Trauma can take many forms and is perhaps best described as an experience that overwhelms one’s coping skills and leaves a person feeling like life can never be as it was before.

I approach trauma treatment with a recognition that the experiences and events which wounds and overwhelm are different for different people. Sometimes, one’s coping skills are a perfect match for the challenges of life, and sometimes they are not. This does not mean that an individual suffering from trauma is to blame or should have done a better job developing their coping skills. Rather, it simply means that there is no one size fits all definition of trauma. Essentially, “trauma” probably shouldn’t be defined by what happened but by how a person experienced what happened.

Whatever the source of the trauma, healing is possible, and for individuals suffering with trauma alongside another mental health condition, trauma treatment may open the door to effective treatment for other issues.

To help clients with trauma move from a state of reliving to remembering, I offer EMDR, a structured therapy that supports client’s own capacity for healing by desensitizing and reprocessing traumatic memories and experiences. Read more about EMDR here.