Trauma Therapy
Trauma can deeply impact one’s ability to cope and function normally.
Therapy can help you explore and understand what happened to you so that you can heal.
Trauma
Understanding Trauma
Trauma can occur when someone experiences or witnesses an overwhelming or frightening event. These experiences can deeply affect a person’s ability to cope and function in daily life. Trauma may stem from a recent incident or be rooted in events from the past.
When trauma remains unresolved, a person may experience the same physical sensations, beliefs, and emotional responses they had during the original event — even if it happened years ago. This is often the foundation of post-traumatic stress.
Not everyone responds to traumatic events in exactly the same way. As Dr. Peter Levine, creator of Somatic Experiencing, explains, trauma lives in the body. The nervous system reacts instinctively: tensing in readiness, bracing in fear, or freezing in helplessness. In a healthy recovery, the body and mind gradually return to balance. When this restorative process is thwarted, the effects of trauma become fixed, and the person becomes traumatized.
Signs You May Be Living with Unresolved Trauma
You may be:
- Reliving or re-experiencing disturbing events
- Blaming yourself for something that happened in the past
- Avoiding people, places, or situations without knowing why
- Struggling to remember parts of a traumatic event
- Reacting strongly or going from 0 to 10 with little warning
- Losing hope for the future
- Feeling emotionally distant or disconnected from yourself and others
- Having difficulty concentrating or making decisions
- Experiencing intrusive thoughts, nightmares, or flashbacks
How I Can Help with Trauma
I believe the body holds the memory of our experiences, and healing begins when we learn to regulate our physiology while shifting limiting beliefs and emotions.
Using an integrated approach that blends Somatic Experiencing, Mindfulness, Hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, The Hakomi Method, and EMDR (including The Flash Technique, for quickly reducing the intensity of traumatic memories, The DuTur Protocol for Out Of Control Behavior and the Recent Traumatic Episode Protocols to prevent PTSD), I help patients:
- Understand and release trauma held in the body
- Regulate emotional states and physiological responses
- Cultivate self-worth, self-compassion, and resilience
- Reclaim hope, vitality, and a deeper connection to self and others
This approach helps you live life more fully as you heal the wounds from the past or present, recognize your unique strengths, and manage your limitations, enabling a deeper connection with yourself and others.
It’s a release of life energy that has been squelched.
For Acute Trauma
I use the R-TEP and G-TEP techniques, which are early intervention protocols for people who have experienced an acute trauma. These treatments are short term and designed to prevent consolidation of traumatic memories and experiences that lead to PTSD, while they increase a sense of control, calmness and well-being.
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