Trauma Therapy in Salt Lake City, UT? How Does It Work?
Healing From a Traumatic Event is Possible
Trauma therapy can help you feel relief from symptoms you are experiencing emotionally or physically from a traumatic event.
There have been many advances in understanding how trauma impacts our bodies and emotions. There are now some highly effective treatments today to look for. The evidence-based modalities to look for are EMDR ( Eye Movement Reprocessing Desensitization), Somatic Reprocessing, and Internal Family Systems work.
Common trauma symptoms that can be resolved are persistent anxiety or depression intense fear or avoidance of items or places that remind you of the traumatic event. For some people, intense feelings of vulnerability or persistent crying can make daily life feel impossible. Even sleep can be disrupted by untreated trauma. Trauma can put a strain on a person’s ability to manage daily relationships. Work relationships can feel exhausting or impossible sometimes. Romantic relationships can be filled with conflict or disconnections. Parenting children can feel more stressful and impossible than it had before the traumatic event. When these challenges are not resolved everyone suffers from the trauma.
But it does not have to stay that way! Make some time to start looking around in your area for a licensed mental health professional with specialty training in trauma recovery.
Trauma Therapy Only Works When You Are Ready.
When you are ready, trauma therapy works! Go at your own pace. But move forward even tiny steps….
Often a person after a traumatic experience does not want to reopen the pain, but would rather regain the stability of their daily life. Gaining daily stability is part of trauma treatment. This can look like improving sleep, life schedules that are less stressful, or supporting your new needs. In my experience as a trauma therapist, people need to be ready on many levels before they can investigate painful material. People usually need steady emotional support in their daily lives, weekly time to devote to the therapy process, and financial resources to consistently attend weekly therapy.
Therapy at Shade Tree Family Counseling does not have to dive immediately into the core of the trauma experience. In fact good trauma therapy moves slowly and understands your needs and pace. Right now you may only need help developing a plan for how to improve stability in your life. Or you may just want to learn about why trauma impacts your life so intensely so you feel less shame when you get triggered.
Trauma Recovery Happens in Stages Over Your Life.
Trauma recovery is like peeling an onion… you only need to focus on one layer at a time.
This is great news because it means you don’t have to feel the pressure to resolve every layer all in one session or in one month or even one year. You can address just what is difficult for you presently. Then if you feel good, end therapy and move on with your life. You can go to therapy peel away one layer and feel huge relief and move on with your life. Then 5 -10 years later you may notice another layer and then you can return and address that layer too.
How Does Trauma Therapy Work?
It works by finding a trauma therapist whom you feel at ease with and who is a licensed mental health professional who has been trained in the stages of trauma recovery care.
You must like the person you work with and feel they like you. You must feel at ease enough that you could grow to trust them even when you are vulnerable and overwhelmed. The experience of a relationship that you can trust and you feel understanding is essential to your recovery process. You don’t have to talk about the traumatic events right away. You can just spend time talking about the other aspects of your life. Identifying your strengths and the areas of your life where you feel at ease and in control will become very helpful when you are ready to address the trauma.
Eventually, you will learn about the trauma recovery therapy options, such as EMDR and Somatic Therapy. Over time you will pick one and try it out. Your trauma therapist will be very patient with your exploration. When you are ready to reprocess the traumatic events it could take one session or many depending on the complexity of the trauma. Most importantly by trusting your pace you will regain a feeling of control and trust in your own emotional body again in your own way.
Trauma recovery must be on your own time and in your own way. When something happens to you that is traumatic, it is often out of your control. For healing to occur it must be in your control.
Begin Healing With Trauma Therapy in Salt Lake City, UT!
Take the courageous step towards healing by embracing trauma therapy, where you can find a safe space to explore your experiences and emotions. Together with a skilled trauma therapist at Shade Tree Family Counseling, you'll unravel the knots of unprocessed trauma and learn effective coping mechanisms to reclaim control over your life. Your journey towards healing begins now—reach out for support and start paving the path towards a brighter, more resilient tomorrow. Follow these three simple steps to get started:
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if Trauma Therapy is right for you
Begin meeting with a skilled trauma therapist
Start your healing journey!
Other Services Offered at Shade Tree Family Counseling
At Shade Tree Family Counseling, we want to provide support for the whole family. So in addition to helping you cope and begin healing from your past trauma in Trauma Therapy, our team offers teen counseling for teens struggling to overcome depression, anxiety, family conflict, and more. We also provide Teen Group Therapy for teens looking for extra support from those their own age. For more about trauma therapy check out our blog!