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How does trauma therapy work?

Recovering from trauma means finally feeling safe.

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How can trauma therapy help?

Here's What Safety, Healing, And Growth Look Like.

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Trust that you can protect and care for yourself.

Recognize when trauma responses are triggered.

Understand how trauma responses protected you in the past.

Realize you are stronger and safer now.

Listen to yourself and understand your needs.

Learn healthy ways to protect and care for yourself.

Trust yourself to build healthy relationships.

Understand, accept, and care for all of yourself.

Recognize when you recreate traumatic relationships.

Reevaluate trauma based beliefs.

Know what safe people and relationships feel like.

Live with the past rather than in it.

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Know you deserve to be loved and accepted for who you are.

Recognize your inherent worth as a human being.

Know you deserve to be treated with respect and kindness.

Improve self-esteem and thrive.

Confidently assert your needs and boundaries.

Nurture healthy relationships.

Ready to feel safe in your thoughts, emotions, body, and relationships?

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Treating surface symptoms of trauma isn't enough.

Trauma leaves you feeling unsafe in your body, emotions, thoughts, and relationships. Healing trauma requires a collaborative relationship that restores a sense of safety, empowerment, and justice. This becomes a model for healthy relationships and provides:

Safety to regulate and understand overwhelming emotions.

Healing through making new meaning of your experiences and finding what is true for you.

Growth from taking calculated risks to build self-esteem and healthy relationships.

Feel safe being yourself and be loved for who you are.

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4 tools to help you feel safer.

Grounding in the here and now helps when you feel unsafe, overwhelmed, numb, or foggy.

It helps you separate the past from the present, recognize whether the present is safe enough, and see the choices/resources available to you. Take your time with each step. Notice how you feel before you start and what’s changed when you finish. If this exercise gets too uncomfortable, stop and talk to a therapist.

Recall what year it is, how old you are, and where you are now. Describe where you are now using each of your five senses.

Focus on the sensations of your feet against the ground. Push your feet into the ground. Scrunch your toes.

Take deep slow breaths, pausing between inhaling and exhaling. Gently tense your muscles as you fully expand your chest and belly. Then let your muscles relax as you gently release all the air.

Remind yourself of the ways that the present is safer than the past and of the resources you have now that you didn’t have then.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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Trauma therapy can help you process and heal from past traumatic experiences by providing a safe, supportive environment where you can explore and understand the impact of trauma on your life. Through specialized techniques, such as EMDR, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, or somatic approaches, you’ll learn how to reframe distressing memories, reduce the emotional intensity of triggers, and build healthier coping mechanisms. Trauma therapy also helps you regain a sense of control, rebuild self-trust, and cultivate resilience, empowering you to move forward without being weighed down by the past.

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Safety

Build a meaningful connection with your therapist. Feeling validated, heard, and respected will improve the therapeutic relationship.

Honesty

Being honest with yourself is not always easy, so it can be hard to share with your therapist too. When trust and comfort exist, honesty can surface.

Connection

Once we are honest with ourselves,
we make room for learning and growth. Growth may look like breaking old patterns, creating new habits, and establishing a plan to meet goals.

Appointment Hours :

  • Monday - Friday : 9am-1pm
  • Saturday/Sunday: Closed

Online Therapy in Virginia

For your convenience, my teletherapy services are available across the state of Virginia, including Alexandria, Arlington, Chesapeake, Hampton, Harrisonburg, Leesburg, Lynchburg, Manassas, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Reston, Richmond, Roanoke, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach.

If you need to send me mail, you can do so at this address:

1550 Wilson Blvd Ste. 700 #226, Arlington, VA 22209

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