TRAUMA THERAPY IN OVIEDO, FLORIDA AND VIRTUALLY

Go from surviving to thriving.

 

Are you constantly in survival mode?

Your past feels inescapable…

You are both trying to move on so you can heal

and hold on so that history does not repeat itself.

You feel both empty inside and like you are carrying a heavy burden.

The world seems like a dangerous place even when it’s not, and your mind and body are constantly in fight or flight mode.

You wish you could break free of self-doubt, feeling out of control, and like you are on the edge of a breakdown.

You are often on guard, watching for signs of danger in your environment, others, and yourself.

You don’t fully understand why the normal conversation you had with your loved one led you to spiral into a dark place filled with overwhelming thoughts, anxiety, sadness, and eventually feeling completely numb.

In your relationships, you…

  • Are walking on eggshells

  • Don’t trust yourself or others

  • Fear being left alone or you push people away before they can leave

  • Notice that “small things” trigger intense emotions that are hard to manage

  • Feel that you’ll never be happy and live with constant uneasiness and emptiness

Simply put, life feels like a battleground and you are tired of your mind resembling a war zone.

Life can feel different than the way it does today.

Find the freedom to live a life that’s not defined by your past.

The truth is… it is exhausting to live this way. You can start feeling confident, in control, and calm in your daily life. You can identify true red or green flags in relationships while feeling capable of setting boundaries or leaving an unhealthy relationship without the crippling self-doubt. Learn to prioritize yourself and your well-being which can begin to build up your self-worth to the point where you begin to trust your own voice. It’s possible to feel like yourself instead of feeling stuck in what you had to become to survive.

What we’ll work on:

  • Understand why your struggles and big emotions make sense in the context of your life experiences while learning to reconnect with your body, mind, and emotions safely.

  • Notice how your past experiences have impacted the way you view yourself, others, and the world.

  • Understand these ingrained beliefs and pave the way to gaining both insight into and compassion for the ways you behaved in order to survive.

    While dissociating or numbing, overthinking, people-pleasing, or anger could have been a few of the things you had to develop to protect yourself, therapy with me will help you find new ways of feeling and staying safe that feel more helpful and less taxing. With new insight, knowledge, skills, and coping tools, you can face your life with confidence and a renewed sense of who you really are.

Trauma therapy can help you:

  • Reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and overwhelm

  • Start feeling in control of your emotions, thoughts, and reactions

  • Cultivate and enjoy relationships without the burden of self-doubt, trust issues, and hyper-vigilance

  • Explore what you truly want, value, and need in yourself and in your relationships

  • Prioritize making time for your healing so you can feel better in your daily life

  • Uncover your authentic self and voice with confidence

  • Understand how to start trusting yourself

You don’t have to keep struggling to survive.

EMDR

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR) can be a powerful tool for healing and processing challenging experiences and shifting beliefs you have about yourself.

EMDR is a way to process challenging experiences and memories without having to go into detail of your trauma with your therapist. The goal of EMDR is to help these events feel less and less threatening and overwhelming while shifting the way these experiences have impacted the way you view yourself, others, and the world.

IFS

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an approach that views people as a sum of “parts” of us that are often at odds with each other. There is a part of you that reacts with anger when you feel disrespected, and another part that might feel sadness beneath that anger, and yet a third part of you that disconnects you from strong feelings so that you are not overwhelmed.

 

IFS helps you understand the role of these different parts of you with compassion, curiosity, and understanding, even the sides of you that feel scary or confusing. A common phrase in this approach is “all parts or welcome.” Clients often share a newfound sense of empathy and understanding for their reactions, emotions, defense mechanisms and ultimately themselves through IFS therapy.

FAQS

What others have wondered about trauma therapy.

 

  • Everyone’s healing journey looks different, and there is no benefit to talking about every single traumatic experience in therapy. The type of therapy approaches (EMDR, IFS) I use do not require you to go into detail into those difficult memories. You can start healing by focusing on how you experience yourself, others, and the world today without having to relive them.

  • Depending on your goals, past experience in therapy, and where you are on your healing journey, the time you spend in therapy will be different for every client. On average, the clients who seek me out for trauma therapy are in therapy for 12-18 months.

  • We meet as often as you would like but I often recommend trauma therapy is done weekly or biweekly at the beginning of treatment to get the most out of our time together.

More questions? Check out my FAQs page.

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