Trauma recovery therapy in WA

Move from surviving to thriving

Let me guess…

Do you find yourself stuck in the past or having reactions that are hard to understand?

Trauma is an experience that overwhelms our ability to regulate our emotions and remain present. Perhaps you have been struggling with intense anxiety, painful memories, or overwhelming feelings that are not going away. You might find yourself avoiding certain people and situations. Perhaps you are struggling with a sense of numbness or feeling “not really there” or disconnected from yourself.

Often in the aftermath of trauma, we develop strategies to help ourselves cope with the overwhelming emotions. This might look like avoidance, numbness, dissociation, perfectionism, eating disorders, self harm, to name a few. This is a normal occurrence after experiencing trauma. We can work together to have compassion for those strategies while working on new coping skills.

It can feel overwhelming to consider beginning trauma therapy. I am here to remind you, you don’t need to begin alone. Together we can help you unburden yourself from the past and live life on your terms.

Reconnect. Reclaim. Restore.

Trauma therapy can help you return to yourself and live life authentically.

When trauma happens, it disconnects you from yourself, your body, and/or your relationships. Therapy gives an opportunity for reconnection to happen in a safe, contained space.

While trauma and its aftermath often happens in isolation, you will not have to heal alone. I will walk alongside you throughout the whole process.

My approach to trauma therapy is rooted in empowerment- supporting you to listen to your body so you can tune into its internal wisdom and finally feel safe again. For those who are curious about specifics, I use a combination of EMDR, somatic regulation techniques, and am IFS informed.

What we’ll work on

Here’s what we’ll do together:

  • I use a three phase approach to help folks heal from trauma: stabilizing, reprocessing and integrating.

    • Stabilizing: here we will look at your current life and work to build coping skills to make life easier to live right now. This might include new coping skills, reconnecting with your body (at your own pace!), and exploring current relationships.

    • Reprocessing: processing past events that are impacting your current life. You will always have agency to which parts of your story you want to focus on.

    • Integration: here we will take the learning from reprocessing and apply it to your life now. This can mean making sense of the freedom you feel from your past and exploring your vision for the future.

  • These three steps can be non-linear and are always taken at your pace.

FAQS

What others have wondered about trauma recovery therapy.

  • No! You are always welcome to share any parts of your story, but it is not a requirement in order to heal.

  • If you are reading this page, I am guessing you have something from your past that you sense is impacting your life right now. You deserve healing and support, regardless of how you define the event.

  • That is ok! That is a common experience, especially if the trauma happened during younger childhood. I can help folks heal and reprocess trauma, even if they can not remember it.

More questions? Check out my FAQs page.

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