Therapy for People Touched by Trauma
Find a Sense of Peace and Connectedness
Trauma?
If you selected people touched by trauma, you probably already know that you’ve experienced trauma and you want help for it. You also might not be sure if you’ve experienced trauma.
Trauma is a big word that people often associate with veterans or people who have experienced really big and scary things that have happened to them like shootings, natural disasters, assaults, being the victim of a crime, or experiencing childhood abuse.
Trauma is also quite often the things that didn’t happen that should have that involved your emotional and physical well-being. This kind of trauma is not talked about often, but its effects can be lasting and make an impression on how we see ourselves and show up in the world.
Something Is Missing
I think of trauma as anything that happened (or that didn’t but should have) that still takes a toll emotionally and/or in your relationships today making your life more difficult and less fulfilling overall. Most clients that I work with are people who have identified that they have experienced trauma and its often childhood trauma of some kind. Consider this question and notice your immediate reactions: While growing up, did you feel emotionally connected to, valued, and unconditionally loved and accepted by your parent(s) or caregiver(s)? If you cannot solidly answer yes to this, then that is trauma too. At the core, whatever the trauma, it can impact your sense of safety and your sense of self impacting your life and relationships in big and small ways that are often not recognized until you seek help.
This Feels Scary!
Whatever your story, you will find a respite with me. We will carefully tend to the emotional wounds and pain you are holding so that you can finally feel peace and freedom from your story that you’ve not yet had.
I’m not going to sugar coat it. This is will likely be hard but not as hard as you probably fear. I get feedback from my clients who come to me to work on their trauma that they’ve never had a better experience doing this work than they have with me, and they share feeling so deeply understood and safe. This helps them to be able to open up and share things that they’ve often never said before.
That unburdening can be life changing and life-affirming and I want, so badly, for you to have that too. We will work together to see how your trauma has impacted how you look at yourself and the world and help you get reconnected to yourself in new and lasting ways.
Sneaky Trauma
If you’ve done therapy for your trauma before that helped reduce your daily symptoms but you’ve now found yourself looking for more, I want you to know that we will work together to uncover all the sneaky ways that your trauma is still showing up and interfering with your life, relationships, and general well-being. This work can be hard because you might find yourself thinking, “Still? This is still showing up in my life? I am so sick of it. When will I be healed? I’m tired of the problems in my life tying back to my trauma.”
It's important to know that during this work, we will go at your pace, and we will work carefully. I’ll tailor how we work to fit what feels good to you and will help you reach your goals. Trauma has lots of sneaky ways of showing up again and again, and that’s ok. You adapted in many ways to get through what you did and it worked for a time. Now it’s not and we will find a new path forward where you feel more in control.
Let’s Connect
Together, we will uncover the ways that your trauma has touched different aspects of your life and create meaningful change in how you see yourself and how you interact with the world around you. You are touched by trauma but not broken.
