Accident & Injury Trauma
Therapy relating to traumatic experiences like accidents, injuries, and their lasting impacts, including PTSD.
Sudden Loss
Support for shock, grief, and the disorientation that often follows a sudden loss.
Climate & Societal Trauma
The emotional tolls of collective crisis, environmental and natural disasters, and a less-certain world.
Childhood Trauma
Exploring the early experiences that shape how we see ourselves, others, and the world around us.
Abuse & Relational Trauma
Compassionate therapy for victims navigating the trauma of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.
Accident & Injury Trauma
Surviving an accident or serious injury can leave marks that go far beyond the physical. Intrusive memories, hyper-vigilance, avoidance, and a changed sense of self and safety are all common responses to these experiences.
Trauma therapy offers a structured path to processing what happened, and aims to help support the rebuilding of your sense of self, and security, in daily life.
Sudden Loss
When loss arrives without warning, the grief that follows can be traumatic, and feel destabilizing in ways that bereavement support doesn’t always address.
Therapy for the trauma of a sudden loss works to create a space to help process shock alongside grief, and to make sense of an experience that can feel impossible to understand and accept.
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Climate & Societal Trauma
Exposure to natural disasters, climate anxiety, or the ongoing stress of societal instability can wear on mental health in ways that are easy to dismiss or minimize.
Therapy in this area acknowledges these experiences as real sources of trauma. It aims to help people process fear, grief, and helplessness tied to those forces that feel much larger than themselves.
Childhood Trauma
Early experiences of neglect, instability, or harm have a way of shaping patterns that follow us into adulthood, often without our awareness.
Therapy for childhood trauma works at a measured pace to explore those foundational experiences, understand their impact, and aims to help gently shift the patterns they can create.
Abuse & Relational Trauma
Trauma rooted in abuse or harmful relationships carries its own particular complexity. This can include shame, self-doubt, and a disrupted sense of trust.
Therapy offers a consistent, safe, and non-judgmental space to process abuse and relational trauma, and aims to help people reclaim a sense of agency, and move toward healing on their terms.
Trauma Therapy FAQ
Explore some of the most frequently asked questions about trauma and protocol-based PTSD therapy.
Trauma therapy uses evidence-based, protocol-driven approaches to help people process, understand, and deal with distressing experiences. It’s about more than talking through events. Therapy aims to help uncover how trauma can be stored in the body and mind, while reducing the grip that it can have our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Trauma is defined by its impact. Experiences that result in things like persistent anxiety, intrusive memories, emotional numbness, or a changed sense of safety are just some of the results of trauma. Regardless of whether an experience feels “serious enough”, therapy is a safe place to explore and better-understand on your own terms.
Trauma refers more broadly to emotional responses to deeply distressing experiences. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is a clinical diagnosis for trauma responses that persist and significantly interfere with daily functioning. People experiencing trauma, as well as those specifically diagnosed with PTSD, can both benefit from therapy as a form of processing, understanding and building coping skills to help navigate the world around them.
Yes. Accidents and injuries are a primary source of trauma and PTSD. The purpose of therapy is to help address not just the memory of the event, but the hyper-vigilance, avoidance, and disrupted sense of safety that can often follow.
Therapy is an ongoing process. It does not promise fixed timelines, or even specific outcomes. Often, when people ask this, they’re really asking, “when might I see or feel a difference?”. Unfortunately, it depends. For some, starting therapy is a meaningful-enough first step that produces those first feelings of change. For others, noticeable change may take longer, and it’s possible that the outcome they seek will remain out of reach. That’s where having a therapist you trust becomes especially valuable: someone who can help to adapt the approach, and recommend additional options when needed.