Trauma Therapy Toronto: Reclaim Your Life
Are you a survivor of abuse who struggles with intrusive thoughts, flashbacks and agitation?
You may feel like your history of trauma has taken over every aspect of your life, leaving you struggling with overwhelming thoughts, strained relationships, and a constant sense of discomfort.
The coping mechanisms that once helped you survive may now be causing more harm than good, leading to self-destructive behaviours, failed relationships, and physical symptoms like Fibromyalgia or Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
You might find it difficult to connect with others, especially in intimate relationships, where the pain of the past resurfaces, making it hard to feel safe or understood.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. You deserve to heal and find new, healthier ways to cope, allowing you to reclaim your life and relationships.
DID YOU KNOW:
Your brain actually structurally changes when you learn new skills and ways of being. Therapy can be part of that restructuring and getting a better life.
Comprehensive Trauma Therapy
Our team offers healing and support for people who have had past experiences of sexual, physical and/or psychological/emotional abuse/assault. This includes survivors of incest and complex trauma within the family.
Complex trauma refers to multiple perpetrators and many years of having learned to survive in dysfunctional conditions. Incest does not happen in happy families, and it necessarily involves secrecy and unsaid “rules”. This results in confusing, intense feelings that are hard to navigate and figure out. It also can lead to strange bodily or physical sensations related to a history of this nature.
Our feelings can be conflicting, and we sometimes engage in self-destructive behaviours to numb and distract ourselves.
This can make relating to others in our adult lives seemingly impossible. Connecting can seem scary when already intense feelings become stronger.
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You may have had some experiences, including:
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Intense nightmares
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Waking flashbacks where you remember a scene of abuse so intensely it seems it is happening now
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Having a memory that plays like a movie with no feelings attached or feeling numb
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Feelings of anxiety and depression, sometimes feeling incessant and overwhelming
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Sex and relationships feel strange and hard to navigate, in which you either feel too much or not enough
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Feelings of extreme agitation
What trauma therapy can look like:
Build our bond so you can trust the process and know your therapist will be there. Create safe spaces both together in session and within your life and spirit that you can use to self-soothe.
Grounding techniques are taught and individualized to work in your life and help you when you are dissociating, feeling agitated etc.
Create a care plan to support you in a healthy life and know who to turn to in times of stress.
Healing through emotion-coaching, unpacking traumatic memories, Art and Sandtray Therapy, Visualizations, Meditation etc.
Learn boundaries and other aspects of healthy relationships through Skill Building as well as dynamic/interpersonal techniques within our therapeutic relationship.
Integration to ensure all of this new healing, information and ways of being become a regular part of your life.
We are here to support you.
There are many ways of healing and we can discuss them and make sure these are a part of your journey as well. You can heal from trauma and get the intimacy and resilient mental health you crave.