Trauma
Trauma. Stressful experiences. Significant events.
When you endure something that is beyond what your mind and body can handle in that moment, it can create a lasting impact. Therapy can help to reduce the heaviness you feel from the event and give tools for coping as you move forward through your life.
After going through a significant or traumatic event, you may experience things like: feeling on edge, being irritable, having nightmares, dissociating, or avoiding certain places or things. While these (and other) symptoms are typical responses to a trauma, they can be debilitating in our every day life. In treating trauma, it is our goal that you experience fewer, less intense symptoms, are able to think or talk about your experience without agitation, shift any negative beliefs you are holding onto, and gain coping skills to move through your life.
Doing the work of trauma therapy is not easy. But having a therapist who has tools to support you helps make it possible.
Some examples of trauma and major life events that we have experience with are:
Family of origin/childhood trauma
Relational trauma and loss of relationships
Death of a loved one
Bearing witness to a traumatic event
Power and control dynamics
No one trauma is the same and no two people experience the same event in the same way. Whatever is feeling overwhelming and difficult to you, just is. You deserve to feel better, and you can.