Trauma-informed therapy is an approach that guides us in creating a safe environment that empowers you to find healing.
Trauma-informed care provides a foundation for the trust and resources that people need in order to work with emotional struggles and to change how those challenges impact them today. When you feel safe in therapy, you can learn and grow from challenging experiences toward greater wellbeing.
Trauma-informed therapy is the key to understanding your experiences, without becoming flooded, overwhelmed, or re-traumatized when bringing up painful issues.
Trauma-informed care (TIC) makes the process of therapy as safe, productive and beneficial to you as possible.
Who can benefit from trauma-Informed therapy?
Even if you think your issues have nothing to do with trauma, you can benefit tremendously from working with a trauma-informed therapist. You are working with someone who is aware of the impact of emotional and psychological stress on the mind and body. A trauma-informed therapist will use that awareness to help you in every way possible.
TIC recognizes that emotionally overwhelming experiences — or traumas — lie at the root of many mental, emotional and behavioral challenges people want to heal. Because the person seeking therapy may not see the connection, we take responsibility to keep ourselves informed about the impact of trauma so we can help a person safely explore their experiences in therapy.
What do we mean by trauma?
Trauma can come from any experience in which a person feels endangered. Trauma can happen regardless of the circumstances or how others react to the same situation. Trauma impacts the
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