“Trauma” can be an intimidating word… and what does “trauma” even mean?

​For some, trauma may tie back to a particular event that changed everything. It likely ruptured your feelings of safety and control and now, you view your life through the lenses of “before” and “after.”
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For others, though, trauma is less about an event and more about emotions and experiences, like feeling perpetually stuck, overwhelmed, or unable to cope. This kind of trauma can be difficult to self-diagnose as you may undermine our own experience because you don’t think it is as “big” or as “bad” as others’ you've read about or watched on TV.

​In fact, we find that many of our clients who present with trauma have previously received mental health care for other areas like addiction, eating disorders, depression, or anxiety, not realizing that those are often symptoms of unprocessed trauma.