Trauma Therapy

Has A Painful Experience Disrupted Your Life?

Do you suffer from anxiety or depression without knowing why? 

Are you constantly on guard in your relationships and afraid of betrayal?

Do you ever wonder if your struggles are the result of trauma in your life?

Maybe you’ve asked yourself if there’s trauma in your life, but you’re not sure if your experiences “count” as traumatic. Yet the more you reflect on your current mental health issues, the more you wonder if they’re connected to painful past experiences. Perhaps you suffer from sleep disturbances, intrusive thoughts, and feelings of guilt and shame. You might go to great lengths to avoid situations, sights, or sounds that remind you of past hurt. For the first time, you may be considering talking to a trauma specialist. 

Trauma Has A Way Of Keeping Your Brain And Body On High Alert

A traumatic experience is essentially any event—or succession of events—that disrupts your life and makes it hard to feel safe in your own skin. Instead of being open to what life has to offer, your brain and body are constantly on guard against everything that could go wrong. Over time, this can impact your ability to form and maintain healthy relationships. You might struggle with trust issues and fear of betrayal and push people away before they can get too close to you.

The fact that trauma has affected you in this way is understandable—after all, you’ve been hurt in the past and you don’t want to get hurt again. But just as most trauma occurs in the context of relationships, so does healing.

Therapy with Rocky Mountain Counseling Collective is a chance to experience the healing power of connection with a mental health professional who knows how to work through trauma. Our therapists are trained and equipped to help you connect with your resilience and learn real-life skills for reducing trauma’s hold on your life. 

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Therapy Can Help You Overcome Trauma And Take Back Your Power 

It’s not always easy to talk about your traumatic experiences. The beauty of therapy is that it provides a contained and nonjudgmental space where you can freely verbalize and work through your trauma without worrying about how you will be received.

At Rocky Mountain Counseling Collective, you will have access to a trained professional who is informed and equipped to support you as you heal from trauma. They will honor your story, accept you unconditionally, and help you realize that you’re not alone. 

Once an atmosphere of trust and validation has been established, your therapist will give you new skills for managing your trauma symptoms and help you bolster your circle of support. You will learn to build resilience by improving your internal and external resources, allowing you to thrive both now and in the future. The ultimate goal is to help you return to living a full and meaningful life. 

What To Expect During Your Trauma Treatment

The therapeutic process is unique to each client and their needs. Generally, one of the first steps of therapy is educating you about trauma—what it is, why it impacts you, and how it can be managed more effectively. Then the process shifts to revisiting your trauma in a safe and intentional way and reframing what happened so that you see your situation in a more empowering light.

After all, trauma takes away your sense of power—we want to help you get it back. This can be done through an approach called Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on rewriting the narrative around your trauma. Although you can’t “rewrite” the experience itself, you can rewrite your response to it by utilizing new coping skills and reacquainting yourself with your resilience. 

To help you increase your resilience, our practice often uses a wide range of mindfulness skills. The goal of mindfulness is to help you stay grounded in the present instead of getting stuck in the past. Rather than meditating away from difficult feelings or trying to escape them, mindfulness teaches you to sit with your feelings, befriend them, and focus on working through them. It’s not about feeling good, but feeling whole—embracing the full range of your emotions and processing each of them. 

Through our compassionate, trauma-informed approach to therapy, we’re confident that we can help you regain control of your feelings, strengthen your internal and external resources, and develop new ways to feel safe in your body. Trauma does not define you—you can still enjoy a bright and beautiful future despite what’s happened in the past.