Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist 702.433.4411Serving Anthem, Seven Hills, Southern Highlands, Silverado Ranch, Green Valley, Henderson, and Las Vegas.
Trauma Recovery
Have you experienced a recent trauma that is affecting your ability to function normally, interfering with your sleep, your work, perhaps your relationships? Maybe you witnessed a traumatic incident or experienced one yourself. Perhaps a past trauma continues to haunt you and you are struggling to find healing within yourself. You may even be angry to have this ongoing interference in your life but not know how to reclaim control of your own well being.
Trauma can be difficult to define because reactions to events are unique to each person who experiences them--what is traumatic to one individual may not be to another and vice versa. Reactions may include intrusive recurring thoughts of the event or events, poor quality sleep affected by disturbing dreams or nightmares, and physically reacting to new events as if re-experiencing the trauma.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been proven to help cope with the effects that we humans experience as a result of trauma. Another form of treatment for trauma recovery is called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR is a method of psychotherapy that has been extensively researched and proven effective for the treatment of trauma. For more information, go to www.emdria.org .
There is encouraging news about facing the effects of your trauma—people get better. Those who are committed to their own recovery can and do go on to live normal and productive lives, unencumbered by the past, transforming baggage into character. I have worked with trauma recovery for well over a decade and can testify to the positive outcomes of hundreds of individuals who have “graduated” from therapy. I’m ready to start when you are!
