Individual Therapy for Children and Adults
Trauma - Whether from a specific incident or the cumulative effect of many experiences, all of us carry some trauma wounds. The wounds may have happened recently, or may be the result of not getting our needs met as children: Even loving parents sometimes can't meet their children's needs due to the personal challenges they face. Sometimes the bad habits we've developed to cope with our trauma wounds work pretty well for us; Often however, our coping mechanisms either don't work well, or begin to cause more problems than they solve. When this happens we develop more of the following symptoms:
• Anxiety.
• Depression.
• Sleep Problems (too much, too little, night terrors, etc.)
• Emotional Dysregulation (emotional responses out of proportion to the circumstances.)
• Panic Attacks.
• Flashbacks.
• Phobias (eg. fear of dentists or tight spaces, etc.)
• Difficulty focusing attention.
• A sense of being overwhelmed by life; unable to make decisions or move forward.
• A sense that what is going on around us isn't real, or is very distant.
• Difficulty forming or maintaining healthy and satisfying relationships.