Have you experienced a life threatening or life altering traumatic event?    Trauma is a response to many types of overwhelming events in our lives.    It can cause disruptions and changes to our thinking and coping that can keep us from sleeping, eating and interfere with living our daily life well.

PTSD can occur from:

• Directly experiencing a traumatic event
• Witnessing in person, a traumatic event that happened to others
• You learned how someone close to you experienced or was threatened by a traumatic event
• You are repeatedly exposed to graphic details of traumatic events  (for example: if you are a first responder to the scene of numerous traumatic events)

Therapy for PTSD includes:

• Developing coping and self calming skills to help address your most stressful physical and emotional symptoms
• Helping you think in better more functional ways about yourself, others and the world around you — this helps defuse the trauma’s impact on your life
• Treating other problems often related to traumatic experiences, such as worry, anxiety, depression, sleeplessness, or the misuse of alcohol, sex or drugs

The type of therapy I use in helping my client’s deal with trauma is called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) that helps people cope with and change the negative patterns of thinking that keep them stuck after a trauma.   I also use Cognitive Processing Therapy that helps clients safely and effectively face frightening and even incapacitaing trauma memories and situations; allowing them to learn how to cope with them more effectively