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Exploring the fragments of trauma is the healing process that creates wholeness
Unresolved trauma, such as childhood trauma, can make everyday life challenging. Some find themselves unfulfilled in their careers and/or relationships without knowing why. It may be difficult to trust yourself or others. You may find it hard to communicate what you are feeling or thinking effectively. You may experience anxiety, such as panic attacks, restlessness, racing thoughts, or severe fatigue, depression and emotional instability. You may feel badly about yourself and struggle with low self-esteem. Whatever the case may be, when trauma is unresolved you may suffer emotionally, mentally and physically feel nervous system dis-regulation.
You are not alone. Trauma may begin as acute stress from a perceived life threat or an accumulation of stress from a series of events. Both types of stress can seriously impair a trauma survivors’ ability to function emotionally, mentally and physically. Trauma may result from a wide variety of stressors such as accidents, invasive medical procedures, sexual or physical assault, emotional abuse, neglect, war, natural disasters, loss, birth trauma, or the ongoing stressors of fear and conflict.
Many adults with a history of trauma take the blame for their unhappiness and often struggle to feel secure in their relationships and within themselves. Even if the traumatic event occurred years earlier, it is common to feel anxious, on-edge and self-conscious most of the time.
After experiencing trauma, we develop coping skills to help us survive but these strategies may not be healthy, and instead lead to communication and relationship issues, unhealthy boundaries, anxiety, depression, addiction, and other challenges.
The good news is Somatic Experiencing® is a treatment that have been proven to be an effective form of trauma therapy.
During safe and compassionate trauma therapy sessions, you and I will develop an individualized plan for your healing process, which can include Somatic Experiencing®.
Somatic Experiencing® is a form of trauma therapy that can provide the help and support you need to better understand your painful memories, resolve them, and move forward with your life. It is a body-awareness approach to trauma therapy that has been proven to alleviate and reduce the daily effects of stress, tension, depression, anxiety, and trauma.
In Somatic Experiencing® (SE) sessions, you and your trauma therapist will gain a deeper understanding of how your body reacted under previous circumstances that created disregulation. I will track what is happening in your body through sensation and support the release of nervous system activation and bound up survival energies that contribute to negative symptoms.
SE trauma treatment does not require an individual to re-tell or re-live the traumatic event. Instead, it offers the opportunity to engage, complete, and resolve—in a slow and supported way—the body’s instinctual fight, flight, and freeze responses. This ultimately resets the nervous system, restores inner balance, enhances resilience to stress, and increases ones vitality, equanimity, and capacity to actively engage in life.
What about the memories I can’t seem to forget?
Pushing your painful memories away or trying to bury the past can often make your symptoms worse. Identifying the ways in which it continues to disrupt your life may feel overwhelming. However, through trauma therapy, you will begin to move forward with greater confidence, trust and connection with yourself and others. Together, as we explore these challenges, you can develop a deeper understanding of the effects of trauma and gain more insight about your experiences and how you can heal and grow from these experiences.
How do I know which trauma treatment would work best for me?
Together, we will look at what issues you are struggling with, what your symptoms are, and the goals you have for treatment. Through our work together, I would recommend a trauma treatment method that would be appropriate for your mental health needs. After a few sessions, this may change because I can make any adjustments needed to support your process. As treatment continues, it may be appropriate to combine different trauma therapy treatments and utilize them at different times. By exploring a variety of options, you will have the opportunity to treat your symptoms in the most effective way possible.
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