Trauma informed counselling for recovery from complex PTSD (cPTSD), developmental trauma, and relational trauma such as parental abandonment or separation, emotional neglect, narcissistic parenting and/or substance use, and abuse. Symptoms of unaddressed trauma range from negative thoughts about self, excessive self-doubt and self-criticism, emotional outbursts or numbness, being triggered in relationships, hypervigilance, depression, anxiety, and general malaise.

Treatment includes safety and stabilization, trust building, psychoeducation, psychosomatic skills building, stress resilience training, reuniting with lost parts of self (Inner Child Work), mindfulness approaches, narrative therapy and developing a therapeutic lifestyle to move clients in the direction of post traumatic growth and recovery.

COUNSELLING FOR TRAUMA