Trauma Therapy

Does trauma negatively affect your physical health and mental well-being? Is it difficult for you to form close connections with others or establish a sense of safety? As a result of trauma, do you use numbing behaviors to avoid painful emotions that never get fully addressed or acknowledged?

Perhaps you never feel completely at ease and always keep one eye on the exit. No matter what is happening in the present, you might feel that at any moment, the past will come flooding back, causing you to reexperience the fear and helplessness you felt.

Because you can never predict when or how you may get restimulated, you might go out of your way to avoid situations where you are not in control of your surroundings. Immersing yourself in work throughout the day and self-medicating at night might be your coping mechanisms of choice. However, these behaviors only serve to mask the uncomfortable emotions that threaten to rise to the surface.

Your Physical Health And Relationships May Be Impacted

In addition to emotional stressors, you might also experience physical ailments, such as IBS, autoimmune disorders, fibromyalgia, eating disorders, or chronic headaches. You might suffer from panic attacks when faced with stressful situations or get flooded with intrusive thoughts without warning.

Because you may struggle with trust, perhaps you keep yourself at an emotional distance from others. Or maybe internalized shame and low self-worth cause you to enter one-sided relationships where you end up giving more than you get and are persistently terrified of abandonment. Sadly, the loneliness and disconnection you feel affect your view of the world and your place in it.

If you are ready to shed the heavy cloak of trauma, therapy can help. With our integrated approach to treating trauma and complex PTSD, Trauma Resolution Therapy (TRT) offers evidence-based treatments tailored to your needs.

Trauma can disrupt every aspect of your life—biologically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually. Unfortunately, even after years of talk therapy and medication, if you are not receiving the right kind of treatment, the impact of trauma may still linger. Despite understanding why trauma negatively affects you, perhaps you haven’t yet discovered how to create shifts in perspective that foster true healing.

Integrative trauma therapy incorporates a well-rounded treatment approach that addresses mind, body, and spirit to ensure you experience comprehensive relief. As a specialist in treating trauma, your counselor is well-trained in modalities that can help you achieve emotional balance and physical well-being.

What To Expect From Trauma Counseling

Your trauma therapist will create a safe environment for you to do the work, holding space for you where you feel supported and willing to be vulnerable. This involves providing you with resources and tools to manage the emotions you may have been trying to avoid whenever they resurface. For many clients, it may feel safer to be at home during therapy while for others we offer a safe and supportive in-person environment.

Outside of sessions, you will have access to guided meditations and homework to help foster the continuing process of trauma resolution. Psychoeducation can help you better understand if the high levels of stress or health problems you may be experiencing are either due to nervous system over- or under-regulation that causes physical symptoms and emotional disruption.

Are guided meditation and mindfulness effective methods for healing trauma?

We utilize evidence-based trauma recovery modalities that have been heavily researched, including trauma-sensitive mindfulness and guided meditation. [1] At Trauma Resolution Therapy, our team not only has many years of experience but also prioritizes staying up to date on the latest modalities to best support the trauma recovery process. Our bottom-up approach integrates mind and body to ensure the most beneficial results. Rather than coming away from therapy with only an intellectual awareness of trauma, EMDR, guided meditation and mindfulness address the brain and nervous system to facilitate healing.

Won’t talking about my trauma in therapy make me feel worse?

Similar to how a physical wound must be cleaned and dressed to properly heal, so must an emotional wound. Although it can be scary and unsettling to unearth old stories, visions, and memories, keeping them locked away in your subconscious has the potential to inflict long-term damage on your psyche. Without removing the emotional “splinter,” you subject yourself to further physical and psychological torment. To ensure lasting healing, the short-term discomfort you may initially experience in trauma treatment is well worth the ultimate reward.

The expense of trauma and PTSD counseling seems steep to me.

Unlike other health concerns, you might dismiss trauma and PTSD therapy as being overly expensive or indulgent. However, nothing could be further from the truth. It’s hard to put a price on freeing yourself from the emotional pain of unresolved trauma. If you don’t have trauma or complex PTSD treatment in your budget, we will work with you. In many cases, you can utilize insurance to lower your out-of-pocket cost.