Trauma
Therapy for Trauma (Including Complex Trauma)
Trauma overwhelms one’s ability to cope, making it difficult to manage emotions and cope in healthy ways. Longer term reactions to trauma can include intense emotions, flashbacks, strained relationships, and uncomfortable and painful somatic symptoms.
Neurobiology of Trauma teaches us that there are many ways trauma can impact our brains and body. You can have visual, auditory, and emotional flashbacks, causing you to feel as if you are constantly reliving the trauma. During these experiences, the part of your brain that can understand the trauma and choose how you want to handle a situation, goes offline. The typical response is to compartmentalize and stuff it back into a jammed filing cabinet and slam the door. But this maintains the trauma symptoms and with the lightest touch, the jammed cabinet easily swings open.
Trauma-informed therapies such as Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy, Somatic Therapies, Mindfulness Approaches, and Trauma-Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy are essential to help your brain integrate from past trauma. After trauma treatment, my clients often mention that they feel lighter, feel more moments of joy, and are amazed by how they can make choices on how they want to respond to the trauma triggers or feel free from the trauma completely.
My specialties also include Complex PTSD, which is chronic, relational trauma, often starting in childhood. Complex Trauma interferes with a child’s ability to form a secure attachment bond. The impact of Complex Trauma includes attachment, emotional flashbacks, emotional dysregulation, impulsivity or reckless behavior, somatic concerns, dissociation, executive functioning problems, low self-esteem, and a fragmented sense of self.
Starting a Complex PTSD group in the Summer/Fall of 2024
PRICING | THERAPY WITH DR. SEGUIN, Licensed Psychologist
30-minute therapy session: $125 | 50-minute therapy session: $200 | Initial, Intake Session: $245
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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:
WAKING THE TIGER: Healing Trauma BY PETER LEVINE
THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE BY BESSEL VAN DER KOLK
“The journey to move from surviving from trauma to thriving in life requires much bravery and is well worth the risk.”
— Dr. Seguin