Trauma/Resilience-Informed Therapy
There are many ways that we can experience and respond to traumatic experiences.
You may have experienced clear events that violated your sense of safety, such as an accident, physical assault, sexual violence, school shooting, or acute medical illness. Or you might have experienced more pervasive or normalized experiences of trauma, such as constant criticisms from a loved one, witnessing intimate partner violence, living in socioeconomic poverty, or being bullied at school for your gender presentation, skin color or body shape. There is no hierarchy to trauma, and your pain is valid.
We use a trauma and resilience-informed approach that incorporates how traumatic experiences impact our minds, spirits, as well as our physical bodies.
You may find yourself avoiding any reminders of the trauma that are impacting your ability to live your life fully, or feel stuck in endless loops of reliving the traumatic experience. You might be blaming yourself for what has happened to you, or at times feel disconnected from your body. You may feel emotionally numb or your emotional vulnerability may be increasingly high. Your trauma can’t be undone, but it can take up less space in your life. You can reclaim a sense of control over yourself and your environment. We hope to support you in harnessing your own inherent ability to process and integrate your trauma experiences.
We address the trauma at all levels, from the body, to the mind, to the spirit.
We can support you in developing self-soothing and grounding strategies to de-escalate when you are feeling activated. We can support you in processing and releasing the remanants of trauma on a neurological, somatic level (please refer to Brainspotting for more information). We can also work with you in reframing the story of what happened to you where YOU are the protagonist, while identifying areas of power and control . We can support you in reframing cognitive myths about yourself and others, and making meaning of your experiences (please refer to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for more information). Reprieve is possible.