Healing Trauma

“If I ignore it long enough, it will go away.”

Unfortunately, it is not going away, and problems persist. You want so badly to connect with others, but you find yourself unable to trust.

You repeatedly experience the same unpleasant situations, no matter how hard you try to change your environment.

The nightmares and intrusive thoughts keep you up at night. You find yourself suddenly triggered and unable to control your responses and don’t understand why you keep reacting to things.

Self-doubt and low self-esteem create feelings of unworthiness and shame. Your emotions are all over the place – one day depressed, the next, crippled with anxiety.

Nothing seems to work.

Mentally, you feel drained and consumed with daydreaming, disconnection, disorganization, or numbness.

Relationships suffer, and you feel unfulfilled.

Substances may have become a way to deal with the pain, but they don’t provide lasting results. The pain comes back, and you are at square one.

Physically, you may struggle with auto-immune disease, possibly resulting from acute stress (and trauma).

It isn’t YOUR fault!

There are many different faces to trauma, including ‘Big-T’ traumas and ‘little-t’ traumas. There are single episode experiences and chronic experiences that occur over time, which can cause PTSD.

Chronic incidents that occur over time throughout childhood, often referred to as Complex-PTSD, can create lasting effects of trauma.

Trauma affects every individual differently. Trauma or adverse experiences left unresolved after they occur become frozen in the brain and body, causing the brain to perceive a threat even when there isn’t one. The body and the brain become stuck.

Individuals have different responses to trauma.

Trauma response is how the brain and body deal with a perceived threat. Even if the adverse experience happened 20 years ago, if a recent life experience “triggers” or reminds the brain/body of that experience, it will automatically react and try to protect you, causing a “fight, flight, or freeze” response.

So, when you can’t control how you respond to someone raising their voice at work, a smell or sound sets you off, IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT. It’s your brain and body trying to protect you.

Living with trauma can leave you feeling isolated, alone, and hopeless. Those feelings can leave you thinking that no one understands you, and even if they did, your mind tells you that you can’t trust them. This is why trauma is sometimes referred to as the disease of isolation. You want nothing more than to connect to others, but the wounds from your traumatic experiences leave you unable to connect with anyone fully.

There is a way out.

Trauma Therapy can make a difference, and it starts by building a secure relationship with a therapist. This connection is vital to the healing process. As trust develops, the trauma has a chance to resolve itself.

We will explore your symptoms and the type of trauma you’ve dealt with for a long time. Together, we will discuss the best approach and create a plan of action. Trauma work can look very different for every individual, and it usually takes time, so you must have patience.

We will use treatment approaches backed by research to create internal resources to help you feel secure and grounded. Then together, we will begin to work through the memories and uncomfortable feelings to bring about relief from your symptoms.

Relief is just a phone call away!