Therapy for Trauma

Trauma can show up in many ways: overwhelm, shutdown, anger, spacing out, and ‘functional freeze’, just to name a few. Even after you feel like you’ve “done the work” through therapy and other healing methods, something can trigger a need for more trauma healing: a new relationship, a new job role, new responsibilities, or even learning new information. This is very normal, even if you feel like you should be able to figure it out.

Maybe you’ve been in therapy in the past, and the skills that worked in the past to help you calm and regulate aren’t doing it anymore

You may be having big reactions to loved ones, and it doesn’t make logical sense to you.

Perhaps You need support to set, communicate and hold the boundaries that you need.

You’ve done the work in therapy, and you understand how your childhood affects you now, but you need tools to manage your nervous system dysregulation.


Expressive arts therapy

Expressive arts therapy is effective for trauma because it engages the senses that are affected by trauma in unpredictable ways. Expressive arts can be calming, soothing, insightful and can help with post-traumatic growth.


Brainspotting

Brainspotting is a “brain-body based” therapy that can help you to heal past traumas. What helps is that the Brainspotting method is also engaging the parts of the brain that help with neurobiological regulation.