Our therapists are not here to sit around and judge your experiences, pathologize your trauma, or blame your parents for what you bring to the counseling space; we want to work alongside you in this process in a way that feels productive and worth your time. Therapy is tailored to your goals and experiences, drawing in individualized stress management tools and techniques that will allow you to feel better. 

Our practice draws from Three Guiding Questions to help clients identify core traumas: 

01 What’s Currently Happening And Why? How do you feel? (Identify the ick.)

02 Where Do You Want To Go? What does healing look like? (Explore the ick and, most importantly, imagine what life will look like without it.)

03 What To Do About It? What mechanisms are needed to reprocess your trauma? (Conquer the ick.)

The main objective of trauma treatment will be to provide you with coping skills, emotional regulation strategies, cognitive restructuring, and an ability to reframe your experiences. Though your story might feel like a long, depressing melodrama at the moment, counseling gives you a chance to change the plot and unshackle yourself from the past. 

The Modalities We Use

We’re also big nerds about scientifically validated, trauma-specific approaches that reduce stress and actually change the way that trauma is stored in the brain. Some of the proven methods we use are:

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) – don’t be fooled by the technical name; this therapy is gentle, nonverbal, and extremely effective in reprocessing trauma through the nervous system using eye movement. 
• Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) – our clients are successful, high-achieving people who were the ones to ask their school teachers for extra homework. So, we like to draw from this highly structured treatment model that lays out steps for creating an account of what happened and challenging the distorted beliefs that have occurred as a result. 
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) – it is so exhausting to be fighting against your thoughts and feelings all the time! This counseling approach helps facilitate a stronger sense of acceptance in your life while empowering you to live in accordance with the values that ongoing trauma has overshadowed. 
• Brainspotting – similar to EMDR, this therapy uses the visual field to locate and process trauma that has been stored in the body. 
• Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – age-old cognitive techniques are combined with trauma-informed interventions to inform a healthier, more balanced outlook and experience. 

When these approaches are combined to fit your needs, they have the potential to turn that ick into insight, paving the way toward healing. Our practice also offers clients access to The Akademie, where additional resources can be found.

We know you’re tired of feeling haunted and bogged down by the effects of trauma, but therapy is a meaningful way to understand the connections between past wounds and current pains. You are capable of healing those scars.