Trauma Recovery
Recovering from frightening events
Recovering from stressful and frightening experiences takes time, courage, and self-love. Therapy is a place to process the complex thoughts and feelings related to trauma recovery in a safe and compassionate environment.
People come to therapy to process:
Acute Stressors: These are single-incidents such as car accidents, urgent and unplanned medical procedures, natural disasters, and attacks on personal safety
Chronic Stressors: Often long-standing stressors like adverse childhood experiences, repeatedly placed in unsafe situations, growing up in a high-control community, or working in a toxic professional environment
Returning Stressors: Past traumas can resurface during different milestones of life and impact an individual’s peace and sense of self.
What kind of goals do clients explore in therapy?
Individuals recovering from trauma may explore many goals in therapy, such as:
Understanding different reactions to trauma like people pleasing, avoidance, and immobilization
Managing distressing feelings with skills and kindness
Community building and identifying supports
Helping the body understand safety
Sharing your whole story in a safe and structured environment
Finding new ways of coping that increase health, choice, and safety
Having V as your therapist
To best support you, I use an integrated approach. My training is in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and I find that Narrative, Culturally-Responsive, Psychodynamic, and Somatic modalities often enter the therapy space, too.
This means we may explore how your thoughts, feelings, and actions impact your recovery and the life ahead. We may use in-the-moment skills to regulate the body and safely rebuild the body-heart-mind connection.
