therapy for trauma

You may know you’re suffering from trauma, or you may not be so clear about it. Your memories might be hazy, or you have no memory at all about an event or period of your life. For some of us, our bodies are so used to being in overdrive or shutdown that we don’t recognise this as a sign that we’re overwhelmed and experiencing the effects of trauma. Some of us are so expert at downplaying the impact of distress in our lives and carrying on as usual that we don’t know something’s wrong until it shows up as bodily symptoms.

Whatever your experience of having trauma, the adaptations you have made helped you survive at a time of emergency. Those same adaptations may now be inhibiting you from living your fullest life.

That’s where therapy can help. Healing from the effects of trauma is about creating safety for ourselves in the now. It’s about gaining the resilience we need to tolerate discomfort inside us, and also learning to tolerate what is nourishing for us too, when we haven’t built that muscle till now. Trauma is relational: we carry trauma not because of what happened to us, but because we didn’t have the type of safe relationship we needed at the time to recalibrate our expectations and our sense of self. It is through relationship that we heal from such wounds – the therapeutic relationship I provide, and the safe relationship I can help you to build with yourself.