ONLINE THERAPY FOR TRAUMA IN TEXAS & CALIFORNIA
Trauma Therapy
HELPING YOU WORK THROUGH YOUR PAINFUL PAST EXPERIENCES SO YOU CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH PEACE AND CONFIDENCE AGAIN
You’ve been dealing with this on your own for a long time now.
You’ve told yourself that what you experienced was “no big deal”. “Other people have it worse”. Or maybe you even believe you’re being dramatic, exaggerating your reaction to what happened. You may feel that it's a waste of time to keep “hashing it out” with yet another therapist. You should be over it by now, right?
Maybe you have even shielded your closest family members from the details of what you experienced because you don’t want to burden them and you want to shield them from the details of your painful past.
No one can know exactly what you experienced but the idea of opening up to someone else and getting “pity” in return just makes you feel shittier. And what’s worse, if you open up, you risk feeling embarrassed and guilty or like a burden, so you find it’s just best to keep it all to yourself.
Unfortunately, it’s gotten to a point where now, the effects of carrying around the weight of this experience isn’t just affecting you, but the people you love most. If there’s one thing you’re NOT going to allow to happen, it’s to have your past experiences affect these special people.
Maybe you feel like the fact that you’re still wrestling with this experience makes you somehow inadequate or a failure.
Y O U ‘R E N O T!
Maybe you feel like this event shouldn’t be making you feel the way you feel because it wasn’t a life threatening experience...
I’m here to tell you that trauma doesn’t have to be a single catastrophic life-threatening experience for it to be considered traumatic and distressing to your brain and body.
Sometimes trauma can actually be a lot more like carbon monoxide poisoning. Relatively undetectable, slow in its approach, but extremely life threatening if left untreated.
You have done what you needed to do to get through your difficult life experiences.
Now that you have moved through that tough place, I want you to know that you deserve to feel better and you can choose how you heal.
My Approach:
The work that we’ll do together will be extremely unique to you. Where we start, how we start, and how much we focus on any painful life events will all be determined by your existing resources, coming into treatment, and your individual goals for trauma therapy. I take a holistic view of trauma treatment and that means that I am not only interested in reducing your symptoms, but I also want to help you identify and heal the root that’s driving your symptoms to the surface.
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.Identify.
Together we’ll explore what’s brought you in, set goals for our time together and then we’ll identify any traumatic experience[s] you want to address in our time together. We’ll identify the negative stories, aka the root, that’s influencing your recent reactivity and distress.
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.Coping Skills.
Together we’ll look at what coping skills you currently have. We will work to add in additional skills that can support you as we explore painful past experiences. We will finetune or tweak any existing coping skills you have to ensure you can respond to stressors more effectively in the future.
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.Insight.
You’ll build new understanding about the experience you’ve lived through as well as learn to challenge the negative stories impacting your functioning. You will learn to better understand your body, its reactions and develop and sustain new ways to effectively manage your reactions in the future.
FAQS
What others have asked about online Trauma Therapy
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We sometimes think the designation of “trauma” is reserved for those who have survived war, abuse, and violent crimes.
I’m here to tell you, you don’t have to experience abuse and violence to have experienced trauma.
Experiences like:
growing up with an emotionally distant parent[s],
divorce,
relationship issues,
moving to a new city (or state or country),
betrayal,
life transitions,
work transitions,
accidents,
bullying
loss of a parent, partner, sibling, child
are often traumatic and talking about it and processing your experience can help you heal and move forward.
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When I work with my clients, it is my goal to get you where you want to be as quickly and safely as clinically possible. That said, I do not recommend meeting any less than every other week. Ideally, if our schedules align, we are working weekly on your goals to help you process these traumatic life events and develop the tools to manage your experiences more effectively and get you feeling like you again!
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Trauma counseling can help you:
Set healthier boundaries around your time, energy and relationship
Identify and process the trauma you’ve experienced in your life
Choose effective coping skills to better manage your emotions
Build confidence that you can control your emotions and behaviors again
Feel like your badass self again!
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Click the button below to schedule a free 15-minutes consultation with me. I can’t wait to connect with you and dive in!
More questions? Check out my FAQs page.
