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Trauma Therapy 

Are your relationships struggling, including with yourself?

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Most of us will experience some form of trauma within our lifetime. We think about things like a car accident, a natural disaster, or an assault. However, some trauma is different than a singular tragic event. It's even different than several tragic events. Developmental trauma is the result of prolonged experiences of overwhelming stress during pivotal developmental stages in a person's life. Developmental trauma is childhood trauma. The results infiltrate seemingly every part of life - especially our relationships. With others, and our own selves.

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But what does it look like?

When you are living with the impacts of developmental trauma, relationships can be hard, or seemingly nonexistent. You might feel like you're constantly on an emotional rollercoaster that you don't know how to manage. Maybe you feel terribly about yourself, despite what anyone has to say. Your body might feel like a prison - either riddled with overwhelming sensations or totally numb. You might zone out a lot, leaving you feeling disconnected from the world around you at times.

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​More and more it is becoming widely known the impacts of childhood trauma and prolonged childhood adversity greatly impact a person's life in adulthood. Thanks to books like The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk, What Happened to You? by Bruce Perry, and several others, more people are starting to be able to connect the dots about why they move through the world in the ways that they do and consequently, better access the relief that they've been after.​​​

How is Developmental Trauma different from PTSD or CPTSD?

Developmental trauma is not a single event. It isn't as cut and dry as, say, someone's experience with a car accident leading them to experience great difficulty with driving. Developmental trauma is about brain wiring from an early developmental age - which also makes it different than Complex PTSD (CPTSD.) Developmental trauma is the combination of childhood trauma or overwhelming stress that is repetitive and ongoing across the developmental years, whereas CPTSD technically stems from experiences that occurred in adulthood. 

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Why Haven't I heard of this Before?

Because developmental trauma impacts such a wide range of parts of a person's life in a multitude of ways, it often goes misdiagnosed or unrecognized by those without specialized training in the impacts of childhood trauma. Often, it gets labeled as anxiety, depression, and often clients will even be diagnosed with mood or personality disorders.

 

These diagnoses aren't always necessarily incorrect, they just don't tell the whole story.  

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​In situations where developmental trauma is at play, your uncontrollable panic attacks might be a result of your body never having learned how to safely relax. Your intense mood swings may be a result of it never having been modeled for you how to healthily navigate your emotions - desirable and undesirable - and so you feel totally out of control. Your depressive tendencies - maybe fatigue, brain fog, "zoning out," or numbness - are actually your brain and body's way of protecting you during overwhelming situations because they don't yet know a safer way. Those ADHD symptoms that have you unable to focus on any one task or get seemingly anything done? Perhaps that's how your brain had to take care of itself when you were small - by distracting itself from the present moment and it just got too good at that.

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Developmental trauma - ongoing childhood wounding - is the root of many "disorders." Diagnoses are only the description of a collection of symptoms. 

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Now what?

If you are someone who has lived a life experiencing childhood trauma, working with a therapist who has specialized training in developmental trauma is crucial. Specific tools, a specific lens, is necessary in order to address the roots of your suffering and help you to bring yourself a sense of internal peace.

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Check out our blog posts on Developmental Trauma to learn more

Fees: Session (50 minutes) $250 | Initial Intake (55-60 minutes) $285

 

Insurances Accepted: I’m not in-network with insurance companies, but can provide an invoice for possible out-of-network provider reimbursement through your insurance company.

 

Common Methods Used: Brainspotting (Phase 1 & 2), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Expressive Arts Therapy, Experiential Therapy, Inner-wisdom tools such as Tarot, HeartMath, Psychodrama, Internal Family Systems and, my personality

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