Working With A Trauma Therapist
If you have been looking for a trauma therapist in California, you may be feeling overwhelmed by all the options, credentials and types of therapy. Let’s learn more about what a trauma therapist can do for you and how it can help you on your parenting journey.
How Can A Trauma Therapist
Help New Parents?
Many parents find themselves benefitting from working with a trauma therapist because there are many aspects of parenting that can trigger those old trauma feelings.
For example, when your children go through experiences even vaguely similar to yours, you can be reacting from a place of trauma which may not accurately reflect the situation.
You may experience flashbacks, nightmares, intense anger or fear. Or you may be exhibiting hypervigilance with your children and you can’t figure out why you feel so overprotective. You don’t want to smother them but you’re feeling so afraid. As a result, you and your children may be missing out on valuable experiences.
Working with a childhood trauma therapist can help you unpack those feelings and separate them from your parenting. While many people are often scared at first when they start working with a trauma therapist, they typically find therapy to be a safe place to express their feelings and learn tools to manage them.
I work with clients from all over California, from Los Angeles to San Jose, on issues related to trauma. I’ve learned that traumas are painful experiences that shape our lives and impact our sense of self, our ability to love and our ability to trust ourselves and others. Trauma makes us feel vulnerable, and so does raising a child.
Working with a trauma therapist may not completely relieve you of the pain you feel, but it can help ensure that you do not pass this pain onto your own children.
If you’ve been looking for a trauma therapist near you to help you parent without the baggage of trauma, I can help. You can have more confidence in yourself, trust your children and others more, feel more calm in the face of parenting challenges and give your kids the space to be kids without fear of something terrible happening.
What Can A Trauma Therapist Do For You?
How do I Start Working With A
Trauma Therapist?
How do you get started working with a childhood trauma therapist? I am a psychologist in the Bay Area, so for those of you in San Jose or the Bay Area, you have the option of coming to my office or seeing me virtually. For individuals throughout the state of California, I am available online for therapy. Contact me today to schedule a free 15 minute phone consultation to get started!
