Counseling for Trauma
Most people will experience trauma in their lifetime whether it’s a car accident, abuse or neglect, the sudden death of a loved one, a violent criminal act, exposure to the violence of war, or a natural disaster.
While many people can recover from trauma over time with the love and support of family and friends and bounce back with resiliency, others may discover effects of lasting trauma, which can cause a person to live with deep emotional pain, fear, confusion, or posttraumatic stress far after the event has passed.
In these circumstances, the support, guidance, and assistance of a therapist is fundamental to healing from trauma.
Trauma Symptoms
According to the four types of symptoms listed in the DSM-5
Avoidance Symptoms
- Avoiding specific locations, sights, situations, and sounds that serve as reminders of the event
- Anxiety, depression, numbness, or guilt
Re-experiencing Symptoms
- Intrusive thoughts, nightmares or flashbacks
Hyper-arousal Symptoms
- Anger, irritability, and hypervigilance
- Aggressive, reckless behavior, including self-harm
- Sleep disturbances
Negative Mood and Cognition Symptoms
- Loss of interest in activities that were once considered enjoyable
- Difficulty remembering details of the distressing event
- Change in habits or behavior since the trauma
Dissociation
- spacey/daydreaming
- staring-not able to recall what happened
- intense mood shifts
- hearing voices or seeing things internally
- memory gaps
- time loss
- dream or fog like feeling
- observing one self doing something
- voice tone differences
- being called or being referred to by another name
- and many more symptoms
EVIDENCED-BASED Treatment
Research has proven psychotherapy specifically EMDR, Play and Expressive Arts Therapy, and TF-CBT to be the most effective form of treatment for trauma. Most commonly, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) are used in treating trauma.
If you or someone you know matches the trauma symptoms listed above, We are confident that we can help and invite you to contact me today for a free consultation.
With your clinicians permission, Theratapper is a device to use during your Trauma Treatment. Consultee's are able to purchase this device using the links below.