Trauma Counseling in Arizona
Online counseling for adults in Arizona
Is your past keeping you from living your best life?
Maybe you have frequent flashbacks or unwanted thoughts from the past. Or perhaps you suffer from poor sleep and nightmares. You might struggle to control your emotions. Maybe you feel on edge, nervous, or unsafe during typical, everyday situations.
Whatever it is that you’re experiencing, you’re beginning to notice the impact that trauma can have in every aspect of your life:
Difficulty trusting others
Difficulty in relationships
Negative beliefs about yourself
Difficulty keeping a job or completing schoolwork
Trauma counseling can help.
It may feel impossible now, but you can build a life worth living. You can take control of your emotions. You can learn to trust and create safe and healthy relationships. And I can help you get there.
During trauma counseling, we will:
Learn skills and techniques that you can apply right now to begin tolerating intense distress
Identify triggers and unhealthy coping skills
Engage in “re-processing” of traumatic events, with the goal of changing the way our brain perceives and responds to past trauma
I’ll help through this process, tailoring each step to your unique needs and circumstances.
My approach to trauma has two main steps: stabilization and re-processing.
In stabilization we focus on developing skills and techniques that you can use right now to begin tolerating distress and regulating your emotions. We will focus on healthy and effective responses to flashbacks, unwanted thoughts and emotions, relationship distress, and other stressors you experience.
During reprocessing we use elements of exposure therapy, during which we recall traumatic and unpleasant memories, to change the way our brain perceives past experiences. This allows us to experience the present moment and build a life we enjoy.
Flashbacks and unwanted distressing thoughts don’t have to be your story.
Let’s Write A New Story