Trauma Therapy in Alexandria, LA and Natchitoches, LA
Helping individuals find hope and healing after a traumatic experience.
When you’ve experienced something unimaginable, it can be hard to believe you will ever feel like yourself again.
Most people who seek trauma therapy feel scared, depressed, and/or on edge, constantly reliving the traumatic event the experienced. Perhaps you can relate. Maybe you’ve had intrusive, unwanted thoughts and avoided situations or people that trigger unsettling memories about what happened.
Stuck in feelings of overwhelm or numbness, you may feel like your past or a specific traumatic experience is holding you back.
Do you feel anger, shock, confusion, anxiety, fear, guilt?
Does any of this sound familar to you?
- * You experience unwanted thoughts or nightmares about the event.
- * You avoid activities or places that trigger memories of the event.
- * You experience overwhelming fear or emotional numbness.
- * You have noticed changes in your sleep or eating patterns.
- * You are easily startled or feel tired and exhausted all the time.
- * You are reactive, becoming easily irritated or emotional.
If this sounds like something you are experiencing, I want you to know that even though you may feel alone there are many people in your circumstances that need support considering all that has happened.
After a traumatic event or experience, it can be hard to know where to turn. Just know you don’t have to stay stuck in what happened. You deserve to be able to move forward.
Trauma Therapy Can Help You Get Your Life Back
It’s possible to feel better. Imagine a life where you could…
- * Be able to handle the reality of the traumatic event
- * Eliminate the symptoms you’ve experienced as result of the trauma
- * Change your focus from the past to the present
- * Regain your “personal power”
- * Be able to live again
Step Back And Focus On Healing
To move forward towards healing, we can help you find a path forward to reduce or eliminate symptoms of trauma.
If you are uncertain of how trauma therapy could help you, that’s okay to feel that way.
Just know trauma therapy works. We’ve seen individuals who’ve wondered if they were ever going to be able to feel like themselves again after a trauma be able to feel good about life again. Seeking help to heal may not be an easy process, but you can learn ways to move forward and live fully again.
Healing starts when you take the first step to bravely confront the hurt and pain of the past to find new meaning and rediscover who you are despite what has happened to you.
If you reside in Louisiana, our counselors and trauma specialists are here to help.
How Trauma Therapy Works
Trauma therapy consists of one-on-one sessions that help you work through your concerns. In addition to listening, your counselor will use an evidenced-based approach such as Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), or Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) to help you learn ways to heal from trauma. Here’s a few things you can expect:
- 1. First, your counselor will provide a safe, accepting space so that you will feel comfortable sharing your experience.
- 2. Through hearing your story, your counselor will help you begin to put words and feelings to your memories as you are able.
- 3. We will explore the beliefs about yourself, feelings, sensations, and images that represent the traumatic event.
- 4. We will also work to increase awareness around your current struggles and how they are related to the trauma.
- 5. Together, we will find ways to develop new beliefs and discover new tools that will support you in moving through the traumatic experience.
- 6. Over the course of your sessions, you will begin to reconnect to yourself and others to be able to bravely move forward with a renewed sense of hope for the future
Take the Next Step
Ready to start feeling better? If you feel like you are going round in circles, constantly reliving a traumatic experience, trauma therapy can help.
If you are considering counseling for traumatic stress and live in the state of Louisiana, we can help. Healing from a traumatic event is possible. You can find meaning and peace again. When you call, you can share what’s going on and we can discuss with you how we can help.
Call us to schedule your first appointment today at 318-266-7021 or go online at https://beinspiredcc.clientsecure.me/.
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Other Therapy Services with Be Inspired Counseling
Trauma therapy isn’t the only service provided at our Louisiana therapy practice. We also offer depression therapy, grief counseling, and anxiety treatment. In addition, we also offer couples counseling, counseling for college students, and teen counseling. We can help you all over the state with online therapy in Louisiana or provide therapy in Natchitoches, LA, or counseling in Alexandria, LA. Feel free to visit our consulting services, FAQ, or blog pages for more helpful info!