Trauma doesn't have to dictate who you are and what the rest of your life will look like.
At best, trauma and its impact are obstacles that threaten to slow us down; at worse, they are debilitating hurdles that derail us altogether.
Depression, exhausting anxiety, crippling low self-esteem and low confidence, the pain of feeling damaged and tarnished by what you've gone through and how you learned to cope that is still haunting you to this day...maybe these things have been 'just the way life is' for you for so long that it's all you know.
However—with care uniquely designed for you and support effective in helping you implement what you gain in treatment, you can create your new normal, your healthier place.
Family & Child Trauma in the United States
You don't feel well. You don't feel healthy.
You wonder if you're forever damaged and inherently broken.
Does the residue of trauma ever go away?
You feel unequipped to be yourself, be in relationships, and thrive in the world like others do, because your foundation was compromised.
But you do not have to accept that you will never be as happy or whole again.
Trauma doesn't have to dictate who you are and what the rest of your life will look like.
You see the posts and information out there about triggers, re-parenting yourself, ways to cope, and etc. You've even been checking it out and added it to the list of things you've tried to 'fix' yourself.
But, despite your best efforts, it's harder than it looks. You realize you need support but wonder if anything will really be able to help you past this.
Well...
Welcome to Healthier Place
Individual, behavioral, and relational challenges brought on by traumatic events, personal difficulties, life changes/transitions, loss, and stress can be hard for us all.
Those challenges can be birthed, even if in part, by trauma within or arising from the family or relational environment we grow up in—blood relatives or not, physically present or not.
Trauma itself is wide in spectrum of what it can include (from verbal abuse to sexual assault/rape, to car accidents, abandonment, job loss, parentification, and unfortunately the list goes on).
It is typically devastating in impact and closely associated with clinically diagnosed mental illness or debilitating mental health struggles.
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Here are some areas of concern we help our patients learn to confront and master around trauma recovery:
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-Understanding trauma and the impact of trauma on the self, presence and quality of interpersonal relationships, and professional goals
-Decreasing and replacing misaligned, destructive, or impairing coping, soothing, and regulation strategies with strategies that combine compassion with effectiveness so that you can get back to you, your choice, and your life quickly without a storm brewing in the background
-Learning how to hold healthy accountability vs shame and the distortion of trauma
-Replacing passive or aggressive communication with informed, effective, assertive communication strategies (including boundary setting and standard enforcement)
-Cultivating healthy, grounded self esteem, self worth, and confidence
-Restoring an informed, personalized, and healthy understanding of trust and safety after trauma; for the self and with others
-Understanding trauma responses and triggering and connecting the dots to our “unique tendency”: our personal history, background, and personality that impacts how we experience both mental health distress and treatment/interventions
-Replacing disassociation, repression, and fragmentation of the self and awareness with healthy, balanced integration, so that we feel whole and in healthy control vs impulsively triggered and out of control of our own responses and behaviors
-Cultivating personal forgiveness and the acceptance and understanding of your story thus far as we make space for you to meet you without the weight of the impact of trauma
-Understanding how to maintain and retain your trauma recovery and know how to identify and integrate the shifts in needs, desires, and vision that will undoubtedly occur across the rest of the life span