Trauma Therapy In Ontario
Stressful or frightening events can cause trauma in a person, meaning that you have a lasting or recurring emotional response to a past traumatic event. Everyone experiences events differently. A person doesn’t have to be a soldier or a survivor of war to be impacted by traumatic events. When traumatic events happen in childhood, often they have a lasting impact. As an adult or during childhood, if you’ve experienced or witnessed violence, sudden loss, a severe accident, or even an extended ICU visit, and you were not able to get support to process that event, you may become traumatized from the experience.
More severe forms of trauma are post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (complex PTSD), and prolonged childhood trauma (when a child is exposed to abuse, witnesses harm to someone else, or lives in a traumatic environment).
If You Have Unresolved Trauma, May Find Yourself Experiencing The Following Symptoms:
- Being easily startled or frightened.
- Always being on guard for danger.
- Having self-destructive behavior, such as drinking too much or engaging in high risk behaviours like driving fast, or engaging in unprotected sex.
- Trouble sleeping, nightmares or concentrating.
- Irritability, anger outbursts or aggressive behavior.
- Overwhelming guilt or shame.
You do not have to live with trauma, there is hope, you can start your healing journey.
Therapy for Trauma and PTSD Online and in Cobourg and Burlington, Ontario
There is good news! There is a lot you can do to heal from trauma. Specific trauma therapies can reduce the symptoms that intrude on your life.
At Integra Skills Counselling, our therapists are trauma-informed and have specific training to support people who want to overcome trauma. Your therapist will also look at what contributes to your current experience with trauma, past and present, and this will give you help to process that trauma, until it simply becomes a part of your history, not something that will hold you back in the future.
Interested in booking a consultation to see if trauma therapy is the right choice for you?
Contact us through the form below, or call/email us at 289-252-2504 admin@integraskillscounselling.com to set up an appointment.
Information on Trauma
Want to learn more about trauma?
Here are links to some of the most prominent mental health resources:
Canadian Centre for Mental Health – Trauma, Information and Resources
https://www.anishinabek.ca/trauma/ – Trauma in the Indigenous Culture
