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Online trauma therapy serving adults throughout WA

It’s not you, it’s trauma.

You often feel disconnected from yourself, as if you don’t even know yourself.. You find it hard to connect to other people, even people you trust and love. You find it hard just to be around them, and you can’t even explain why, because you don’t fully understand the reasons yourself. You’ve developed all kinds of strategies to distract yourself and avoid your own thoughts and emotions. You try to relax and unwind, but sometimes that makes you feel even worse.

Sometimes things feel overwhelmingly painful and sometimes you don’t feel anything at all.

It’s like you are just going through the motions, but never really living. Never really engaging in your own life. This makes it hard to find meaning or fulfillment in your work and adds tension and distance to your relationships. It makes getting through each day exhausting.

 You’ve been carrying the weight of the past for far too long.

Healing isn’t just for everyone else.

Together, we’ll work on understanding the day to day responses and experiences that confuse you most. We’ll talk about common responses to trauma and ways these are protective, even when they seem to be doing the opposite. We’ll work on grounding, calming and containment skills to help you manage your daily life more effectively and make the process of trauma work more manageable.

The work won’t always be comfortable, but it will be safe.

When you’re ready, we’ll start doing the deeper work of addressing and resolving past traumatic experiences using EMDR therapy. We’ll go at your pace and, over time, you can learn to trust your own ability to heal and move forward in all the ways you are meant to.

Trauma therapy can help you…

 

  • Understand yourself, your reactions and your patterns more effectively

  • Identify experiences, thoughts, and emotions that are most likely to be challenging for you

  • Learn new ways of managing these challenging reactions when they arise

  • Develop compassion for yourself and your experiences

  • Engage with others in your life more authentically and openly

  • Experience less fear about transitions or aspects of life that are not in your control

  • Identify and connect with the parts of yourself that have been hidden or invisible

You can let go of the past, and create a better future.

Frequently asked questions about trauma therapy

FAQs

  • Trauma is often experienced by combat veterans, AND there are multiple types of traumatic experiences and trauma reactions. Experiences like abuse, physical or sexual assault, severe neglect, life-threatening injuries or illnesses, and witnessing violence can all result in very similar symptoms and struggles. Trauma is not defined by the severity of what happened, but by the reactions to it. This is why comparing your experiences to another person’s is irrelevant and unhelpful.

  • Sometimes trauma is the result of things NOT happening to us that we needed to happen. Examples of this might mean growing up in a home where all of your practical needs were met, but your parent or caregiver was not emotionally available to you. Or maybe the significant relationships in your life were very conditional and inconsistent. Maybe they frequently involved various forms of manipulation, and were emotionally unsafe. This can create relational or attachment-based trauma, which results in many of the same responses and symptoms involved with more overt types of traumatic experiences, and can be just as damaging. Trauma counseling can help with this too.

  • You might have tried talk therapy before, and found that just talking about your past experiences didn’t help, maybe you even felt worse. In order to really move forward, we have to understand the experiences that created our current struggles. But we don’t need to dwell on it or stay there. EMDR therapy is different than talk therapy, and only involves talking about the past in the context of understanding and resolving it. Find out more about EMDR therapy here.

  • EMDR is a specific type of therapy developed to help process past experiences at a deeper level than talk therapy alone.

    Learn more here

 

Trauma therapy for:

 

Adult survivors who experienced:

  • Physical, mental, emotional, and/or sexual abuse

  • Physical or sexual assault

  • Severe neglect

  • Witnessing extreme violence or death

  • Life-threatening illnesses or injuries

Trauma therapy also for:

 

Anyone whose parents or caregivers were:

  • Emotionally unavailable (cold, distant, uninvolved, etc.)

  • Manipulative

  • Available conditionally and/or inconsistently

  • Emotionally unsafe

  • Physically not present much of the time