Trauma Treatment

Trauma Therapy Roseville: Light Within Counseling

Trauma Treatment

Trauma can disrupt one’s sense of safety, trust, and overall functioning, leading to a range of mental health concerns, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression. Emotional trauma, in particular, can deeply affect an individual’s emotional well-being, making it crucial to address through supportive therapy environments and specialized treatment approaches.

What is Trauma?

Trauma is a complex and multifaceted experience that can have a profound impact on an individual’s mental, emotional, and physical well-being. It can result from a single event or prolonged exposure to distressing experiences, such as physical or emotional abuse, neglect, accidents, natural disasters, or combat. Trauma can disrupt one’s sense of safety, trust, and overall functioning, leading to a range of mental health concerns, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression. Understanding the nature of trauma is the first step in addressing its effects and beginning the healing journey.

Physical and Emotional Signs of Trauma

Trauma can manifest in various physical and emotional signs, including:

  • Physical sensations such as tremors, shaking, or trembling
  • Numbness, tingling, or a feeling of heaviness in the body
  • Intrusive thoughts, nightmares, and flashbacks
  • Hypervigilance and exaggerated startle response
  • Avoidance of triggers or reminders of the traumatic event
  • Emotional distress, including anxiety, depression, and mood swings
  • Difficulty sleeping or concentrating
  • Physical symptoms such as headaches, stomach problems, or chronic pain

Recognizing these signs is crucial in understanding the impact of trauma on your life. These symptoms can be overwhelming, but with the right support and trauma therapy, you can learn to manage and alleviate them.

 

Are you feeling overwhelmed by past traumas?

Do intrusive thoughts or flashbacks disrupt your day, leaving you feeling unsettled or unsafe?
Is it difficult to trust others or form meaningful relationships because of past trauma?
Do you often find yourself hyper-vigilant, as if always on guard against potential threats?

Trauma is not just a bad experience; it’s a profound shock to your system that can linger long after the event has passed. It often leaves a lasting imprint, affecting how you feel, think, and interact with the world. In our modern lives, where traumatic events can range from acute incidents to prolonged exposure to stress, trauma can manifest as a persistent, intrusive presence, continually triggering your fight or flight response at unexpected times.

This heightened state of alertness can distort your perception of reality, leading to a life where you feel perpetually unsafe and on edge. Trauma is more common than many realize, affecting individuals of all ages and from all walks of life. It can severely impact your ability to function, enjoy life, maintain relationships, and achieve personal goals.

Recognizing that living with trauma is not a sign of weakness is crucial. With the right therapeutic support, those affected by trauma can find effective ways to heal and regain control of their lives. Based in Roseville, CA, our therapists at Light Within Counseling specialize in helping individuals from teens to adults overcome the challenges of trauma.

With a compassionate approach and a safe, supportive therapeutic environment, we focus on providing you with the tools and strategies needed to process and manage trauma. Whether you’re dealing with the effects of a single traumatic event or the complexities of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), our therapy sessions are customized to meet your specific needs and foster recovery.

 

 

Navigating Trauma: Trauma Therapy, Roseville CA

Trauma can strike at any point in life, manifesting as deep emotional scars that disrupt daily functioning and reduce quality of life. Understanding the pervasive impact of trauma, we specialize in providing personalized trauma therapy for individuals across all age groups, tailored to address each client’s unique experiences and needs.

We are skilled in uncovering the underlying causes of trauma and implementing effective treatment modalities. Utilizing a blend of trauma focused  cognitive behavioral therapy, brainspotting, EMDR, Prolonged Exposure and other proven therapeutic strategies, we help our clients process their experiences and regain a sense of control and peace. Additionally, we incorporate cognitive processing therapy, a structured approach that uses evidence-based techniques to help clients effectively process traumatic memories and treat PTSD.

Services Customized to Your Healing Journey:

  • Personalized Therapy Sessions: Customized to address the specific effects of trauma and facilitate personal healing.
  • Flexible Scheduling: Offering both in-person and online sessions to fit your lifestyle and ensure accessibility.
  • Family Support: Providing education and guidance to families on how best to support their loved ones through recovery.

In our trauma therapy in Roseville, you will find a supportive and safe environment to explore your emotions and begin the healing process. Physical trauma, such as Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI), can complicate the emotional healing process, highlighting the interconnectedness of physical and emotional trauma. Our therapeutic approach is designed to empower you with resilience-building tools, improve your ability to manage stressors, and enhance your overall psychological strength. We offer in person therapy in Roseville or virtually throughout CA.

Benefits of Trauma Therapy

Trauma therapy offers numerous benefits, including:

  • Processing and understanding traumatic experiences
  • Developing coping skills and techniques to manage distress
  • Improving emotional regulation and self-acceptance
  • Enhancing resilience and post-traumatic growth
  • Reducing symptoms of PTSD, anxiety, depression and insomnia 
  • Improving relationships and social connections
  • Increasing sense of safety and well-being
  • Empowering individuals to take control of their healing journey

Engaging in trauma therapy can be a transformative experience, helping you to rebuild your life and move forward with greater confidence and peace.

Begin Your Path to Recovery Today:

Whether you’re navigating the aftermath of a traumatic event, the long-term effects of chronic trauma, or the daily challenges that stem from past experiences, we are here to provide support. With a compassionate and respectful approach, we ensure that each client feels valued and understood.

How Trauma Treatment Works

Trauma treatment typically involves a combination of talk therapy, medication, and lifestyle changes. Evidence-based therapies, such as trauma focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Brainspotting, Prolonged Exposure (PE) and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), are commonly used to treat trauma. These therapies help individuals:

  • Process and integrate traumatic memories
  • Develop coping skills and techniques to manage distress
  • Improve emotional regulation and self-acceptance
  • Enhance resilience and post-traumatic growth
  • Reduce symptoms of PTSD, anxiety, and depression

It’s worth noting that trauma treatment is a highly individualized process, and what works for one person may not work for another. A licensed therapist will work with the individual to develop a personalized treatment plan that addresses their unique needs and goals.

Trauma Treatment Approaches

 

Brainspotting

Brainspotting is an innovative psychotherapeutic method that aims to access and address unresolved trauma, deep-seated emotions, and physical pain through direct stimulation of the brain’s autonomic and limbic systems. Developed from the principles of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), this technique is based on the discovery that specific eye positions, called “brainspots,” can act as triggers to access traumatic memories and emotional experiences that are typically out of reach of the conscious mind.

 

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based approach designed to help individuals, particularly children and adolescents, process and heal from traumatic experiences. It combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with trauma-sensitive interventions to help clients recognize and change negative thought patterns related to their trauma. By addressing these cognitive distortions, TF-CBT reduces PTSD symptoms, improves emotional regulation, and fosters resilience.

 

Integrative Approach

We incorporate different therapeutic theories and techniques to help heal trauma. This approach allows us to use a range of strategies that best suit the unique needs of the individual, combining elements from various theoretical frameworks to create a personalized treatment plan. Integrative trauma therapy is particularly valuable in treating complex issues like trauma, as it provides the flexibility to address the multifaceted nature of an individual’s needs.

Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE)

A structured, evidence-based treatment for PTSD that helps individuals confront trauma-related memories, thoughts, and situations in a gradual and controlled manner. By repeatedly facing these fears instead of avoiding them, clients learn that the distress they feel diminishes over time, reducing PTSD symptoms.

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

A cognitive-behavioral approach that helps individuals challenge and modify unhelpful beliefs related to their trauma. CPT focuses on identifying distorted thinking patterns, such as self-blame or guilt, and restructuring them to promote healthier, more balanced perspectives.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

A structured therapy that uses bilateral stimulation (such as guided eye movements) to help individuals reprocess distressing memories. EMDR allows the brain to integrate traumatic experiences in a less distressing way, reducing emotional intensity and PTSD symptoms.

Trauma Therapy at Light Within Therapy

At Light Within, we specializes in trauma-focused therapy that acknowledges the profound effects trauma has on an individual’s life. We use evidence-based approaches tailored to your personal needs, which may include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Brainspotting and more, aimed at processing trauma safely and effectively. Kelsey takes an integrative approach to therapy, using the modalities that would work best for you personally.

It’s normal to feel apprehensive about starting therapy, especially when it involves revisiting painful experiences. Kelsey prioritizes creating a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your feelings at your own pace, without fear of judgment.

Book Your First Session Now

If you feel ready to tackle the effects of trauma and pursue healing, Light Within invites you to begin with a free, 15-minute consultation to find the best approach for you. We offer both in-person trauma therapy sessions in Roseville, CA and virtual therapy sessions across California.

    Light Within Counseling

    [email protected]

    916-990-1214

    970 Reserve Dr., Roseville, CA, 95678