Trauma Counseling for Adults in Georgia

 

Trauma can originate from a broad range of situations, ranging from serious injury, sexual violence and life threatening events to chronic abuse and neglect. Trauma can be caused by a one-time event or an ongoing situation. It’s important to know that trauma can include any experience that causes emotional or psychological harm. When someone experiences trauma, their body stores the memory of the experience in the form of physical and psychosomatic symptoms. These can be triggered by a variety of stimulations including thoughts, sounds, smells, and visual cues.

Research shows that trauma survivors suffer more illnesses. It is important that we work together to calm the nervous system down from the survival state into a state of safety. Therapy for trauma is important to help stop the replay of the event/ events and learn how to stay in the present moment. Feeling safe is the key to healing. No matter what the trauma was counseling gives us the opportunity to address the mind and the body. Your whole being experienced this trauma, therefore your therapy needs to have a whole being approach.

Counseling can help you address the traumatic event and process your feelings and emotions. It can give you the opportunity to face your fears in a safe space and learn coping skills necessary to help you function on a day-to-day basis. We can all heal and move forward with the appropriate tools and support.

How can therapy help with Trauma?

  • Therapy can help validate your experiences and offer the understanding and acceptance you need to start healing.

  • Help reduce the fear and avoidance caused by trauma.

  • Learn to calm the nervous system and feel safe.

  • Understand how the mind and body work together.

Ask yourself, how do you want to feel each day? If fear and the past is running your life and you are ready for a change, I am here to help. I help adult individual make lasting changes and bringing restorative balance back into their lives.

Call me at 678.696.0463 for a free 15-minute phone consultation