Trauma and Abuse

Will My Past Pain Always Haunt Me?

It’s normal for past feelings to creep up in unexpected ways. If the abuse hasn’t been dealt with directly, your past pain tends to manifest itself in the present. Therapy helps put your past trauma to rest and close that chapter, so that it no longer effects how you think and feel in the future.

Trauma and abuse are similar, but different.

BOTH HAVING LONG LASTING EFFECTS ON AN INDIVIDUAL.

Trauma is a fear response to a threatening or shocking event. The more prolonged your exposure is to a traumatic event, the more severe the effects are.

Abuse is a direct offense on an individual. It’s exploitative, damaging, and hurtful. Abuse often occurs from your family as a child or romantic partner as an adult. Types of abuse include: physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, and/or economic.

Trauma and abuse can be buried in your past where it belongs.

Trauma/Abuse Symptoms

Depression

Anxiety/Fear

Relationship Conflict

Grief

Displaced Anger

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Personality Disorders

Low Self Esteem

Feeling Numb

Flashbacks

Sudden, Irrational Feelings

Counseling For Trauma/Abuse Will Help You

Therapy is clinically proven to help.

I use a Cognitive Behavioral Treatment to help better regulate your thoughts and feelings regardless of external circumstances. It’s a great way to shift from survival-based living to being more in control and resilient.

It takes practice but gets easier and more effective over time.

OUR GOAL IS FOR YOU TO:
  1. Identify whether you’ve been abused or experienced a traumatic event.

  2. Acknowledge how your past manifests itself in your life.

  3. Work through the pain directly.

  4. Develop healthier tendencies to address the historical triggers.


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