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Trauma Therapy
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Trauma Therapy
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It is important to note that the information shared on this page can be triggering to some individuals who have experienced trauma. As such, it is crucial to approach the topic with sensitivity and care. It is recommended that individuals who have experienced trauma seek support from a mental health professional to navigate any triggers that may arise. By acknowledging the potential for triggering content, I can create a safer and more inclusive space for all individuals seeking mental health services and information.
Online Therapy for Trauma
Experienced Trauma Therapist
Trauma therapy is a type of therapy that helps individuals who have experienced traumatic events to cope with their emotions and feelings. Childhood trauma and other traumatic experiences can leave a lasting impact on a person's mental health, leading to anxiety, depression, and other mental health disorders.
Online therapy has become increasingly popular as a way to seek help for trauma. It allows individuals to receive therapy from the comfort of their own home, which can be especially beneficial for those who may have difficulty leaving their home due to their trauma. Online therapy for childhood trauma and other traumatic events can help individuals to process their emotions and develop coping mechanisms to manage their symptoms.
Through online therapy, individuals can work with me as a licensed therapist who specializes in trauma therapy. As a therapist I provide a safe and supportive environment for individuals to explore their feelings and emotions, and work towards healing and recovery.
Overall, trauma therapy is an important aspect of mental health care for those who have experienced trauma. Online therapy provides a convenient and accessible option for individuals to receive the help they need to overcome their traumatic experiences and improve their mental health.
If you have experienced childhood trauma, loss, life transition, or a traumatic event that you cannot get past no matter how hard you try?
If you question your self-worth?
If you're constantly on guard, looking to see if you are in danger?
If you battle with intrusive thoughts or reoccurring nightmares?
If you've experienced something that stays with you no matter how hard you try to shake it?
Perhaps it was an absent parent, neglect, molestation, or violence in the home. Maybe you have experienced infidelity by a partner, domestic violence, divorce, verbal or mental abuse, or the sudden loss of a loved one, etc.
Whatever the experience or when it occurred, unresolved or untreated trauma does not go away and impacts your entire life including your relationships, how you view yourself and others, as well as your physical health.
I help clients process their traumatic experiences by first understanding the emotions, thoughts, and often physical systems they are having. I work with clients to build coping and relaxation skills, improve their self-awareness, regain the strength to move forward and rebuild, and live happier and fulfilled lives.
If you have experienced childhood or other forms of trauma, you're not alone, and you don't have to suffer any longer.
TYPES OF TRAUMA
Understanding Trauma
Trauma comes in many forms, but each carries with it an undeniable change that impacts your inward self and leaves you with questions, fears, and trying to find your way back to before it happened. Often most individuals associated trauma with some form of abuse (sexual or physical) but trauma is best defined by the person that experiences it. Trauma is any event that has been interpreted by the individual as a terrifying experience.
There are several types of trauma. Here is a list of just a few:
Domestic violence - violent treatment by a partner, immediate family, or someone in your intimate circle
Betrayal Trauma - the result of having your trust or wellbeing violated by someone you depend on for survival including infidelity
Abandonment Trauma - emotional or physical neglection at any age.
Abuse (verbal, mental, emotional, physical, sexual, and financial) - the result of being misused, treated violently, violated, or controlled
Historical Trauma - years of systematic oppression to a culture of people
Rejection Trauma - the result of feeling continuously rejected by a parent or loved one
Childhood Trauma - an emotionally painful or distressing event experienced as a child
Life Transition - sudden loss of a loved one, divorce, or chronic illness
Car Accident - when a motor vehicle collides into another or losses control leaving the individual with anxiety, tension, and emotional distress each time they enter a vehicle
A Pandemic - such as experienced with COVID and the panic, death, and the unknown of when does it end or what could happen next
Trauma can be experienced in a number of ways and can cause various mental, emotional, and physical issues.
Unpacking the Complexities of Trauma
What is Trauma?
What is trauma? Understanding trauma is a crucial aspect of mental health. Trauma can be defined as an event or series of events that cause extreme stress or harm to an individual. Traumatic experiences can have a lasting impact on a person's mental and emotional well-being, and can lead to conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression.
It is important to recognize that trauma can take many forms, including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, neglect, natural disasters, and accidents. Trauma can also be experienced on a collective level, such as through systemic oppression or violence.
When working with individuals who have experienced trauma, it is important to approach them with sensitivity and empathy. Trauma can affect a person's ability to trust others, and it may take time for them to feel comfortable opening up about their experiences. It is also important to recognize that trauma can manifest in different ways, such as through Anxiety, dissociation, shame, guilt, helplessness, hopelessness, worry, grief, depression, or anger.
Seeking professional help from a mental health provider can be beneficial for those who have experienced trauma. Therapy can provide a safe space for individuals to process their experiences and develop coping skills. Additionally, self-care practices such as exercise, meditation, and spending time in nature can also be helpful in managing symptoms of trauma.
Traumatic events are experienced differently from one individual to the next and depend on the individual's perceived awareness of the event and how impactful it was to his/her life.
Childhood Trauma
It's Time to Heal
Allowing the younger you to heal from childhood trauma also allows the adult you to move forward and live happier.
Understanding Childhood Trauma
Traumatic Childhood
Childhood trauma can occur in many ways:
-Physical (beatings) or verbal abuse
-Molestation
-Experiencing Bullying
-Witnessing a Traumatic Event
-Living in a household where there was Domestic Violence
-Feeling abandon by a parent (emotionally, mentally, or physically)
-Poverty
-Cultural shocks after moving to Western Society
The term childhood many would think it brings up images of fun, innocence, joy, freedom, and all the beautiful wonders often associated with it. The stages of childhood should be a time of security, protection, and love knowing that you have the stability and protection of family. This is a time when nurturing is important and when children understand and learn to form relationships. However, for many, their childhood has been distorted by something that has also affected them on into adulthood.
Often adults are unable to process emotions and earlier life events that have caused them enormous distress. Their earlier experiences have left them feeling unworthy, anxious, depressed, and unsafe. Childhood trauma affects a child's stability and often their sense of self and continues into adulthood when not treated. The stress from childhood trauma often leaves behind feelings of shame and guilt, difficulties regulating emotions, unable to relate to others due to feeling disconnected and unsafe, increased anxiety, anger, and depression.
Many adults are left with questions of why them and what could they have done to stop it. Often they blame themselves, and are lost on how to move forward in life and their relationships.
CHILDHOOD & OTHER TRAUMA
The Effects
The distressing events from childhood and other trauma can have long-lasting effects. When a child experiences severe distress in the home and is not provided a sense of security and protection, they often develop their own way of coping to help function and survive from day-to-day. This form of coping is not always healthy or beneficial to their sense of self. Children are naturally egocentric, meaning they operate inwardly. So, when a parent comes home angry due to experiencing a hard day at work, if not explained, a child often views the parents behavior as "something is wrong with me or I did something wrong."
When this behavior continues without a parent explaining what has happen to ease the child, this can leave them constantly questioning themselves or attempting to always please others.
Adults with childhood trauma often walk on eggshells and are sensitive in their interactions with others out of fear of not knowing what to expect. They become adults who struggle to make confident decisions or communicate their thoughts and concerns. This happens because many individuals who experience childhood trauma where not given an opportunity to voice their opinions and concerns by the authority figures in their lives. This and other stressors leaves them feeling anxious, depressed, and passive with a lack of self-worth.
Other trauma related experiences can leave a person constantly on high alert, always feeing like something terrible might happen. Immediately after the traumatic events individuals may experience shock and denial. As time goes on many individuals experience flashbacks, nightmares, feelings of anger, hopelessness, intrusive thoughts or memories, avoidance, difficulties with relationships, headaches, body pain, nausea, and hypervigilance. Guilt and shame are often one of the most common side effects from trauma and it leaves the individual struggling with a sense of self (esteem, confidence, worth, love, and self-care).
Often the feeling of not having the control to stop the traumatic event(s) they've experienced in childhood or other trauma related experiences stays with them by causing increased anxiety when the individual believes they cannot control even the smallest situation in their life. They learn to withhold their emotions, and perfect masking their fears, sadness, and anger, which causes both mental and physical issues.
In short, trauma can stay in the mind and body for years when not treated and affect one's life until it is processed.
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