Service Description
Trauma can have a significant impact on a person’s life. Whether it stems from childhood, a singular event or repetitive experiences, trauma can challenge the way you see and relate to the world. Trauma can put strain on your interpersonal relationships and make it harder to form and sustain secure and healthy relationships, as well as impact your sense of emotional and physical safety.
By providing a calm and trusting environment where you feel respected and supported, this type of therapy honours your individual journey and adjusts to your needs. It will help you identify traumatic triggers, develop grounding skills to self-regulate emotions, gain empowering knowledge, and process traumatic experiences to enhance your quality of life. It helps you connect your mind, body and brain to strengthen cognitive control, increase self-compassion and restructure neural pathways through a holistic approach.
Whether you experienced trauma characterised by heightened stress, shock, violence emotional neglect, loss, alienation or injury, some of the symptoms you might experience are:
• Hypervigilance
• Hyperarousal
• Impulsive action
• Impaired social and professional functioning
• Intense feelings of fear and helplessness
• Survivor’s guilt
• Depression
• Numbness
• Re-experiencing of the trauma
• Avoidance of traumatic reminders
• Nightmare and flashbacks