Healing from Trauma

by | Jun 1, 2013 | Trauma

Help is available to reduce the symptoms of trauma, improve nervous system and emotional regulation, and return to pleasurable activities and living life rather than managing symptoms. Working with a trauma trained therapist using evidence-based CBT, somatic or other...

Self-Regulation and Trauma

by | Jun 1, 2013 | Trauma

Trauma changes the brain in specific ways by increasing limbic system (emotional) activation and decreasing pre-frontal cortex functioning. It compromises capacity to regulate autonomic arousal and handle everyday stress. Trauma affects cognitive, affective, somatic,...

What is Trauma?

by | Jun 1, 2013 | Trauma

Trauma is a psychobiological reaction to a traumatic event that can include threat of safety including war, illness, car accidents, assault, kidnapping, and/or sexual/physical abuse.  Complex trauma results from exposure to prolonged social and/or interpersonal trauma...