Trauma Therapy

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Are You Developing Negative Patterns Of Thinking?

If you experienced trauma as a child in the form of sexual, physical, or emotional abuse, you may be struggling with unresolved issues from the past. Or if you are a survivor of intimate partner violence, it’s possible you struggle with emotional and mental disruptions that keep you from being present. You may experience intrusive thoughts or feelings of guilt, shame, and low self-esteem. Or perhaps you find yourself constantly worried about being alone or abandoned, resulting in issues of codependency.

On the other hand, your trauma may not have occurred at the hands of one person, but rather as a result of an entire system engineered toward the abuse and suppression of minorities. You might maintain distrust in others and feel a need to be self-sufficient in all aspects of your life, despite wanting help. As you internalize your feelings, you may notice physical symptoms like chronic pain, muscle tension, and a sense of panic just under the surface.

You don’t need to mask your emotions, nor do you need to be alone in processing them. As a whole and dynamic person who is worthy of love and healing, you are capable of confronting and processing your trauma in order to achieve healthy and fulfilling relationships. Let Healing Springs Wellness Center offer you guidance along the way.

What Does Life After Trauma Feel Like?

Healing takes time and courage—the courage to confront, to say that you are not okay, and to ask for help. Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step, and Healing Springs Wellness Center is here for the rest of the journey. Your feelings are valid, and you don’t have to be alone in feeling them. It is possible to heal and find relief from trauma!

Falling into cycles of toxic relationships or communication styles as a result of feeling hurt, betrayed, or abandoned in the past.
Struggling to create meaningful boundaries in an effort to achieve harmony and balance in your life.
Cchronic pain, muscle tension, and a sense of panic just under the surface.

An adverse life experience or trauma led to feelings of panic, anxiety, or overwhelm, impacting your sense of peace.
Experiencing intrusive thoughts or feelings of guilt, shame, and low self-esteem.
Feeling a constant sense of panic.
Internalizing your feelings.

Finding yourself constantly worried about being alone or abandoned, resulting in issues of codependency.
Maintaining a distrust in others and feel a need to be self-sufficient in all aspects of your life, despite wanting help.
Masking your emotions.
Isolation and reclusiveness.

The Nature Of Trauma Is Cyclical And Systemic

Trauma is a common and unfortunate component of being human. Most of us will experience some variation of trauma in our lives—though traumatic experiences look different across generational, racial, gender, and socio-economic lines. For instance, half of women will experience a highly traumatic event, often taking the form of sexual abuse or assault. Women are also more likely to be subject to child neglect or experience physical abuse and domestic violence at home.

On the other hand, cultural identity, ethnicity, and sexual orientation among all groups may lead to chronic stressors. Social bias, discrimination, and oppression all have the power to increase psychological trauma and PTSD in marginalized individuals. Generational trauma in the Black community in particular has led to negative patterns and beliefs that span lifetimes, causing the trauma of previous generations to be imprinted onto the next. Black women in particular, given the heightened occurrence and likelihood of adverse experiences, are often pressured to minimize difficult experiences or upsetting emotions in an effort to maintain the strong demeanor that is expected of them.

Regardless of your age, race, gender, or trauma, it is likely you are presenting the same symptoms of hyperstimulation, re-experience, avoidance, and numbing associated with PTSD. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study has demonstrated that unresolved trauma can have costly physical and mental consequences, including increased likelihood for illness and disease. While becoming emotionally vulnerable can be a scary prospect, Healing Springs Wellness Center aims to create the safe space and support you need in navigating trauma through therapy.

Therapy Can Help You Reprocess And Heal From Trauma

As professional counselors, we have the experience and training necessary to effectively guide you through the process of healing and transformation. We take a compassionate and transparent solution-focused approach that offers sustainable and concrete techniques for coping—all tailored to meet the needs of each individual.

Using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and holistic therapy methods, we will help you locate the answers within your body so that you can move beyond fears, life stressors, and toxic patterns. By counseling the whole person, we can address the physical and emotional trauma that is likely stored in your body and manifesting as intense emotions and physical pain.

After performing an intake assessment that goes over your symptoms and goals for treatment, we will help to determine the counselor that is best suited to help you navigate your experience with trauma. Once a trusted and safe relationship is established, we will review your history to get a sense of what support systems you developed to protect yourself during childhood and throughout your life. We will also explore your early relationships and your style of emotional attachment. We will then help you to develop grounding skills, such as mindfulness techniques, deep breathing exercises, and visualization strategies for handling emotional distress. As your cognitive framework shifts, you’ll begin to see negative thoughts and uncomfortable symptoms dissipate.

Finally, we will target traumatic memories and the negative self-beliefs and bodily sensations that they are producing. Depending on your need for either EMDR or a form of behavioral counseling such as Cognitive Behavioral or Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (CBT or DBT), we will assist you in reprocessing memories in a way that is more functional and beneficial to your overall mental health. Along the way, you will be better prepared to confront irrational thoughts and intense feelings, so that you can cultivate a refreshed sense of confidence and heightened self-esteem. In desensitizing the traumatic memories from your past, they will maintain less power over your life and be less capable of inflicting pain.

Learn to Understand and Cope With Your Trauma in Healthy Ways

If unresolved trauma from your past has caused cycles of anxiety and/or toxic relationships in your life, therapy at Healing Springs Wellness Center can help you to confront and process your pain. Schedule a FREE 15-minute consultation to find out how we can help.

Can I just speak to a family member or friend about the issues I am having?

While it’s great to have support from your loved ones, they might not be able to offer you the unbiased perspective that a therapist can provide. Family and friends can be great allies, but it is important to a have trained professional who will support you and create a safe environment to explore your challenges without judgment. Counseling can help you practice self-compassion, find self-acceptance, and see your trauma through curious lenses versus coming to the situation with the preconceptions or bias of others.

It’s too scary to face my emotions; I would rather ignore them.

Intense emotions and frightening memories are a reliable indicator of unresolved trauma, unmet needs, or lack of balance in our lives. If we do not acknowledge the source of our pain, we create deeper wounds. This acknowledgement requires identifying feelings, being brave enough to open the Pandora’s Box of our history, and being authentic with ourselves so we can learn the origins of our guilt and shame.

Emotions will not vanish simply because you wish to not feel them. Your emotions want to be heard and validated, not ignored. Therapy can shed light on your PTSD or trauma and why it’s so difficult to focus on your needs, or why you are scared to be alone in your thoughts.

Will I have to talk about my traumatic experience right away?

No. At Healing Springs Wellness Center, we are invested in creating a strong foundation for the therapist-client relationship so that you can feel safe and comfortable in discussing your trauma with a counselor. That’s why we first teach you the skills to manage presenting symptoms before focusing on your trauma. We want you to feel secure in being emotionally vulnerable throughout the process of trauma therapy, which is why we will never pressure you to go too deep too quickly.