Trauma can continue to affect your life long after the event has passed.
Like seeds planted beneath the surface, painful experiences can shape the way we think, feel, and respond to the world around us. Therapy can help identify these patterns, promote healing, and create lasting change.
Our therapists provide trauma therapy for children, teens, and adults using evidence-based approaches tailored to each individual's needs and experiences.
What is Trauma?
Psychological trauma is an emotional response to a deeply distressing or overwhelming event or series of events. Trauma can affect the way we think, feel, relate to others, and respond to stress—even long after the event has ended. Trauma can contribute to extreme anxiety, anger, sadness, relationship issues, sleep problems, or PTSD.
These traumatic experiences can influence the way we see ourselves, relate to others, and respond to the world around us—but they do not have to define our future.
Trauma may stem from major life events…
- A car crash
- A violent assault
- Adverse childhood experiences
- Abuse
- Surviving a natural disaster
- Medical events
...or from ongoing experiences that feel overwhelming or emotionally unsafe.
- Teasing or bullying in school
- A bad experience with public speaking
- Chronic stress
- Relationship ruptures
- Repeated microaggressions
- Chronic illness
Signs Trauma May Be
Affecting You:
- Feeling constantly on edge
- Intrusive and unwanted memories
- Difficulty trusting others
- Avoiding reminders of distressing experiences
- Anxiety or panic
- Emotional “numbness”
- Sleep difficulties
- Feeling "stuck"
Trauma doesn't always look like trauma
Many people assume trauma only results from life-threatening events. In reality, trauma may show up as perfectionism, anxiety, people-pleasing, emotional overwhelm, difficulty trusting others, difficulty relaxing or feeling constantly on guard. Sometimes the symptoms are easier to recognize than the experiences that caused them.
Healing doesn't mean forgetting
what happened
It means reducing the emotional impact of those experiences so they no longer control your life.
The good news is that our brains are capable of healing. With the right support, traumatic memories can become less overwhelming, helping you feel safer, more connected, and more like yourself again.
How Therapy Helps
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to trauma therapy. Our clinicians use evidence-based treatments tailored to each individual's experiences, symptoms, and goals.
Evidence-Based Approaches to Trauma Therapy:
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): During EMDR, your therapist guides you through bilateral stimulation (such as eye movements or tapping) while helping your brain process difficult memories in a healthier way.
- Brain Spotting: A trauma-informed therapy that uses specific eye positions to help access and process experiences that may be stored deep in the brain and body. It can be effective for trauma, anxiety, performance concerns, and other emotional challenges.
- Somatic Experiencing: A body-centered approach to healing trauma and chronic stress by helping regulate the nervous system. It focuses on physical sensations to reduce the impact of trauma, relieve stress, and build resilience.
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT): is a specialized form of therapy designed to help children and teens heal after traumatic or distressing experiences. It teaches coping skills, helps process difficult memories, and supports both children and their caregivers throughout the healing process.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): CBT therapy focuses on the client’s thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. The goal is to shift unhelpful thinking patterns and develop healthier ways of responding to life's challenges.
- Graduated Exposure Therapy and Systematic Desensitization: These interventions expose the client to the memory and triggers in a safe place. The therapist helps a person with any distress that may arise.