Your body remembers well the worst times you've experienced and now your living life with PTSD.
You’re jumpy. Irritable.
The headaches from the memories constantly on mental replay.
The stress of your trauma grips and shakes you again and again.
The nightmares that mean sleep won’t come easy.
The pain of your experience keeps you not only exhausted but hyper-vigilant as well.
You don’t have to continue on this way.
Life with PTSD is too hard without help.
To put your trauma behind you, you’ll need guidance.
To adjust, to feel safe again, you’ll need understanding and support.
A counselor’s office can be the safe place you need to adjust to life with PTSD and find peace of mind.
Counseling Helps You Feel More Safe, Calm, and Competent
The goal in the beginning stage of therapy is to deal with the emotions that are holding your life hostage. The thoughts and feelings you are experiencing may be widely varied. You may feel out-of-control or incapable of managing everyday life and relationships.
As your therapist, I will focus on helping you regulate the overwhelming feelings of fear and dread, the constant need to be vigilant, or the desire to ignore or suppress all reminders of your trauma. I will also pay special attention to helping you develop a higher stress tolerance and an increased ability to recognize and avoid unhelpful thought patterns.
This phase will help you move out of perpetual crisis and will support your need and desire to regain some control.
Counseling Helps You Examine and Reconsider Your Trauma
The work of processing your traumatic experience is tackled carefully and considerately at this stage. You’ll consider how your perceptions of that event or series of events has harmed your current life and connections.
The stress of the trauma has been locked inside you, keeping you mentally and physiologically overwhelmed for too long. Your bodily systems have been strained and your mind has been taxed with the chore of trying to exist in a persistent state of survival.
To ease the burden on your brain and body, as your counselor, I will engage you as little or as much as you can tolerate, helping you reflect on what you’ve endured. Therapy provides the space to explore the realities and interpretations of your experience in a time frame that is appropriate for you.
Counseling Helps You Firmly Establish Your Ability to Adapt and Move Forward
At this point, I will assists you in becoming as emotionally and mentally healthy as possible. You will have the emotional tolerance and cognitive skills to keep your PTSD in check and the clarity that accompanies understanding the lasting affects of the trauma. This phase bolsters those qualities with sessions devoted to your resilience and ability to adapt to life with, but not dominated by, PTSD.
I will help you determine the most beneficial steps to take going forward. Together you’ll build a network of support systems, self-care routines, and possible future group or family counseling sessions that will help maintain and reinforce the gains you made on your own.
PTSD causes triggers and disturbs cycles in your body that you are wise to address as soon as you can. You don’t have to live this way.
Why not begin your healing now?
Reach out to a counselor who will guide you through the damage PTSD has done to your life, relationships, and your physical body. As a PTSD specialist, I truly understands your need to see your most painful, intrusive memories fade. Counseling is not a sign of weakness, but a sign that you are finally ready to heal and move on.
If you are looking for a psychotherapist or need further help understanding life with PTSD, please contact me for a free consultation to learn about how I can be of service.
To find out more about my services click here: PTSD Treatment. Serving Boulder, Longmont, Denver..
