TRAUMA THERAPY
Make sense of your trauma history and feel more grounded in your life.
Serving Santa Monica and greater Los Angeles. Online therapy offered to California residents.
When trauma happens, you need trauma-informed and competent therapy to support your recovery.
COMMON MYTH: All therapists know how to treat trauma-related disorders.
But what if I told you… recovering from trauma is a very particular kind of healing. It requires specialty and trauma-informed practitioners to help you process your trauma and manage the symptoms.
But what if you’ve tried different therapists and coaches and you just can’t seem to fully manage your trauma response.
Trauma is never your fault. It’s unjust and we usually want to avoid the traumatic memory and feelings as much as possible.
But, when trauma goes unaddressed it can lead to…
Feeling disconnected in your relationships
Feeling overwhelmed for most of your day
Feeling chronically unsafe in your environment, your relationships and your body
Feeling scared to leave your home or be alone
Worrying that another trauma will happen again, causing you to avoid social interactions and other “risky” environments
We help you make sense of your trauma history so that you feel more grounded in your life and connected in your relationships.
The aftermath of trauma can feel like:
Frequent obsessive thoughts about the traumatic event
Dreams, nightmares or flashbacks about the traumatic event
Sudden shift in your world view, believing that most things are bad and most people have bad intentions
Avoiding all reminders of your trauma, including people, places, smells, and similar circumstances
Shutting down when things feel stressful because life feels too overwhelming most of the time
Difficulty having functional relationships because of the ever-present sense of lack of safety with others
You might also feel:
Upset stomach
Sweaty palms or underarms
Foggy thoughts or frequent dissociation
Depression and anxiety
Getting easily sidetracked with reminders of your trauma
Racing and un-welcomed thoughts
Unexplained physical symptoms
Did you know that trauma can be treated? It’s not hopeless. there are ways for us to manage your trauma symptoms and help you get your life back.
It’s estimated that over 224 million adults have experienced at least one trauma in their lives. It’s incredibly common, albeit horrifying. After trauma, your world can feel unsafe and then anxiety makes your body feel unsafe too.
The good news? It’s treatable and we specialize in helping you cope.
Trauma can happen at any time in your life and it leaves you feeling helpless and overwhelmed.
We provide treatment using trauma-informed insight therapy.
Here are some of the ways that we treat trauma at Woven Together Trauma Therapy:
Perhaps you grew up in a codependent household where you developed chronic people-pleasing tendencies and a deep fear of disappointing others. We provide codependency therapy to help you stop the exhausting cycle of codependency and people-pleasing that begin with an erratic, chaotic and unpredictable environment growing up.
Perhaps you grew up in a traumatic environment and experienced childhood abuse, neglect or other traumas. We provide therapy for Complex PTSD and help you manage your deep trauma responses and help you feel safe again.
Perhaps you experienced a trauma and now you suffer from Panic Disorder with frequent panic attacks that leave you gasping for air and fearful that you won’t ever feel like yourself again. We provide anxiety therapy to teach you skills for overcoming your panic and making sense of your traumatic experience.
Perhaps you developed obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors as a way to try to create safety and security in your life after a horrifying trauma. But all that checking, worrying, and cleaning isn’t making you feel any better. We help you stop the terrifying cycle of obsessions and compulsions.
Perhaps you experienced a traumatic birth, leaving you feeling completely shocked and disconnected from your new reality. We provide perinatal therapy for anxiety and depression for new parents.
Perhaps you’ve experienced postpartum trauma, infant or pregnancy loss, betrayal trauma, sexual assault or abuse, religious abuse, or foster and adoption trauma and you find yourself completely lost in your anxiety that these really bad things are going to happen again. This is when you call in the experts. We have trauma and specialized trauma therapist to help you process your experiences and weave together a new story for your life.