Trauma Therapy

Prolonged, repeated, and ongoing traumas such as neglect, abuse (physical/ sexual/verbal/ emotional), abandonment, exposure to violence, oppression, bullying, and more. Often resulting from repeated adverse childhood experiences; children who grow up in chaotic or unsafe home environments, those who don’t have their needs met by their caregivers or are parentified, those who do not form secure and healthy attachments, thereby suffering developmental and relational trauma.

Acute trauma after experiencing or witnessing a shocking, terrifying, or dangerous event. Some examples include sexual assault, domestic violence, combat, natural disasters, and car accidents.

The passing of trauma from one generation down to the next. This occurs through cycles of abuse and neglect, continuation of unhealthy family dynamics and traditions, and through epigenetics. Research on epigenetics shows that trauma affects us at a cellular level and can be passed on through our DNA to future generations.

The traumatic impact of an event on a group of people; even at a societal level. Some of these are single incident events such as a natural disaster or a mass shooting, and some occur over long periods of time such as global pandemics, oppression of a group of people, or genocide.