatment are Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Brainspotting. CBT has been proven effective in addressing the challenging thoughts, memories, and feelings you may associate with trauma and shows you how to reframe them. I will help you validate your feelings while challenging the negative beliefs you hold about yourself so they no longer keep you stuck.

Brainspotting is a therapy that allows you to access, process, and overcome the underlying trauma that contributes to anxiety, depression, and other behavioral conditions. In sessions, we will use techniques to bypass the conscious part of your brain and instead access its emotional and body-based parts. By slowly guiding your eyes to find your “brainspots”—positions that activate traumatic memories—it will allow you to access and process emotion on a deeper level and target the physical effects of trauma.

I am confident that once you acknowledge that you are in need of help, the door to recovery will open wide to you—all you have to do is walk through it. With openness, hard work and my unflagging support, you can overcome the trauma that is keeping you stuck in the past.

Trauma Therapy Can Help You Process And Resolve Painful Memories

You may not realize how the trauma you experienced years ago is still affecting your thoughts and behaviors today. As a trained trauma therapist, I will use a combination of evidence-based treatments to help you process and heal from the painful memories you carry with you so that trauma no longer is a factor in your mental health. In therapy, I aim to accompany you through the journey of healing and offer you a safe, confidential space in which you can acknowledge and process your trauma as well as whatever else you may need to discuss.

At our initial session, I will have already reviewed your intake form in advance so we can focus on forming a beneficial relationship. After we discuss what you are hoping to get out of therapy and set goals for our work together, we will create a treatment plan tailored to your unique needs to help resolve your trauma.

During ongoing sessions, I will teach you practical coping skills you can use outside of therapy. Because trauma impacts your self-esteem and relationships, I will show you how self-care and self-love can build confidence and alleviate feelings of isolation and fear. Additionally, I will teach you techniques—such as mindfulness, grounding, relaxation, and guided breathing—to help you self-regulate and find solutions for the symptoms that impact your day-to-day life.

The modalities I primarily use for trauma treatment are Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Brainspotting. CBT has been proven effective in addressing the challenging thoughts, memories, and feelings you may associate with trauma and shows you how to reframe them. I will help you validate your feelings while challenging the negative beliefs you hold about yourself so they no longer keep you stuck.

Brainspotting is a therapy that allows you to access, process, and overcome the underlying trauma that contributes to anxiety, depression, and other behavioral conditions. In sessions, we will use techniques to bypass the conscious part of your brain and instead access its emotional and body-based parts. By slowly guiding your eyes to find your “brainspots”—positions that activate traumatic memories—it will allow you to access and process emotion on a deeper level and target the physical effects of trauma.

I am confident that once you acknowledge that you are in need of help, the door to recovery will open wide to you—all you have to do is walk through it. With openness, hard work and my unflagging support, you can overcome the trauma that is keeping you stuck in the past.

But you may still be wondering whether trauma therapy is right for you…

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Won’t talking about my trauma in therapy make it worse? In order to move beyond the painful memories that keep you stuck, it’s helpful for you to acknowledge they happened. Having the freedom to talk about what you’re feeling in a safe and supportive environment can be therapeutic. However, this doesn’t mean that we will have to talk about the details of your trauma in depth. Once you release the underlying emotions surrounding trauma, it can give you the freedom to finally move forward.

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I tried trauma counseling before and it didn’t help me. I understand it can be a hard process selecting the right therapist—sometimes it’s just not the right fit. But just because therapy may not have been successful in resolving your trauma previously, that shouldn’t be a reason not to try again. As a therapist who is trained to help clients recover from past trauma and symptoms of PTSD, I aim to put you at ease and remain flexible in the ways I can help you—I will often ask my clients what’s coming up for them that day so we can address issues as they’re happening in real time.

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I can’t afford trauma therapy. Before you assume you can’t afford therapy, there are some resources that may be accessible to you. In addition to a Health Savings Accounts (HSA) which could cover the cost of mental health services, your insurance provider may also cover a portion of out-of-network benefits. In addition, I strive to make therapy affordable and offer a sliding scale based on financial criteria. And therapy might not be as expensive as you think—sometimes it only takes making some minor adjustments in your budget to afford it.