Trauma Informed
Trauma informed care takes a close look at how trauma impacts individuals’ lives. It recognizes that it’s effects can be profoundly damaging regardless of race, social status, gender, sexual orientation, or culture. This approach emphasizes universal values, including safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, and empowerment, to support the healing process.
What can you expect when you work with a trauma informed therapist? Understanding your unique experiences in order to create an environment where you feel emotionally safe is the priority. Once established, you will be prepared to address the life events that are creating your symptoms. As a result of this process, you will build a sense of security, which helps reduce feelings of anxiety and hypervigilance, empowering you to move toward healing and resilience.
This process empowers you to recognize your own strength and resilience. You actively build on your abilities and capacities, identifying and embracing your inner resources. Once you recognize that some behaviors stem from trauma responses and understand that they are no longer necessary, you are free to move forward with greater confidence and control.
Trauma Focused CBT
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a specialized form of CBT designed primarily for children and adolescents who have experienced trauma. The process facilitates the movement from fear and dysregulation, to learning that the bad thing is over and I’m safe now. A key component of TF-CBT is active involvement of a parent or guardian throughout the therapeutic process. They are educated about trauma, how to recognize their child’s patterns and ways to help them regulate. This combination allows continuous progress outside of therapy sessions.
These therapists offer TF-CBT:
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing
EMDR has been around since the late 1980’s. It takes advantage of natural brain processes to ‘thaw’ memories that have been ‘frozen’ in time. These memories lay the foundation to current struggles (depression, anxiety, PTSD). Once the memory is processed, it no longer influences how we think and feel about ourselves and the world.
Learn more about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.
These therapists offer EMDR: Barbara, Heather, Lee Ann and Madeline
