Trauma Therapy

Trauma therapy is a specialized form of psychotherapy that helps people safely process and heal from overwhelming or distressing experiences. These experiences might include childhood, relational, identity-based, developmental, complex, medical, sexual, workplace, and single-event traumas.

Rather than focusing only on what happened, trauma therapy explores how your body, mind, and relationships have been affected - and helps you reconnect with a sense of safety, stability, and self-trust.

Therapeutic Modalities

You don’t need a diagnosis to deserve support. Trauma therapy can help if you:

  • Feel anxious, overwhelmed, or “on-edge” more often than not

  • Struggle with emotional regulation

  • Struggle with dissociation, disconnection or emotional shut-downs

  • Experience flashbacks, nightmares, or intrusive thoughts

  • Avoid situations that remind you of something painful

  • Feel stuck in patterns of people-pleasing, perfectionism, or self-criticism

  • Have difficulty trusting others or forming safe relationships

  • Carry a sense of shame, guilt, or not being “good enough”

  • For some trauma survivors, emotions can feel overwhelming or unpredictable. DBT helps build essential skills to regulate emotions, manage distress without self-harm or shutdown, and improve communication in relationships, making it easier to stay grounded when triggers arise.

  • IFS works with “parts” of you - like the inner critic, the protector, or the wounded child - so they can be understood and healed. This gentle, self-compassionate approach restores internal harmony and helps you reconnect with your core Self.

  • Early trauma - especially in relationships, can lead to fear, avoidance, or insecurity in how we connect. This approach explores your attachment patterns and helps repair relational wounds, so you can build safe, nourishing connections in the present.

  • CPT is a structured, trauma-focused therapy that helps you understand how traumatic experiences have impacted your beliefs about yourself, others, and the world. It focuses on identifying and changing “stuck points”( unhelpful thoughts like “I should have done more” or “I can’t trust anyone”) that keep trauma symptoms going.

  • Polyvagal and somatic approaches help you understand and gently shift how your nervous system responds to stress, safety, and connection. This work focuses on tuning into your body’s cues, like tension, numbness, or shutdown, and using grounding, movement, and breath to support regulation.