Issues like childhood trauma and domestic violence can be hard to overcome and impact every part of your life. The team at Counseling Forward of Austin, TX offers online Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) therapy, trauma therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Parts and Memory therapy sessions to help.
Overcoming Trauma Through Therapy
Trauma isn’t just about a one-time experience. It’s about reliving that experience and dealing with its impact continually. Childhood trauma can be sneaky, as we don’t always fully remember the event. However, that doesn’t minimize its impact – just our clarity of why we feel or respond the way we do to certain triggers.
Domestic violence can impact self-esteem, trust, the ability to maintain relationships, and much more. It can create intense fear and lead to isolation.
Although these are just two examples of types of trauma and how they affect us, a traumatic experience can be anything, including the loss of a loved one, being bullied in school, a breakup or divorce, military combat, an auto accident, and more. It’s not about the exact experience but the lasting impact and the symptoms it creates.
Symptoms of Trauma and How Therapy Can Help
Trauma can create many issues in a person’s life, including:
Physical symptoms, like nausea, dizziness, and breathing difficulties
Trouble sleeping or concentrating
Feeling hopeless
Inability to maintain a career or relationships
Avoidance behaviors
Therapy, including PTSD therapy, trauma therapy, and techniques like EMDR and Parts and Memory therapy can provide many benefits. The following are just a few.
Reframe your thinking: Often, we have negative thoughts and emotions surrounding a traumatic event, and justly so. However, there are times when those thoughts and emotions cause us to place limitations on ourselves or make unwarranted negative presumptions about new situations. Therapy can help you reframe your thinking around the event, which can minimize these tendencies.
Understand the event: It can be difficult to overcome an issue you don’t fully remember, but therapy can help you gain insight into how it affected you.
Learn to cope with triggers: As you heal, you’ll still be faced with triggers. Learning healthy ways to manage these triggers can reduce your symptoms.
Every individual’s experience is unique. The team at Counseling Forward in Austin, TX is committed to ensuring that the techniques used are specific to the individual’s needs, goals, symptoms, and triggers.
Learn more about how PTSD therapy, trauma therapy, EMDR, and Parts and Memory therapy can help you overcome childhood trauma, domestic violence, and other experiences. Call (737) 688-0017 to schedule an online appointment with the team at Counseling Forward of Austin, TX.
