Post-Traumatic Stress

Living through trauma can leave deep emotional and physical scars. PTSD and trauma-related stress can affect relationships, work, and your overall sense of safety. Healing is possible with the right support.

Common challenges:

  • Flashbacks or intrusive memories

  • Nightmares or disrupted sleep

  • Hypervigilance or feeling “on edge”

  • Avoidance of reminders of the trauma

  • Emotional numbness or detachment

How therapy helps:
We provide trauma-informed care, using evidence-based approaches such as Written Exposure Therapy (WET), grounding strategies, and mindfulness skills to help you process experiences in a safe and supportive way.

Our approach:
You set the pace. We’ll work together to reduce symptoms, build resilience, and help you move toward a sense of safety and control in your life.

  • Symptoms of PTSD take several forms and are not always immediately noticeable after an event. Symptoms of PTSD can include:

    • Reexperiencing

      • intrusive nightmares, memories, thoughts, or physiological reactions to certain cues

    • Avoidance

      • efforts to avoid internal and external reminders of the traumatic event

    • Alterations in cognition and mood

      • negative beliefs about self and others, negative emotional states

    • Increased arousal and reactivity

      • such as hypervigilance, irritability, sleep difficulties

  • PTSD can be treated using many approaches so don’t feel like you are out of options. Treatments of PTSD can include:

    • Cognitive processing therapy

    • Prolonged exposure therapy

    • Skills training