Trauma
Specialized care for PTSD, complex trauma, and emotional recovery in Omaha, NE.
You’ve Gone Through Something Scary
Trauma can result from any horrible thing happening to you or you witnessing or hearing about a traumatic event happening to others. The event is so shocking to the system, you can’t make sense of it. Your emotions, thoughts, and physical experience of the event can become stuck, leading to trauma. Trauma can be triggered by moments where your life is being threatened, when you’ve witnessed a disastrous event, or been neglected of love. Trauma causes people to feel less-than, broken, and undeserving. The guilt and shame of what happened to you causes physical changes and uncontrollable emotions.
PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) can occur when an individual suffers a single traumatic event, such as a serious traffic accident, a traumatic medical experience, or an instance of assault. C-PTSD (complex post-traumatic stress disorder) can occur when significant trauma happens at a young age, involving someone close to you, or involving repeated trauma. CPTSD events include abuse/neglect as a child, ongoing domestic violence, repeated exposure and witnessing of violence, and the torture of having to see your abuser on a regular basis.
Signs of PTSD & CPTSD
- Memories, flashbacks, and nightmares that replay the event
- You work to avoid reminders of the trauma
- Overwhelm, disconnection, and extreme emotional changes
- Irritability, feeling on edge, hypervigilance, lack of feeling safe
- Trouble focusing and concentrating
- Poor sleep, appetite, and self-care
- Difficulty maintaining relationships and jobs
- Intense feelings of worthlessness, helplessness, guilt, and hopelessness
- Physical symptoms and pain
- Thoughts of self-harm and/or suicide
Time Does Not Heal All Wounds!
Flashbacks and intrusive memories cause you mental and physical anguish. And despite overwhelming exhaustion, you fear falling asleep because that is where the nightmares happen.
For a while you were able to push the pain and memories deep inside. You worked hard to strive for a life beyond your past. Emotions were ignored and ridiculed as a crutch to embrace failure or an excuse to behave badly. Your efforts were recognized at work for being a top performer yet you were never able to appreciate the success.
You had it all together and even enjoyed life a bit. Out of nowhere, you are shocked. You no longer experience life as yours, and everything seems slow. You feel on edge, unable to relax, and you overreact. You live in a fog and cannot shake the looming grey cloud that follows you.
You didn’t realize it at the time, but you got triggered. Even though you are far away from the destruction of the past, the trigger sent you right back. And you feel it as your body responds like you are re-experiencing the events all over again. Your mind is unable to make a coherent thought. Your emotions and mind are at war! You don’t have to suffer in silence or feel alone. We can help you put the past in the past.
Time Does Not Heal All Wounds!
Flashbacks and intrusive memories cause you mental and physical anguish. And despite overwhelming exhaustion, you fear falling asleep because that is where the nightmares happen.
For a while you were able to push the pain and memories deep inside. You worked hard to strive for a life beyond your past. Emotions were ignored and ridiculed as a crutch to embrace failure or an excuse to behave badly. Your efforts were recognized at work for being a top performer yet you were never able to appreciate the success.
You had it all together and even enjoyed life a bit. Out of nowhere, you are shocked. You no longer experience life as yours, and everything seems slow. You feel on edge, unable to relax, and you overreact. You live in a fog and cannot shake the looming grey cloud that follows you.
You didn’t realize it at the time, but you got triggered. Even though you are far away from the destruction of the past, the trigger sent you right back. And you feel it as your body responds like you are re-experiencing the events all over again. Your mind is unable to make a coherent thought. Your emotions and mind are at war! You don’t have to suffer in silence or feel alone. We can help you put the past in the past.
What Can You Get From Therapy?
Therapy can help you reduce the emotional despair, grief, rage, sorrow, fear, and hopelessness to make room for compassion, peace, and joy. The mess that trauma left behind can be worked through, allowing you to finally be free! Free of the doubt and guilt you have beat yourself up with for not snapping out of it. Through therapy you will be able to realize that you, at one time, had to disconnect from your emotions to survive your traumatic experiences. As you attempt to experience the good in life, you want to not be overrun by the negativity. Trauma focused therapy can help you build the emotional capacity to experience emotions in a controlled way.
What is EMDR?
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is an evidence-based therapy that helps the brain heal from trauma and distressing experiences. Instead of talking through every detail, EMDR uses guided eye movements or similar stimulation to help the brain reprocess painful memories. This allows the emotional intensity, fear, and overwhelm connected to those memories to decrease over time. Many people experience relief, clearer thinking, and more balanced reactions as their brain learns to store the memory without the same level of distress.
Transform How Your Mind Heals
EMDR is a specialized therapy that helps your brain process traumatic or overwhelming experiences in a safe, guided way. It can reduce distress, improve emotional regulation, and support long-term healing.
A Gentle Approach to Inner Healing
Internal Family Systems helps you explore the protective and wounded parts within you that influence your thoughts and reactions. This approach supports deep emotional healing and encourages greater self-awareness and balance.
Transform How Your Mind Heals
EMDR is a specialized therapy that helps your brain process traumatic or overwhelming experiences in a safe, guided way. It can reduce distress, improve emotional regulation, and support long-term healing.
A Gentle Approach to Inner Healing
Internal Family Systems helps you explore the protective and wounded parts within you that influence your thoughts and reactions. This approach supports deep emotional healing and encourages greater self-awareness and balance.