Trauma Therapy in Tribeca, NYC
Are you Struggling with the Effects of Trauma?
Trauma and its symptoms can show up in different ways. You may be experiencing flashbacks of a traumatic event that happened to you yesterday, or many years ago. You might be having flashbacks that are images, sounds, or smells.
Or perhaps your trauma is more interpersonal and impacting your relationships with your loved ones, friends, or colleagues. You may have moments when you feel disconnected from people or your surroundings. These are all issues that can be dealt with in trauma therapy.
Trauma Doesn’t Discriminate
Regardless of your age, gender, occupation, marital status, religion, or ethnicity, you can be susceptible to trauma’s effects. Trauma has the potential to impact so many parts of your life beginning with how you view yourself, how you feel about and relate to others, and the choices you are making, or aren't making, in your life.
You may feel embarrassed about how you're acting or feel ashamed of your feelings and thoughts. While those are normal reactions, it's not your fault that you are feeling the way you do. Traumatic experiences can elicit powerful emotions in people that they need help processing with a trauma counselor.
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Trauma Often Falls Under the Following Two Categories
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
PTSD can develop from something you’ve personally experienced or something you’ve witnessed, such as a car accident, physical attack, war, or a natural disaster.
When triggered, memories, sounds, and/or images of specific moments can come flooding back years after the initial event has passed. It can seem like you’re experiencing the event all over again. Panic attacks are common, as is diffuse anxiety.
Complex Trauma
Complex trauma can occur due to years of abuse, neglect, and/or hurtful interactions with attachment figures such as parents/caregivers/siblings.
Effects can vary, but may include: difficulty trusting others, negative feelings about oneself, struggles with forming close relationships, remaining stuck in the past, difficulty planning for the future, intense anger, anxiety, and depression. And because each person perceives events differently, no two people experience trauma in the same way.
How Trauma Therapy in New York Can Help You
Trauma is not a new phenomenon. What is new is that we have a better understanding of the myriad events in someone’s life that can elicit trauma, and new approaches to help people move past it.
For example, there’s no reason for anyone to have to deal with disturbing images of a prior event. Anxiety, fear, and depression resulting from childhood or adult abuse, can be processed. A past accident that may be keeping someone from enjoying an activity once loved, can be worked through.
Some of My Methods for Working with Trauma
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing is a gentle approach which views trauma as being held in the body. By helping you recognize where and how your body is hanging onto your trauma, I can then guide you through the process of allowing your body to release it.
When that happens, you will likely begin to experience less anxiety, less fear, less anger, less shame, and less depression. New realizations about your history, as well as your current life are also possible with somatic therapy.
Ericksonian Hypnotherapy in Trauma Counseling
Hypnotherapy utilizes your powerful unconscious mind to bring about change. By tapping into this often-overlooked part of your mind using Ericksonian hypnosis techniques, I can help you work through many different issues.
Examples include empowering you, ridding you of unwanted habits, managing pain and anxiety, resolving trauma, and helping you make choices more aligned with who you really are. Hypnosis counseling is a gateway to those parts of yourself that hold the wisdom and courage to effectuate meaningful change.
Parts Work in Trauma Counseling
We all have multiple parts, or aspects, to ourselves. Sometimes, due to past trauma, one or more of these parts might be interfering with your life. For example, there might be a part of you that is often so self-critical that you find it difficult to feel good about anything you do.
Parts work can help you gain clarity into why a specific part of you seems to be driving your life and keeping you from moving forward. How you feel about yourself, how you’re interacting with others, and the decisions you are or are not making, can all be examined through the lens of your specific parts.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Trauma Counseling
Cognitive-Behavioral therapy is commonly referred to as CBT. It focuses on the ways you’re thinking about your life and the world around you which can be getting in the way of you living your best life possible.
The behavioral piece focuses on helping you devise the most effective strategies that will help you to feel better about yourself and your relationships, so that you can achieve your goals – whether those be large, or small.
Psychodynamic Therapy in Trauma Counseling
Psychodynamic psychotherapy looks at your past to understand what's going on in your present-day life. The goal is to help you achieve a better future.
The relationships and experiences you've had with your parents (or other caretakers), siblings, romantic partners, friends, peers, and in society in general, have shaped you in ways you may not be aware of and may have contributed to the trauma symptoms you're currently experiencing.
Trauma-focused psychodynamic therapy can help you work through the trauma.
How I Can Help You Deal with your Trauma in Counseling
Fortunately, you are not destined to forever suffer the effects of trauma. You don't have to remain stuck with thoughts, behaviors, and relationships that no longer serve you. Depression and anxiety need no longer define who you are nor dictate how you live your life.
As a trauma-informed therapist in New York, I will utilize the above approaches (and others) to help release you from trauma’s often powerful grip so that you can transition from a difficult past, into a more hopeful future.
Even after reading all this, you may find you still have some questions about pursuing trauma counseling in New York. Below are a few common ones.
Whether to Pursue Trauma Treatment in New York
Even after reading all this, you may find you still have some questions about pursuing trauma counseling in New York. Below are a few common ones.
Will I have to talk about every detail of my trauma?
Absolutely not. We will work on just one piece of the trauma at a time. You set the pace, and I will follow.
What if I get overwhelmed during the session?
If that happens, I have various strategies that will address any feelings that may arise. Making sure you feel safe and in control is my priority.
Is trauma therapy only helpful for big traumatic events?
Counseling can help people who have experienced all kinds of trauma. What one person considers a small trauma another might view as a major traumatic event. Therefore, trauma therapists don't categorize trauma by size.
Are you Ready to Heal from Trauma?
I’d be happy to answer any questions you might have, and you can reach me via email or phone.
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