What is depersonalisation in trauma therapy?
First, with depersonalisation makes you feel not like your true self. As well, with trauma, you may have times when you feel separate from yourself and your body. Are you feeling detached, aloof, angry, or estranged from others? As well, do you feel that no one is trustworthy or the world is unsafe? Maybe, you went through a huge, scary experience recently. Sometimes, victims of trauma wrongly blame themselves or others for their trauma experience. With trauma comes a hots of emotions from sadness and loss to frustration and irritability. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in holistic trauma therapy. Complex trauma therapy in Old Saybrook, Connecticut integrate your mind, body, and your spirit for deep healing.
Now, do you feel that you are living in a dream? Trauma counseling can help.
Right now, you may feel emotionally numb to the experience that was so painful. Maybe, someone you love hurt your feelings. Or, your spouse betrayed you by cheating. As well, traumatic memories may be hard to recall or remember.
And, therapy can be a safe place to talk about and process the painful things happened.
These painful memories may be hard to talk about. After going through trauma, it may feel like you are watching yourself walk down the road. Maybe, you don’t feel at home within your body because it was violated. Many times, people of all ages who go through trauma experience depersonalization. And, depersonalization can be very difficult to talk about for someone experiencing it. So, we offer a creative, expressive arts therapy approach. You can pick from art therapies, yoga therapies, music therapies, and walk and talk in nature. Lastly, people who experience depersonalization often have complex PTSD.
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder is a severe trauma disorder.
On that note, with complex PTSD, you may have trouble trusting, trouble sleeping, and eating. Many times, people with complex PTSD may also have an eating disorder, or restrictive eating behaviors. As well, CPTSD is a condition where you experience some symptoms of PTSD along with some additional mental health symptoms. Maybe, there is anger, irritation, tearfulness, and inner conflict. So, you may have anxiety, depression, chronic illness, chronic pain, and also feel distrustful towards people all together. In addition, people with C-PTSD have a difficult time controlling their emotions and get angry easily.
Do you experience deep anger at the world from a trauma you experienced?
Sometimes, people with C-PTSD feel very angry or the world due to trauma. Often, anger is the easier emotion to demonstrate, but deep down there is loss and sadness. As well, a person with C-PTSD may feel more tearful or emotional. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in complex post traumatic stress disorder recovery.At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in trauma counseling and empowerment. Essentially, experiencing trauma at an early age plays a role in relationships today.
After trauma, you might experience a negative view of yourself.
Frequently, people with complex post traumatic stress disorder feel helpless and perceive themselves in a negative way. For instance, after going through trauma, you might have low self-worth and guilt. As well, you might even feel there is a stigma around your trauma experience. Maybe, you blame yourself or feel guilt for trauma happening to you. People who go through trauma need help remembering that they are whole and complete. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we teach positive self talk skills. And, your therapist can help support positive, nurturing relationships.
Essentially, going through trauma makes you doubt yourself and even can leave the thoughts of suicide.
Sometimes, after a traumatic experience, you might even have difficulties with relationships and dating. And, you may have trouble trusting other people. It can be hard to make new friends after a trauma. In addition, maintaining long term friendships is challenging for someone who has a trauma history. As well, in a romantic relationship, you might repeatedly search for someone to rescue you or make you feel complete. After a traumatic experience, you might even find your self isolating from others.
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling specializes in trauma therapy and a holistic approach to confidence.
Symptoms of trauma and reasons to seek trauma counseling
After trauma, we help people who experience distressing dreams, flashbacks, nightmares, and frequent panic attacks. In addition, we help people who have intrusive thoughts such as repeated, negative, involuntary memories. Plus, our therapists help people who have flashbacks of the traumatic event.
Maybe, you can’t get the bad memories out of your mind.
And, all you see when you close your eyes is the negative memory replaying itself. Ongoing fear, horror, anger, guilt, or shame are symptoms of complex trauma. Often, people with trauma also experience a significant decrease in interest in activities previously enjoyed. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we can help you build a positive coping tool box after trauma.
How does stress and trauma in childhood play a role in trauma counseling?
To add, dissociative disorders result from trauma and stress in young years and childhood. But, not from adulthood traumas. So, they stem from chronic trauma, which is chronic childhood abuse. For example, if you experienced episodes of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, this is trauma. And, you may be experiencing dissociation. Lastly, dissociative disorders are common with PTSD and C-PTSD.
What is complex post traumatic stress disorder?
Most times, people with C-PTSD have this disorder because the trauma was so severe. Maybe, you were molested as a child or raped over and over. And, the trauma occurred during childhood plays a role in C-PTSD now. But, people with C-PTSD can live a healthy and happy life. Essentially, the trauma, emotionally, physically or sexually, had big developmental impact. Perhaps, you parents were alcoholics or abused drugs in your presence. Or, you lost a sibling at a young age and you parents physically abused you. Furthermore, CPTSD often stems from ongoing, chronic childhood neglect experiences. So, you may have lived in a home where there was domestic abuse or violence. As well, maybe you had an experience of human trafficking, or living in a war-torn region for a part of your childhood.
On that note, both PTSD and CPTSD require professional mental health care and specialized PTSD treatments.
Due to its complex nature, CPTSD therapy is more holistic, integrative. So, you may use mind-body therapies in addition to talk counseling. We focus on offering a whole person approach where you can feel confident being yourself. As well, C-PTSD therapy is often more intense, frequent, comprehensive, and extensive than PTSD treatment. So, you may want to come to therapy two times per week verses just one time.
The difference between CPTSD and PTSD is that PTSD usually occurs after a single traumatic event.
To note, CPTSD is associated with repeated trauma. Essentially, events that can lead to PTSD include a single time serious accident. For example, a sexual assault can lead to PTSD. As well, a traumatic childbirth experience, such as losing a baby can lead to PTSD. Regardless of whether you have PTSD or C-PTSD, you can gain hope, clarity, and confidence from counseling.
As well, people who have PTSD may explode with anger or feel out of control from the painful experience they wen through.
You might not feel like yourself right now. Well, Wisdom Within Counseling Team can help you develop a spiritual sense of connection to yourself. And, you can build skills for hopefulness. If you are suffering with complex PTSD, we can help you learn how to trust yourself and trust the world. Plus, yoga, art therapies, and expressive trauma therapies help you cope in positive ways.
Sometimes, people who live with complex post traumatic stress disorder have substance and alcohol use disorders too.
It might feel like what you are experiencing is overwhelming or too much. Therefore, holistic counseling gives you inner resources and positive coping tools. In addition, we are happy to help coordinate with your physician or healthcare provider. Complex PTSD is one of our specialties and we can help you develop confidence and clarity. For instance, painting, art, and yoga therapies help you express emotions after trauma. In complex trauma therapy in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, you can pick from creative expressive art therapies. Maybe, you want more than just talking for self-esteem tools. Wisdom Within Counseling can help you thrive after trauma.
If you are living with any symptoms of complex PTSD, book a phone consultation below.
Now, what traumas cause disassociation? How does it begin?
Now, what causes dissociative identity disorder (DID)? Well, DID is usually the result of sexual or physical abuse that is ongoing during childhood. In formative years, the mind became changed. Sometimes, DID develops in response to other traumatic events like ongoing military combat and war life. Essentially, dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a disorder where someone survives by distancing or detaching themselves from the trauma. And, while trauma is happening, this is a coping tool. But, the negative coping tools and emotional detachment continues after the trauma is over.
We are a highly specialized group of marriage and family therapists with extensive training.
On that note, we help anxious children, depressed, self-harming teens with eating disorders, LGBTQIA+ curious adults, and distant couples. We teach skills and positive coping tools for emotional confidence. We offer options in addition to sitting and traditional talking to go beyond words, when needed, when children and adults don’t want to talk, including play therapy, art, yoga, meditation, music and outdoor walking therapies by the beach.
To get started, book your phone consult to get placed with the best fit therapist on our team.
Our team offers in person and video openings and a creative, relationship-building approach to helping families thrive.
We offer holistic marriage and family therapy, yoga therapy and a holistic PTSD counseling specialty. Furthermore, we specialize in child, teen and couples therapy. As well, we specialize in queer affirming and LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy. For instance, walk and talk therapy outdoors supports healing from complex trauma. So, if you want more than talking, holistic walk and talk therapy along the shoreline can support trauma recovery. For one, with walk and talk therapy, you learn to live in the present moment. Plus, you get mind-body support while walking and talking and a lifelong coping skill.
Complex trauma therapy in Old Saybrook, Connecticut therapy helps you gain self-esteem and personal power back.
