Trauma & PTSD

Trauma doesn't always look like what you'd expect.

Sometimes it looks like a single moment that won't stop replaying — the call you got,

the room you walked into, the day everything changed. Sometimes it looks like a

childhood you've already "dealt with" but that keeps reaching forward into your adult

relationships. Sometimes it looks like nothing at all to anyone outside your head. You

function. You succeed. You also can't sleep without checking the locks twice and your

body still flinches at things you can't quite name.

Clients who come to me for trauma are usually one of these:

• You experienced a discrete traumatic event — an accident, an assault, a medical
• event, a sudden loss — and you've been different since.
• You grew up in something — emotional neglect, a chaotic household, a parent who
• couldn't see you — and the patterns you developed to survive it are now
• interfering with the life you're trying to build.
• You've worked in a job where exposure to trauma is part of the work, and the
• cumulative weight has caught up with you.
• You don't know if it counts as trauma, but something happened and you haven't
• been the same.

 All of these count. We'll figure out what we're working with together.