Your Family History

Successful therapy begins with taking a thorough life history including:

• Explore your childhood including significant losses, attachment history, and experiences of abuse or neglect

• Identify strengths and resources from your childhood and family.

• Look at significant events across generations that can lead to the transgenerational transmission of trauma

• Explore how awareness of your family legacy can facilitate resilience

Trauma Treatment

Resilience informed therapy takes into account the physiological and neurobiological underpinnings of post trauma reactions and uses this information to navigate through treatment.

• Awareness of your physiological response to trauma helps you make informed choices about your health care.

• Explore polyvagal theory and PTSD

• Learn more about the neurobiology of trauma

• Reprocess traumatic events

Physical Health

Resilience informed therapy attends to the impact of unresolved PTSD on physical health.

• Look at the connection between trauma and your health

• Explore how Natural Vagus Nerve Stimulation can help.

• Integrate Therapeutic Yoga and mindfulness into treatment

Support Systems

As human beings we cannot fully be understood outside of the context of our relationships, social situations, and cultural experiences . Therefore, resilience informed therapy takes a close look at the presence or lack of current support systems and emphasizes reducing isolation.

• Look at cultural elements of trauma including experiences of discrimination and oppression

Realize your Potential

 

Processing disturbing or traumatic life events can facilitate growth and a greater sense of purpose, helping you fulfill your potential.

• Focus on Growing Positive Experiences in your Life

• Facilitate Post Traumatic Growth

Resilience Informed Therapy for Complex-PTSD

You can heal whether you are in recovery from a single traumatic event or from ongoing childhood abuse or neglect. Remember:

You are not broken, in need of fixing. Rather, you are deeply hurt, in need of care.