Post Traumatic Stress

Trauma can come from many different experiences: violence and attacks, accidents, or years of physical and/or emotional neglect. 

With PTSD or CPTSD (complex trauma), your mind believes that it is still in that unsafe moment.  When we live with chronic unsafe feeling we are more anxious, on edge, irritable, sad or depressed.  

Sometimes it brings repetitive, intrusive memories of traumatic events, nightmares and insomnia, changes to memory, attention, and perception, destructive behavior, and misuse of substances.

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How can trauma be treated?

• Talk Therapy-- it's important to heal the emotional wound left by trauma through many therapeutic techniques, one in particular is EMDR

• Medications-- there are no medications dedicated to PTSD but many can help you manage symptoms like insomnia, nightmares, anxiety, depression, and substance use so that you can focus on your healing journey

• Somatic therapies- trauma stays in your body. Movement can help it to release so that you can move on.