You may be struggling with the recent loss or other kind of trauma, or an old one. PTSD can feel like you're stuck reliving the traumatic event. Complicated grief can give you prolonged, obsessive thoughts about your loved one and it hurts to yearn for reunification with them. Without the right support and a validating environment, your pain could drag on indefinitely. 

 

Have you experienced a traumatic event in your life? Have you been able to resolve it, or do you need help? If you don't have enough support to resolve it naturally, you might be thinking about it all the time, or having nightmares and intrusive images of what happened to you. You might feel edgy, easily startled, or panicky about things that remind you of the trauma. It might negatively impact your close relationships with people like your family, friends and lovers. 

 

Post traumatic stress can be painful to live with, but luckily, there's help! With my skills and experience as a trauma therapist, you can build skills to cope with  emotional instability, anger, flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, and feeling empty. We also go beyond trauma recovery by examining how the trauma can help you grow and change for the better. There's a new field of study called posttraumatic growth, that emphasizes how you can grow and learn from traumatic events. This sure beats thinking of yourself as broken or damaged, right?