What issues will we work on and what will be the outcome?
You will see yourself in a new way, and you will notice positive changes when it comes to your relationship with yourself, with others, and also a difference in the way you think, your mood and behaviour. Therapy will not only result in these positive changes and a newfound insight, but also offer you a set of self-help tools and techniques for your continued practice for navigating your trauma. This will lead to better mental health and wellbeing.
Issues we may work and you will start seeing an improvement in are:
• Identifying how your past continues to impact your life and finding ways to reduce this
• Healthier ways for you to form and maintain friendships and intimate relationships
• Managing your trauma triggers better
• Managing your emotional triggers/emotional flashbacks better
• Developing strategies to deal with your insomnia/sleep issues/nightmares
• Identifying and managing Trauma and Attachment related anxiety, you may be experiencing, that get triggered by a sense of loneliness, separation, rejection, abandonment, unavailability/emotional unavailability
• Finding ways for you to move forward in your parenting journey, whilst managing the aftermath of your trauma
• Coping better when you have flashbacks
• Identifying and reducing any physical sensations you may be experiencing, such as pain or nausea
• Minimising irritability or aggressive behaviour, and channelling them in a healthy way
• Reducing self-destructive behaviours
• Having a better understanding of your addictive behaviours/addiction and replacing them with healthier resources
• Becoming more connected to yourself and your emotions rather than feeling emotionally numb or cut off from them
• Becoming more connected to your body rather than feeling physically numb or detached from your body
• Finding ways to handle dissociation
• Starting to be able to trust people rather than suffering from trust issues
• An ability to create a sense of safety rather than lacking sense of safety
• Making sense of and developing strategies to manage your day-to-day tasks when having difficulty with concentration. This include concentrating on simple or everyday tasks, such as remembering things and making decisions
• Feeling less anxious and more in control when there is a change
• Resource Building where we work on replacing or minimising your use of past survival resources ('fight, flight or freeze' response) with more adaptive resources
• Making sense of, and managing your overwhelming feelings better rather than becoming more triggered and starting going on a down-ward spiral. These could be overwhelming feelings of anger, sadness, guilt or shame
• Becoming more assertive
• Setting and maintaining healthier boundaries
• Developmental Trauma/Attachment issues
• Personality Disorder
• Anxiety Disorder/Phobia
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)/ Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD)