You know you are a good, strong, and loving person, but you also fear that at any moment, you can lose control if triggered by someone or something.
A certain sound that startles you. A look someone gives you. A person, place, or media story that brings back a memory and puts you on edge. And once triggered, you feel that your thoughts and reactions are off to the races. As if your mind and body have been hijacked and you're no longer in control. You wish so much to push the stop button, but you just can't do it in the moment.
Do your reactions from PTSD make you want to avoid experiences of the past, but also tired of the past continuing to show up? Defining your relationships. Letting it dictate what you can and can’t do. Or finding yourself alone because it's too scary to trust anyone. Are you feeling exhausted and tired of missing out in your life?
It's possible to put the past where it belongs.
I help people who are experiencing the intense ups and downs of PTSD. PTSD responses of fear, panic, anger, to numbness, freeze, shutdown, or disconnect. I help you understand how trauma impacts your mind and nervous system, help you build coping strategies right away so you can begin regaining confidence and control, and help bring resolution to past or recent experiences that activate PTSD responses. I combine bottom-up therapeutic approaches that, together, bring deep healing and an internal, whole mind-body shift.
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If your wounds aren’t given attention, they will continue to scream for attention. But once healed, they remain quiet in the background without the need to creep up again. It’s like seeing a scar on your skin from an old injury. You remember what happened, but it no longer stings when you touch it. Instead,