Has Trauma Left A Permanent Mark On You?
- Does unresolved trauma continue to disrupt your life?
- Have ongoing symptoms—such as anxiety, depression, irritability, emotional numbness, and intrusive thoughts—created a barrier to happiness?
- Are your relationships negatively affected by your early life experiences, leading to communication struggles, trust issues, defensiveness, and conflicts with the people you care about?
The results of trauma can have a far-reaching impact on how you move through the world. As much as you try to minimize or diminish disturbing memories, unresolved trauma can manifest as flashbacks, nightmares, and hypervigilance.
Perhaps you often feel under threat and live in fear that something bad is about to happen. Your fight-flight-freeze response may get stuck in overdrive, leading to poor emotional regulation.
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The Impact Of Trauma Is Often All-Encompassing
In addition to the emotional weight of trauma, its effects may also live in your body. Physically, you may struggle with insomnia, fatigue, headaches, brain fog, or stress-related pain. What’s more, you might experience significant functional challenges due to trauma, anxiety, or emotional distress. You may struggle to focus academically or professionally, finding it challenging to manage daily stressors effectively and stay motivated, which can impact your work performance, productivity, and decision-making.
Maybe you’ve tried therapy in the past, only to find nothing really changed. Although you may have hoped that talking openly about your challenges would lead to healing, perhaps you weren’t truly listened to, and no significant shifts ever took place.
The good news is that Authentic Brain Solutions offers comprehensive, fully integrated trauma therapy, offering hope in cases when traditional methods have not been successful. Not only will you connect with a therapist who understands trauma and is trained in cutting-edge treatment methods, but they will also acknowledge that you are the expert of your experience and honor your story with compassion and understanding.
The Effects Of Trauma Are All-Encompassing
Trauma is a pervasive health disorder that affects both body and mind. Living through distressing experiences, such as childhood abuse, active military combat, accidents, or medical crises, often has a lasting impact. People who experience complex trauma may suffer from a host of mental health conditions that persist for months or years, usually culminating in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms that require counseling and medication.
Additionally, more subtle forms of trauma can also have a lasting impact. Although we’re often less aware of how our early childhood experiences leave a permanent impression on us, situations where we felt unheard, unsupported, or unsafe can cause “Little T” traumas that we carry with us into adulthood.
We Face A Host Of Challenges That Often Exacerbate Our Symptoms
In today’s world, we are frequently confronted with environmental stressors that heighten emotional and physical distress. Whether we’re dealing with high-pressure careers, financial strain, or a constant barrage of social media content, we may become easily overwhelmed and triggered by what would otherwise be manageable problems.
Unfortunately, finding effective trauma recovery therapy isn’t always easy. Getting to the heart of the issue to support lasting change requires expertise and experience with identifying the unique factors each of us has experienced.
If you have worked with a counselor previously but still experience the lingering effects of trauma or PTSD, I’m here to help. As a licensed therapist certified in EMDR and IASIS Microcurrent Neurofeedback, I am uniquely qualified to help you address unresolved trauma once and for all.
Trauma Therapy Can Help You Forge A New Path Forward
Living with trauma can change you in ways you don’t want. Perhaps you’ve become increasingly isolated and unable to engage fully in life. Or maybe you turn to addictive habits as a way to numb yourself from the deeper pain you’re trying to forget. Your relationships may have become strained due to unhealthy patterns that repeatedly emerge, causing you to feel overwhelmed and emotionally stuck.
At Authentic Brain Solutions, we provide therapy to individuals of all ages and from all walks of life—including students, professionals, parents, military members, first responders, and seniors—who seek trauma and PTSD recovery, brain optimization, and emotional resilience. Our blend of compassionate, personalized care matched with cutting-edge, evidence-based approaches, like Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and IASIS Microcurrent Neurofeedback, offers hope—even when traditional talk therapy or medication hasn’t worked in the past.
What To Expect In Trauma Counseling
Before our first session, you will complete a comprehensive questionnaire about your history, symptoms, and concerns. The information gleaned from the trauma screening process helps us best identify areas to explore more deeply in future counseling sessions.
Our initial intake session is designed to explore your goals, values, and vision of your ideal outcome for therapy. A key component of trauma therapy will be working with a counselor who is wholly focused on what you have to say and listens to understand rather than to simply respond. Your treatment plan will be customized to meet your unique needs and goals, ensuring a personalized approach that promotes overall well-being.
Throughout counseling, your therapist will check in regularly, using both standardized assessment tools and informal conversations about your concerns, progress, and experiences. As therapy progresses, we will review progress, discuss insights, and make any adjustments necessary to support lasting healing from trauma and PTSD.
IASIS Microcurrent Neurofeedback And EMDR Therapy For Trauma
Our treatment plans are built on a client-centered approach that integrates a variety of evidence-based interventions. Core methods in therapy include the EMDR, IASIS Microcurrent Neurofeedback, mindfulness practices, grounding techniques, nervous system regulation, and solution-focused interventions.
Psychoeducation will help you better understand how trauma affects the brain and body. Additionally, we may incorporate advanced techniques that explore recurring triggers to achieve both short-term relief and sustained improvements in functioning.
If you’ve spent your life wondering if you’ll ever find relief, please know there is hope. Many clients have tried other counseling methods or medications for trauma without success.
However, by utilizing the unique, neuroscience-based approach we offer, they often find relief and begin living in alignment with their goals and values. Clients also report that the modern, evidence-based options available here are generally quicker, gentler, and more effective than approaches they have tried in the past.
But You May Wonder Whether Trauma Therapy Is Right For You…
Won’t talking about my trauma in therapy make me feel worse?
One unique benefit of EMDR and IASIS Microcurrent Neurofeedback is that you have the option not to discuss the details of your trauma. The focus can instead be on the desired solution and improving current functioning rather than revisiting painful memories. In trauma treatment, we can take a “blind-to-the-therapist” approach, where the client works toward goals while the counselor tracks progress without requiring in-depth discussion of past events.
Will I become reliant on trauma treatment to feel better?
At Authentic Brain Solutions, our focus is on helping clients graduate from trauma therapy rather than remain in ongoing treatment. Most clients complete the active phase of their plan within 3 to 6 months. Some choose monthly check-in sessions to maintain progress, while others finish treatment and achieve sustained, lasting improvement without the need for check-ins.
Does trauma treatment also include medication?
Taking medication for mental health is a personal choice. Some clients use a “both/and” approach—combining medication with therapy—and then opting to gradually reduce and eventually eliminate medication once progress is sustained. Others prefer to avoid medication entirely and report that our techniques effectively support that goal. Whatever you choose, we will support your decision and help you tailor treatment appropriately.
With Evidence-Based Therapy, Trauma Is Treatable
Solutions are available that can lead to lasting transformation. If you would like to learn more about trauma therapy, please call or text 832-819-1708 or visit our contact page.
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