The effects of trauma can be really difficult to deal with. It can be confusing and distressing if you don’t understand why you’re reacting the way you are or what’s happening. Moreover, you may feel out of control and don’t know how to change it. However, recovery from PTSD and healing from trauma is possible. Through trauma therapy, you can find healing and experience a reduction of symptoms.
The Struggles of Trauma
Trauma can affect every part of your life. Some of the common struggles that result from past trauma include:
- Being triggered: feel like your reactions are instantaneous and out of your control, find yourself reacting strongly to little things, or find your reactions don’t make sense of what is going on in the moment
- Always on-edge, hypervigilant, and on the lookout for danger
- Intrusive thoughts, memories, images, emotions, or sensations (may be related to the trauma or a fear connected to the trauma)
- Avoiding people, places, or things that remind you of the trauma
- Feeling numb, detached or disconnected from emotions or your body
- Increased irritability, anger outbursts, or difficulty regulating emotions
- Troubles focusing, brain fog, difficulty making decisions, or difficulty remembering things
- Holding negative beliefs about yourself, traumatic events, or the world in general
- Feeling like you can’t trust anyone, nowhere is safe, or nobody understands
- Struggles with fear, guilt, shame, and self-blame
- Feeling like you need to keep busy, that you can’t relax, or are unable to express affection
- Feeling sad, hopeless, helpless, overwhelmed, or out of control
- Insomnia, nightmares, fatigue, anxiety, panic attacks, physical pain and digestive issues.
Trauma can affect every part of your life and can feel like a weight pulling you down.
Healing is Possible
We can’t take away your traumatic experiences, but we can process your experiences and lessen your symptoms. We can enlarge your toolbox so you can cope and have a plan for when your trauma is triggered. We can desensitize and process your traumatic memories so they are less reactive and no longer interfere with your day-to-day life.
By processing the trauma, we can start to remove the burdens that are limiting your life and guide you towards a life with more ease and freedom.
How I Can Help You With Your Trauma
Whether you experienced a single traumatic event, relational trauma, complex trauma, or some other kind of trauma, I want to help you overcome your symptoms and get more out of your life. Trauma creates changes in your brain, and we can work together to bring healing through using techniques that are effective for healing those changes.
When I work with trauma, I start by understanding how you are experiencing it right now and what is contributing to it. We can work together at a pace that is right for you and your nervous system. We’ll ensure it is tailored to you and focused on the goals you bring to therapy.
I am flexible in the trauma therapy I provide, as I integrate modalities as needed to best suit what you are struggling with. Some of the modalities I use include EMDR, cognitive processing therapy, parts work/internal family systems, somatic approaches, dialectical behaviour therapy, psychoeducation, and coping strategies. I can also work with some of the consequences of trauma, including chronic pain, substance use, and emotional dysregulation.
What Results Have My Clients Seen
- Improved coping and feeling more in control of their lives and their emotions
- Reduction of trauma triggers, trauma symptoms, and trauma’s effect on their lives
- Increase in self-worth, self-esteem, and self-confidence
- Fewer feelings of shame and guilt
- Feeling less on-edge and reactive
- Better boundaries, improved self-care, and better quality of life
- Improved sleep and ability to relax
- Increased sense of safety and freedom
- Release of previously held burdens and trauma-related beliefs
Find Out What Healing is Possible for You
Trauma does not need to be a lifelong burden weighing you down. We can work together to alleviate your suffering, reduce your struggles, and reveal the self that was hidden by all your pain and suffering. You don’t have to do this alone; I’ll be there with you, encouraging you through the struggles and helping you toward a better path.
Take the Next Step and Get More Out of Your Life
Please Book a Free 15-minute Consultation to Find Out How I Can Help You with Your Trauma.
Related Blog Posts
- What is trauma?
- What are grounding techniques?
- Window of Tolerance
- How Much Trust Do I Need to Find Success in Therapy?
- Benefits of Trauma Counselling
- What is gaslighting?
- The Connection Between Trauma and Chronic Pain
- Coping with Challenges During the Holidays
- What is a Sense of Safety?
- How Christianity Can Be Incorporated into Trauma Therapy
- What is PTSD?
- What is Complex PTSD?
- What is Dissociation?