Healing Trauma
Turning Point Psychotherapy offers trauma counseling and practical guidance that teaches clients to desensitize flashbacks and distressing images of the event, resolve nightmares and repair the sense of detachment from others that survivors commonly experience.
It may be difficult to go through the day without intrusive, distressing thoughts or images that bring back the traumatic experience. Horrible dreams and nightmares may come often and represent a repression of difficult thoughts, newly held irrational beliefs and uncomfortable feelings. A sense of detachment from others factors into a lack of interest and participation in otherwise enjoyable activities while irritability, poor concentration, substance abuse and suicidal thoughts may be factors. Survivors often find themselves engaged in patterns of interpersonal conflict, especially in intimate relationships. The longer treatment is postponed for these problems, the more difficult it becomes to recover. The mental and behavioral health issues that survivors may develop are likely to worsen over time without counseling services intervention.
Turning Point Psychotherapy can help• Return a client to the level of functioning met in relationships, daily routines, work, school, etc. before the event occurred• Desensitize reactions to triggers • Integrate repressed thoughts, feelings and beliefs • Teach a client to construct and own a new sense of safety • Reduce the occurrence and intensity of dreams and nightmares • Improve interpersonal relations • Revitalize interest in and energy for important daily activities • Create the ability to recall the event without becoming overwhelmed with negative emotions, or losing clarity of thought • Replace escape and denial with coping skills that promote healing, acceptance of past events and purposeful living
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