We specialise in the impact of trauma and developmental trauma and stress-related disorders. This could be a ‘one off’ overwhelming event, such as a car accident, violent attack, significant loss, to mini traumas such as traumatic stress and overwhelming events that have gone on in our lives. Trauma also includes events that are almost invisible, such as relational issues, illness, or a series of events or experiences stretching back to childhood, such as neglect ,abuse or poor relationships with early attachment figures.

 

Trauma Therapy uses an integrative and holistic approach to recovery. We use a psychotherapeutic and somatic body-oriented therapy for people who have experienced childhood trauma (including neglect, emotional or verbal abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse), any single event trauma, repeated trauma, vicarious trauma or generational trauma. 

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Trauma is not what happened to us but what happens inside us as a result of the events. The ways that we constrict and become more limited in our responses as a result. The adaptations we make that enable us to survive. 

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​People may seek therapy because they do remember a traumatic event. This includes a broad range of experiences including, but not limited to, sexual abuse, rape, torture, accidents, medical procedures, bereavement, natural disasters, war and so on.

People coming for this therapy may be experiencing PTSD, CPTSD or other trauma-related symptoms and syndromes.

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Our brains have a natural information processing system that may get blocked when traumatic or adverse events occur. This can overwhelm our ability to cope, causing them to get locked in the brain with the original picture, sounds, thoughts, feelings, and body sensations — like a scene from a movie. Whenever we encounter a reminder of the event, the same distressing response may be triggered, , where in trauma the body, nervous system and brain lives in the past.

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Therapies that only focus on thoughts or emotions fail to address the ways in which trauma is stored in the body. The deeper healing work then goes untouched and the root cause unexplored. You may walk out of a session thinking, ‘that just didn’t work for me’. Using a trauma-specific approach, We work with the whole person to help calm the survival and emotional part of the brain first, so we can then access the thinking brain … and create lasting, transformational change.

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Trauma Therapy aims to complete thwarted fight or flight responses and release the biophysical survival energies which are locked into terrifying patterns of fear / anxiety / anger / shutdown / PTSD.

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Sessions may include:

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• Body-based exercises

• Talk therapies

• Emotional Freedom Technique

• The Rewind technique

• Somatic therapy

• Creative Art Therapy

• Applied Polyvagal Therapy

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma. Attachment and Developmental Injuries 

• Trauma-informed Yoga

• The Safe & Sound Protocol

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