If You’re Asking ...
Should I go to therapy for childhood trauma?
Many adults seek therapy with me who have a traumatic past.
Childhood trauma can include:
- Childhood Sexual Trauma
- Childhood Emotional Trauma
- Childhood Physical Trauma
Trauma history, trauma feelings, trauma thoughts, and trauma behavior patterns can interfere with one or more aspects of someone’s daily life.
When you are an intelligent and sensitive person with childhood trauma, you may experience worry, moral dilemmas, and vigilance, among others. These experieces can increase the sense of letdown, despair, and defeat that increase life’s challenges. Shame, guilt, fear, anger, and sadness might bleed their way into personal, social, romantic, and professional aspects of life, making typical self and social engagement difficult.
You might feel the push and pull of I’ve got to continue with my progress! and There’s no way I can get over this.
Such Come here!/Go away! patterns are confusing and frustrating.
Know that your discomfort and discontent makes sense. You don’t need to be stuck forever. Your past is painful and it is not your albatros.
You can still build a life of worth.
Childhood trauma therapy for adults
With childhood trauma therapy for adults, help is available in several ways: Reprocessing and working through trauma, Learning how to self-regulate and tolerate stress, Building stronger positive relationships, and Creating new narratives to understand your story, your values and your self-worth. You can build goals and achieve them. You can move forward.
In childhood trauma therapy for adults, it is important to have a psychologist who offers person-centered therapy. Seek someone who recognizes and celebrates your humanity. Seek a psychologist who can validate experiences and challenge you to create new positive possibilities for post traumatic growth.
Aspects of childhood therapy for adults include: Improving positive self-talk, understanding the range and functions of all emotions and how they can be effective, and enhancing skills to live your life in the present.
It is important in childhood trauma therapy for adults that the psychologist helps you to normalize your responses to trauma, both for the child you were and for the adult you are today.
Learn how childhood trauma can affect your adult relationships.
Understand how childhood trauma affects
being an adult.
Recognize how childhood
trauma can be repaired in adulthood.
Discover how childhood victims can become survivors and thrivers.
Treating Childhood Trauma in Adults
Traumatic responses can often continue into adulthood after the specific traumas have ended. Sometimes you may find yourself repeating behaviors or recreating trauma patterns and reliving experiences. Both the effects of the trauma history from the past and the present can be addressed in therapy and patterns can be shifted.
As mental health stigma and childhood trauma stigma are still apparent, you deserve to know and understand that the circumstances upon which you found yourself in were atypical. They were abnormal. However, the way your have operated in these past situations and the way you operate now are typically normal responses to outlandish experiences. This recognition can reduce sensations of loneliness and despair that encapsulate traumatic behavior.
Seek therapy that utilizes insight and understanding combined with an increase in knowledge, skills, and abilities. You can learn to move flexibly between being one with and being separate from intense emotions and thoughts. You can shift behavior patterns to park the past in the past and begin to live a fuller life.
Let’s face it…
Some things happened to you that were really scary.
Things that were horrific and terrible. Things that were beyond your control.
These acts are not unspeakable or unmentionable.
You can find your voice.
Congratulations.
You made it
to this day.
You survived.
Now it is time
to thrive.
Take a step.
Contact me for a complimentary
20-minute phone consultation.
You deserve the opportunity to figure out what happened, how it changed you, and how you can live the life you want.
Move from secrecy and silence to disclosure to validation to game plan to skill building
to your own personal success.
