Awakenings Trauma Therapists Are Specially Trained
Awakenings has several therapists trained in treating post traumatic stress syndrome and crisis by providing trauma-informed therapy. Our counselors for trauma will work in three stages to help with trauma recovery:
- Establish safety, rapport and an empathic therapy relationship. – You will need to feel safe in your body and the therapeutic relationship. Learn how to regulate overwhelming emotions in trauma therapy.
- Remembering and mourning your losses and injuries. – Our trauma therapists will help you deal with your memories, integrate and process them so the injuries can be mourned. We can’t change what happened but we can change how we feel about what happened with appropriate trauma counseling.
- Reconnection and Integration. – Finding meaning in life while living with a history of trauma can give you a new sense of yourself and hope for the future. Unprocessed trauma keeps you locked in the past, trauma therapy helps you move forward.
Our therapists with training in trauma recovery will ask questions about abuse and or exposure to traumatic events when the time is right but will not avoid going toward the painful, difficulties that need to be explored and processed.
Support for Families and Loved Ones of Trauma Survivors
Fatigue and compassion burnout are common complications when you have a loved one dealing with trauma. You may feel guilty that you feel stress and are tired of dealing with their pain especially after all they have gone through. But you don’t have to cope alone with your family member or partner who has dealt with sexual, physical or emotional abuse. We will support you as a couple or family to deal with trauma and it’s negative consequence of post traumatic stress syndrome. At Awakenings, our trauma therapists help families and couples recover when one member has been exposed to trauma.
What is Trauma?
Trauma is a deeply disturbing event or experience. A single event like: a car accident, a fall, being the victim of a violent crime, rape, terrorism, an argument that becomes physical – all are examples of terrible trauma where memories get stored in the brain so that a person can survive initially and hopefully process later. Oftentimes people do not know they should or how to process these memories so that they stop haunting and hurting them.
Repeated trauma might be experienced by domestic violence victims, deployed soldiers, children living with violent and neglectful parents, molested children, and people exposed to racism. This type of trauma causes deep, personal damage because of it’s repetition and layering.
Micro-traumas that occur chronically like living in poverty, emotional abuse, and parental criticism also negatively shape our personality. They limit our potential for living joyfully and fully.
Develop Resiliency Through Trauma Counseling
Feel stronger about moving forward. Reduce feeling or anxiety and reactivity. Stop the flashbacks and dissociation. Enter relationships with trust and peace again with trauma therapy.
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