Blog: Therapy for Trauma and Abuse

Trauma can feel like a dark shadow that lingers, making an appearance at the most inopportune moments in life. Contrary to popular belief, trauma isn't limited to those who have experienced wars or survived severe accidents. It can emerge from moments that others may consider insignificant, but were deeply distressing to you personally. Some trauma involves real or ...

We learn nearly everything we know through experiences. That might be the experience of reading about something, doing a certain activity, or being immersed in a situation. These can be positive experiences, like learning how to cook growing up with your mother, chopping vegetables in the kitchen together, or negative experiences such as “learning love” through the relationship ...

When you’ve lived through a painful and paralyzing experience such as trauma, it’s easy and common to feel like a victim. The APA defines “Trauma as an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape, or natural disaster." While each person’s experience is different, there is often a myriad of emotional, physiological, spiritual, physical, and even ...

A painful past has a gravity all its own, and it can pull us down if we’re not careful. It sometimes seems old memories and old patterns