Trauma Counseling
Does it feel like your past is controlling your present?
Do thoughts of a bad experience pop in to your mind unexpectedly?
Maybe you feel frozen or stuck because of a terrible experience.
Whether your experience was recent or a long time ago, counseling may help you heal from trauma.
Our therapists can help you process trauma in a safe space with support, coping skills, and empowerment.
Don't lose time living in the past, letting it control your life now.
Healing is possible. Be more present. Continue your story. Enjoy your life again.
It can be hard to ask for help, but we know you are strong because you have survived.
Individual counseling for trauma can help...
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SELF ASSESSMENT FOR TRAUMA
How to Get Started with Trauma Counseling:
Getting started is as simple as completing our 5-minute
Intake Pre-screen where you will:
- Briefly share with us why you're seeking services and your presenting concerns.
- Complete a brief risk assessment to ensure you're not at risk for harm to yourself or others.
- Schedule your initial appointment, or a complimentary 15-minute consultation, to ensure you are connecting to the service and provider that’s the best fit for you immediately after you submit your Intake Pre-screen.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS)
Trauma includes a lot of different experiences that are disturbing or distressing. Because we are all different, an experience that is traumatic for one person may not be for someone else. For this reason, in the mental health field, we are often looking at the responses someone has to a particular experience rather than the experience itself.
Some signs that someone has experienced trauma include:
- Flashbacks or mentally going back to the trauma
- Depression, anxiety, or other mental health challenges
- Trouble concentrating
- Feeling constantly on edge
- Insomnia or nightmares
- Feeling numb or detached
- Self-blame or shame
Great question! Plenty of people move through trauma without needing therapy. We are built to overcome difficult things. However, sometimes we need extra help to get into a place of healing. Here are some signs that you might consider therapy to help you start to heal:
- You want to move on but feel stuck
- Trauma keeps you from living your life
- You want to be able to build relationships again
- You want to learn to trust yourself and others
- Your self-esteem isn't where you want it to be
- You are tired of living in the past
Some of our first definitions of trauma were specific to war and combat. Eventually, we learned that people had similar reactions to other types of traumatic experiences like sexual assault, relationship violence, neglect, childhood abuse, and even natural disasters like hurricanes.
As we continue to expand our definition of trauma, we are learning that work environments, discrimination, religious abuse, and more also cause people distress. We are even learning that the impacts of trauma can be passed down through generations. Some less commonly discussed examples of trauma include:
- Inter-generational trauma
- Racial trauma/discrimination/oppression
- Workplace trauma
- Bullying and harassment
- Witnessing someone else experiencing trauma/hearing about trauma
Therapy can’t undo the past. A therapist won’t be able to make the trauma never happen. But, therapy can still help you move through the trauma so you feel more present in your life and less impacted by the trauma you experienced.
Trauma impacts us by making the past feel very present. Therapy guides you through placing the trauma in the past, where it should be. Trauma doesn’t have to be your entire story. Therapy helps make trauma only one small part of your entire story.
If you want to move through trauma and get your life back, start by completing our Intake Pre-screen today.
Trauma can impact a variety of aspects of our lives, including the body and the brain. It can impact both the chemistry and the structure of the brain. Some examples of how trauma can actually change the shape of your brain include damage to the hippocampus and decreased prefrontal cortex size. Some of the impacts of these changes include:
- exhaustion
- memory problems
- confusion
- anxiety
- depression
- anger
- aggression
- physical pain and more
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