Childhood Trauma Therapy

What is Childhood Trauma?

Childhood trauma includes any serious adverse childhood experience, such as abuse, neglect, abandonment, witnessing abuse, having a mentally ill parent, and more.

These events can have severe lasting impacts even years later, resulting in things like complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (cPTSD), neurodevelopmental disorders, social problems, poor physical health, and more. Basically, childhood trauma is the cause of most of our problems today.

Do you struggle with anxiety, depression, emotional regulation, social difficulties, poor health, or other issues?

Why Childhood Trauma Therapy?

Just look at some of the stats below. Childhood trauma causes SO MANY of our problems. And while most adults have experienced childhood trauma, we typically aren’t taught how to cope with it in school, in our families, from our friends, etc.

Did you read that quote in the middle? Let’s say it again for the people in the back. “Adverse childhood experiences [a.k.a. childhood traumas] are the single greatest unaddressed public health threat facing our nation today.” What?!!?! Why are people not shouting from the rooftops about this, demanding more/better mental health services or psychoeducation or public funding or hugs or ice cream socials or anything and everything that can possibly help?!?

We don’t know the answer to that, but we do know that facing and processing childhood trauma is important work that must be done if we want our lives to improve. And we are here for it.

There are wounds that never show on the body, that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

How Childhood Trauma Therapy Can Help

All those scary statistics above? They’re not set in stone. You can take steps to minimize the affects of childhood trauma and build a healthy, fulfilling life that you actually enjoy. Trauma counseling can help.

Traumatic experiences leave us with reminders. These can be people, places, things, situations, anniversaries, emotions, or bodily sensations. The traumatic event may have happened years ago, but the reminders can take your mind and body right back to that moment no matter how much time has passed.

So if you were attacked by a dog as a kid, you may feel fearful and notice your heart rate increase whenever you see a dog now. Or maybe you were abandoned by a parent and now you feel panicky at the thought of not being in a relationship. Identifying and addressing these trauma responses is an important step toward leading a life in which you can respond to stressors in a healthy way rather than simply reacting based on something that happened long ago.

Our goal is to help you feel safe, supported, and knowledgeable about what you’re experiencing. To help you find answers and a path forward. We have trauma-informed therapists who can help you with:

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