Trauma Therapy

If you have been through some type of traumatic experience, your head can feel very loud. It may feel impossible to shut off your thoughts. You may run through various scenarios many times over in attempts to anticipate every possible permutation. This can leave you exhausted, frustrated, and often times frozen. The need to justify…

If our emotional needs go unmet in childhood, we often develop a false self as protection. We may have learned to be attentive to the needs of our parents or siblings and disavowed our own needs. Or, we may have centered our whole identity on our achievement. Survivors of trauma often make themselves smaller and…