Trauma Therapy
Something terrible happened to you.
Maybe it happened last week. Maybe it happened last month or even years ago. It doesn’t matter.
The day it happened is undeniably etched in your mind, and you can’t get it out. You remember. You see it, hear it, feel, smell, touch it every single time. And you’re so afraid…and angry. Or maybe you pushed it all away. You can’t feel. You can’t remember.
People don’t understand.
Your friends and family may have been more understanding when it first happened, but now they just want to know why you just can’t get over it. Why can’t you go back to who you used to be? (Sometimes you wonder what’s wrong with you, too.)
Nothing is wrong with you.
Your behaviors and emotions are only calling awareness to what needs your attention and healing. Yes, something bad happened. It did, and it hurt you terribly.
But you are not there now. You are not the same person. You are not helpless! There is always another way. Our work together can show you that you can be safe now.
You can stop living in the cage of “what happened” and move forward into “what I choose.”
Trauma is also what did not happen, that should have happened.
Unconditional love, compassion, support, attention, affection, time, adoration, guidance…there are so many things all children deserve simply by existing. And yet, so many of us did not get the care and connection that we needed. That leaves its own mark on how we see ourselves, the outer world, and our place in this outer world.
It can leave us feeling like we will never be good enough, that we have to be perfect. We constantly strive to be better; we cannot rest. We are here only in service of others; our own needs get pushed down and we are hurt when others don’t reciprocate. We can seek to control everything, even when we know that we have no control over others.
Trauma is not only the things that leave a physical mark, or something horrific like war or rape. Trauma can be a lifetime of not being seen or heard, being dismissed, being made to feel small or insignificant. It can be not feeling like anyone understands who you are, not feeling like anyone knows you. It can be neglect or abandonment, rejection. Trauma is all of these things and more.
Don’t wait. Call me today at (347) 352-1450 to schedule a free 20-minute consultation.
In the darkest of times, hope rises like the morning sun.
Not because the darkness has broken, but to break the darkness.
Not because times have changed, but to change the times.
The human heart instinctively, insistently, incessantly
seeks the light of hope even when all else is lost in the darkness.
That is how humanity survives inhumanity.