Trauma Recovery
- Trauma is the emotional, physical, psychological reactions caused by a stressful event that disrupts your sense of safety, making you feel helpless. When we are placed in a situation whereby our sense of security is compromised or lost it is normal for our bodies to react to the situation and to naturally heal and recover.
- Overcoming sexual, physical, emotional, and psychological abuse.
- Working with emotional and behavioral problems exhibited by young school-age children (ages 6-9) with developmental trauma.
Stress Management
The American Psychological Association (2021) defines stress as “the physiological or psychological response to internal or external stressors. Stress involves changes affecting nearly every system of the body, influencing how people feel and behave. For example, it may be manifested by palpitations, sweating, dry mouth, shortness of breath, fidgeting, accelerated speech, augmentation of negative emotions (if already being experienced), and longer duration of stress fatigue”.
We all suffer some stress and anxiety in our lives it is normal and is our body way of motivating us to keep doing the things we love and working towards our goals. Stress may affect us in many forms such as, emotional, mental, or physical. Chronic stress can cause maladaptive behaviors and may inhibit you from completing your daily task and important goals. Learning healthy coping mechanisms can assist you to live better.
With treatment, people can learn to relieve their stress and live more enjoyable lives.
Anxiety
Do you keep worrying and often experience restlessness, irritability, sleepless nights? If your anxiety, worry, and other associated symptoms make it hard to carry out day-to-day activities and responsibilities, causing problems in your relationships, at work, or in other important areas of life you may be suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD).
We can help to manage your anxiety disorders via psychotherapy, using trauma techniques such as:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches you to recognize maladaptive thought patterns and behaviors that lead to troublesome feelings. We then work with you on changing your thought patterns thus leading to behavioral changes.
Exposure therapy focuses on dealing with the fears behind the anxiety disorder. It helps you engage with activities or situations you may have been avoiding. Combining different relaxation and mindful techniques in our treatment may help you decrease the rate of your anxiety.
