What is trauma and PTSD?
Trauma is anything negative, scary or on certain that occurs to you that leaves a lasting impact. For some, they go through experiences of childhood trauma. To note, trauma could include physical, sexual or emotional abuse. It can be a major car accident, loss of family member, or medical trauma. Infertility, miscarriage and birth trauma can be life changing traumas. Maybe, you grew up with alcoholic parents who were always yelling and in conflict. Unfortunately, family conflict is a trauma experience too. Somatic therapies for trauma support you in appreciating yourself as a survivor. All you have been through triggers fear, anger, irritability, and even sadness. With that said, somatic therapies for trauma recovery at Wisdom Within Counseling help you feel strong and calm. You can develop relaxation tools, security, and trust yourself again. Learning how to cope with trauma somatically is the key to resiliency.
Post traumatic stress disorder is the disorder that develops as a result of experiencing trauma.
Who gets PTSD?
Children, adolescents, and adults can all develop post traumatic stress disorder. It is not just a fact certain ages of people. As well, people of any ethnicity, culture, nationality or or gender can also develop PTSD symptoms.
Therefore, children and adults with post-traumatic stress disorder, called PTSD, may experience terrible nightmares. As well, bad memories of the trauma coming back is common, and anxiety or depression too.
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What are symptoms of having PTSD and needing holistic, somatic therapies for trauma recovery?
Additionally, if you suffer from PTSD, you may feel more irritable than usual, hostile, or angry. Furthermore, with experiences of trauma, he may have more issues with sleeping, nightmares, or insomnia.
You may experience a loss of motivation, loss of interest in hobbies, and no longer feel the same pleasure about life. Furthermore, if you suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, you may also feel guilty to blame yourself. Additionally, you may have confusing emotions from experiencing trauma. Lastly, it is normal to have a high level of anxiety after experiencing trauma.
With traumatic stress disorder, you may have mood swings from sadness, tearfulness, anger, and happiness.
For some, these mood swings may be confusing for family members. As well, PTSD symptoms can cause challenges like unemployment. Your somatic therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you better understand PTSD. At first, the symptoms you are experiencing due to post traumatic stress disorder can be confusing. Having PTSD can have a significant impact on your life. So, from counseling, you can learn ways to ask from help from your significant other, children, and even work life.
When are holistic, creative, somatic therapies for trauma important?
Sometimes, children, teenagers, and adults develop self-destructive behaviors after trauma. Notably, self-blame, self-hatred, and self-criticism are major issues with PTSD.
With so many intense emotions due to trauma, self sabotaging behaviors may develop. And, these destructive behaviors include substance abuse, self-harm, eating disorders, and alcoholism. Anger outburst, yelling, conflict, and challenges with relationships are common. More so, trust issues develop from PTSD and trauma. Therefore, stable friendships and healthy relationships may be more difficult to maintain.
Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut offers somatic, creative therapy for trauma.
Overall, our team of counselors at Wisdom Within specialize in complex trauma recovery. As a whole, Wisdom Within Counseling offers a variety of holistic, somatic, and mind-body treatment options. These somatic therapies are specifically for overcoming negative memories of trauma.
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What is somatic therapy?
People with PTSD and trauma live in a state of hyper vigilance. In fear mode and survival mode, this mindset helps you avoid more painful situation from reoccurring. However, somatic therapy can help you feel confident moving out of fear mode and survival mode. If you have PTSD, you are not alone. And, getting into counseling can help you manage flashbacks and talk about fears. Somatic therapies and creative therapies can help you truly heal from mind-body connection.
What somatic therapies in Southeastern Connecticut can help me?
Well, somatic therapy is about your mind and body together. Therefore, somatic therapy combines art, yoga, music, and walking. For one, yoga therapy provides inner peace. Additionally, art therapy reduces stress through creative expression. Then, music therapy provides outlets for emotions through sounds. And, drama therapy helps with role play and confidence. Furthermore, walking therapies in the fresh air and by the beach help in reducing PTSD symptoms. For one, somatic therapies reduce fears and severe anxiety. Holistic counseling and somatic therapies can help you develop a newfound sense of trust with yourself.
How can somatic therapies for trauma help with my trust issues?
After trauma and with PTSD symptoms, it’s normal to have trust issues. You might not know who you can rely on or who you can trust. Working with a therapist that understands complex trauma can help you learn about when your trust issues developed. And, your holistic, somatic therapist can give you tools to cope in healthy ways. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, you can gain positive coping tools to soothe, nurture, and accept yourself.
How are holistic, somatic therapies for trauma recovery essential to PTSD healing?
As a group of somatic, holistic therapists who specialize in complex PTSD recovery, you can feel safe opening up. Somatic therapies for trauma help you can learn how to release the pain past. You can separate from unwanted, negative thoughts.
What is the difference between talk therapy and mind-body therapies and somatic therapies?
Well, somatic therapies in Southeastern Connecticut at Wisdom Within are much different than talk counseling. On one hand, talk counseling can be helpful for some. You get to sit on the couch and talk about your problems. For some people, this works well. However, for those who have PTSD, talking about the negative, unwanted memories of the past causes stress hormones to elevate. And, you start to relive those negative experiences. Even though you might be sitting on a therapist’s couch, talking about the fear, pain, and loss from the trauma experiences creates negative fears.
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Somatic experiencing and somatic therapies in Southeastern Connecticut promote connection of mind and body.
Yes, you might still be sitting on a couch. However, you may use dough, clay, watercolor, or painting to create body-brain connection. Then, you are more calm and focusing on relaxation and safety. Somatic therapy is a unique form of building mind-body connection. While talking about trauma, your stress hormones will increase. Even, thinking about the past memories can lead to an increase in your stress hormones.
Art, painting, meditation, yoga, music, and breathing skills are lifelong positive coping tools for PTSD.
However, somatic experiencing and holistic therapies allow for that stress to be free through art. Painting, yoga, meditation, and walking therapies release stress in counseling. You can learn to release the feelings as they arise right in session.
How does somatic therapy work?
By using yoga, learning a breathing technique, or even learning a meditation, are you getting mind-body connection. This way, talking about trauma is less stressful and less emotionally painful. PTSD therapy can be emotional.
By going for a walk outdoors with your therapist, you can develop a healthy relationship with your mind, body, and spirit.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, your somatic therapist supports healing PTSD through holistic approaches.
Why is it so important to do somatic trauma therapy?
Therefore, the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help you cope with the negative sensations somatically. You can feel safe being vulnerable healing from past trauma. Right now, you may feel afraid, worry, anger, or sadness. Essentially, through holistic, mind-body, and somatic therapies, you can release and let go.
Essentially, somatic, holistic, creative therapies in Southeastern Connecticut help people stop self sabotaging.
Why does the team at Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut focus on somatic therapies?
When people talk about their traumas, there’s often a negative feedback loop internally of inner criticism, self hatred, or self blame. There might even be loneliness that comes from talking about bad past experiences. Talking about this openly can lead to fears of vulnerability, emotional shut down, or even anger. As well a feeling of worthlessness occurs when holistic, mind-body, somatic therapies are not available in trauma counseling.
After counseling that is talking only, self-sabotaging behaviors increase.
Then, those stress hormones have no where to go, but to self-sabotage.
Instead, somatic, holistic therapies reduce stress and providing a positive experience in Southeastern Connecticut trauma counseling.
To note, there are a lot of negative sensations associated with talking about past trauma. Without art, yoga, and somatic therapies, anger, conflict, drug use, self-harm, and alcoholism increase. To conclude, talking about trauma without somatic therapies leads to more negative emotions.
Walking as somatic therapy
Going for a walk by the beach, by the ocean, can be soothing. As well, walking is a lifelong coping tool for trauma healing. To note, therapy doesn’t have to be just sitting on a couch. Being in nature, smelling the salty, ocean air, and walking are calming. Additionally, these are holistic, somatic therapies for trauma in Southeastern Connecticut. To add, joyful movement and gentle walking and talking can be a part of PTSD and trauma counseling.
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Art and painting as somatic therapies for trauma
Painting, creating, and using clay are somatic therapies that support trauma recovery. Plus, painting, clay, and glitter gel pens help reduce stress hormones and improve inner peace. Furthermore, creative art therapies can be positive coping tools outside of trauma counseling too. Sitting face to face and talking about trauma can be too vulnerable and too intimidating. Therefore, sitting at an art table and painting helps children, teenagers, and adults feel safe building trust. Picking colors builds leadership and confidence. Decision making skills can improve through art therapies for trauma.
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Yoga therapy is one of Wisdom Within Counseling somatic therapies for trauma recovery
As well, yoga therapy in Southeastern Connecticut supports trauma healing. Mediation and mindfulness give your mind a tool to draw you back into the present moment. Poses, breathing skills, and essential oils can be a part of somatic therapies. As well, yoga therapy in Southeastern Connecticut is about relaxation. To note, after trauma, it can be hard to settle down and relax. Yoga therapy provides lifelong self-soothing and inner peace skills. So, Next time you feel anxiety or fears arising, you can use breathing skills or meditation to create safety within.
Music therapy supports trauma healing in East Lyme, Connecticut
Musical instruments support and language of healing beyond words. Shakers, drums, guitars, and a variety of options are available to you. Playing a drug can create a pleasant release. All ages of people benefit from using musical instruments to speak beyond words. Sounds are very healing. Feeling the vibration of playing an instrument creates mind-body connection. Each instrument makes a different sound, which stimulates curiosity and creativity. Both, curiousness and creativity promote trauma healing and present moment thinking.
Animal therapy in Southeastern Connecticut
Also, Katie Ziskind, licensed marriage and family therapist and owner of Wisdom Within Counseling, brings in her dogs. To note, Poppy is a puppy and Blondie is an adult dog. Children, teenagers, and adults can receive animal therapy. Additionally, having animals in your therapy room can bring laughter, smiles, and reduce stress hormones. Also, animal therapy with dogs takes pressure off and lowers stress. As well, petting animals creates present moment thinking. In addition, animal therapy in Southeastern Connecticut with Katie Ziskind helps restore joy for life. Plus, petting a dog is a playful and calming sensory experience. To note, Wisdom Within Counseling has done past animal therapy groups with a variety of animals. Additionally, past animal therapy groups included a frog, goats, horses, bunny, snake, chickens, ducks, owls, turtles, and even a cockroach. Now, just Poppy and Blondie, are the animals available for animal therapy.
In what ways are somatic therapies for trauma effective and healing?
A lot of times, after experiencing a trauma from bullying to sexual abuse, people lose their mind body connection. It’s really normal to go into survival mode or fear mode after trauma. So, a teenager who has experienced sexual trauma may begin self harming, cutting, or even having promiscuous behaviors. As well, an adult who has experienced a severe trauma such as loss of a significant family member may have severe mental health issues now. An adult may have alcoholism or drug problems. So, mind-body, holistic, somatic therapy can help a person learn to cope in a positive way.
The negative memories and experiences from the trauma get trapped in the body.
Therefore, somatic experiencing at Wisdom Within Counseling help calm your vagus nerve. With trauma, your nervous system becomes overloaded and overwhelmed. So, at Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut, somatic therapies give you present moment thinking. As well, you can rebuild a sense of safety in the present moment. You can learn about your poly vagal nerve and how to ground yourself. When a panic attack comes your way, you can use polyvagal theory and somatic experiencing to remain in the present moment.
It’s really easy to have an unwanted trauma memory pull the joy away from the present moment.
Instead, somatic therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps you gain positive coping strategies.
More so, you can create a positive, self-care toolbox. To note, you can learn breathing techniques, mindfulness meditation, and even walking therapies. Lastly, doing these in therapy supports an increase in long-term self-care tools.
Painting, using glitter gel pens, or simply sitting outside in the sunshine can all be part of somatic therapy.
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If you have any experiences from the past that keep flooding your mind, somatic therapy for trauma would be very beneficial for you.
Many times, people who have histories of trauma do not get the effective help they need. Simply out, talk counseling does not work for trauma recovery. Instead, talk counseling creates more negativity, stuck stress hormones, and self-destructive behaviors. If you have PTSD, talk only counseling will often leave you feeling frustrated, irritated, or more afraid than when you began. Rather, working with a somatic therapist can help you truly live in the here and now. You gain courage, creativity, empowerment, and emotional outlets.
In Southeastern Connecticut, somatic therapies for trauma reduce stress long term.
After a traumatic event, you may respond to stressors with much more emotional intensity. With PTSD, it’s normal to be afraid to have the bad things happen all over again. However, working with a complex PTSD and trauma specialist can help you develop a positive sense of self-worth.
Your somatic therapist in Southeastern Connecticut can help you feel comfortable and safe every step of the way.
Somatic experiencing and somatic therapies can be a mixture of musical instruments, walking by the beach, and painting. These holistic, mind-body therapies address the symptoms of PTSD like anxiety, fear, and depression that feel relentless. Children, adolescents, and adults can learn how to overcome anxiety, depression, and the relationship issues that result with PTSD through somatic therapies.
Our team at Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut would love to help you through somatic therapy reconnect with your mind and body.
