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Trauma Therapy in Parker and Across CO

You deserve a space to heal and reclaim your life.

Struggling with disconnection from your emotions or unwanted memories and flashbacks can feel overwhelming. This can result in you having intense bouts of anxiety, anger, or sadness. You may blame yourself for a traumatic event that happened, leading to a diminished sense of self-worth or pervasive feelings of guilt.

Trauma not only occurs in response to singular distressing events, but also occurs in response to continual stressors that leave you feeling helpless. These continual stressors are often overlooked because you might rationalize these as “common” and therefore shame yourself for feeling overwhelmed. Or you might not recognize how disturbed you were by the situation, but it results in increased distress and heightened emotional responses in your everyday life.

If you’ve experienced these stressful or disturbing events, you may have unprocessed trauma:

  • Difficult birth or unexpected C-section

  • Unwanted sexual experience

  • Narcissistic or abusive partner

  • Difficult pregnancy or distressing diagnosis for baby at pregnancy

  • Lack of support system when becoming a mother

  • Avoidant family growing up

  • Difficulty breastfeeding

  • Pressure to be perfect or perform at a very high level in athletics

  • Alcoholic parent or other substance abuse in family

  • Emotional or physical neglect

Experiencing trauma can impact every aspect of your life. Everyday occurrences may bring back painful memories and cause anxiety or anger which impacts your relationship with your partner or children. Past trauma can lead to low self-worth resulting in imposter syndrome or feeling like you’re “not good enough” or “not worthy”. These feelings may be preventing you from living a meaningful life and pursuing your dreams and ambitions.

Helping You Live Your Full Life.

Trauma lives deep within our nervous systems evoking strong physical and emotional reactions. Experiencing an elevated heart rate, quickened breathing, high blood pressure, or anxiousness all wear you down and siphon your energy from the ones and things you love. Life doesn’t have to feel this way. Life can be free and full of meaning. You can be confident that triggers and those charged traumatic memories will not overwhelm you.

Together we will work through your trauma with more than just coping skills. I use EMDR to help you identify and recognize the traumatic experiences in your life and then reprocess those painful memories using evidence based techniques. EMDR relies on neuroscience to help people heal from all sorts of trauma including PTSD, emotional and physical neglect, birth trauma, and unwanted sexual experiences. 

Therapy for trauma can help you:

  • Withstand triggers

  • Develop self-worth and self-esteem

  • Regain trust in others

  • Reduce the intensity of trauma-induced emotions

  • Disconfirm problematic beliefs

  • Overcome fears

  • Alleviate flashbacks or nightmares

  • Boost day-to-day functioning

  • Overcome unhealthy or harmful behaviors caused by traumatic stress

  • Improve emotional well-being

Change is possible.

Change is possible.

FAQs

  • Trauma isn’t defined by the event itself but by how it impacts you emotionally, physically, and mentally.

  • Therapy looks different for everyone! It is important for you to feel comfortable and safe with your therapist to begin to explore your experiences. Modalities like EMDR and parts work is often a part of therapy for trauma.

    More about EMDR.

  • Everybody’s journey for therapy looks different! Throughout our work together we will continuously check in with each other and discuss how therapy is feeling for you and if it feels helpful. You are always in charge.