Counseling for Trauma

Traumatic experiences can initiate strong emotions and physical reactions that can persist long after the event.  While many people can recover from trauma over time with the love and support of family and friends and bounce back with resiliency, others may discover the effects of lasting trauma, which can cause a person to live with deep emotional pain, fear, confusion, or posttraumatic stress far after the event has passed.

In these circumstances, the support, guidance, and assistance of a therapist are fundamental to healing from trauma.  I provide culturally sensitive, trauma informed care to all clients I work with.  Clients often seek me out for support with:

• Intergenerational trauma – the impact of a traumatic experience, not only on one generation, but on their descendants. With intergenerational trauma, a parent/caregiver’s habitual responses to stressors are passed onto their child which can impact the child’s health and wellness. This can result in experiences such as a strained familial relationship, loss of identity, perfectionism, acculturative stress or suppressing guilt or shame.
• Race based trauma – A person who has experienced mental and emotional injury caused by racial bias, ethnic discrimination, hate crimes and racism.
• Childhood trauma – Some common causes of childhood trauma are bullying, death of a loved one, separation from a parent or caregiver, emotional abuse or neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or violence in the home, at school or in the community.

I welcome you to reach out to me for a free consultation if you need support to heal from trauma.