Healing Emotional Wounds
It’s that moment you can’t forget…
… in fact, it feels like you’ll never be able to forget it.
The constant teasing and bullying you experienced in your childhood. It was bad enough you had to deal with it from classmates in school – you didn’t think you’d have to face it at home from your own father.
You’re a careful driver with a clean driving record – you’d never let anything distract from your driving. But your toddler lets out a squeal from the backseat and that one quick glance in your rearview mirror causes emotional and physical damage you can’t repair.
Fighting for your country is an honor and oath you took seriously. But the horror of watching comrades die or experiencing near-death moments yourself is catching up to you. Sometimes, there’s even the guilt… “It should’ve been me.”
There are so many different types of scary, distressing, and disturbing events that can shape our lives: losing all your possessions in a destructive storm, a chronic illness diagnosis, physical or sexual abuse, the loss of a loved one…
Could you ever be the same?
People know that something terrifying has happened to you, but they just don’t get it.
They don’t understand the sleepless nights, the constant anxiety and fear, the not wanting to leave the house, or the unease of being around so many people.
Certain sounds, places, voices, or smells transport you back to that scary moment. They shut you down or cause you to panic.
You were heavily punished as a child and are afraid to admit you are wrong, often drinking, smoking, and other addictions, as you continue to want to run from conflict.
Something happened to you as a child – those painful memories left with troubling emotions, questions, and trust issues.
Dealing with the hurt of never being good enough or measuring up has destroyed your self-esteem. You feel angry and resentful because you haven’t seen justice.
You just want relief… you don’t want to feel so damaged or broken.
Find the healing and peace you need…
The feelings are still there. The hurt and wounds are still there.
No amount of trying to bury them is going to bring you the healing and peace you need. But therapy can help.
Through Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT), I can teach you effective techniques with daily emotional dysregulation. TFCBT helps you learn to accurately identify your feelings and how they affect your body. It teaches you how to lower your distress quickly, effectively problem solve, and to be able to talk about emotional wounds when you feel ready.
TFCBT also provides techniques to…
Build rapport with safety: You learn to identify your safe supports, including having a safe space in the therapeutic setting, to verbalize your thoughts and feelings, including the ones you have not shared with others.
Accurately identify feelings: While you may recognize that you are angry or sad, you may not have realized that you are reacting out of fear from not feeling safe and need assistance turning around that fear.
Discover how feelings are expressed vicariously in the body: Our bodies often sound the alarms of distress through the evidence of headaches, stomach issues, shaking, rashes, dry mouth, twitching eye lids, aching neck and shoulders, etc.
Learn how to lower distress: In therapy, you learn simple, yet quick, methods to lower distress, such as quiet time away from others and maybe with a snack.
You’ll also learn healthier coping skills that increase assertiveness, boundaries, and self-esteem.
Get to the root of your pain and discover lasting healing.
No one knows what it’s like to live your life in the pain you’ve experienced.
But you can find healing for your emotional wounds, and you don’t have to do it alone. Through therapy with me, we’ll figure out the key issues so that you can rapidly start putting your life back together.
Call me today, and let’s get you on the road to a more confident and joyful life: (901) 337-0343.