Trauma Recovery

The past makes it hard to move forward.

You walk through the park at sunset beneath an orange and pink sky. It’s a beautiful evening, but beauty feels like a distant memory. Strolling along the familiar path, you feel a tightness in your chest. It’s been years, but the echoes of the past still hang around you.

Passing the bench where you used to sit, your heart races as you recall when everything suddenly changed. The sounds of the park – chirping birds, children laughing – all become muffled like you’re underwater. A wave of anxiety washes over you, and your hands start to shake. You close your eyes, willing yourself to breathe deeply, smelling the grass, fallen leaves, and the faint scent of wood smoke, but each inhale reminds you of your helplessness.

“What if I had done something differently?” you ask, and you remember being young – arms wide, laughing, carefree – longing to experience that innocence again. You’re tired of pretending everything is okay. You want to scream so someone knows you’re not OK, that you’re struggling with something that feels insurmountable.

You’ve put a lot of effort toward improving your well-being – developing coping skills, practicing self-care, deepening your understanding of mental health – but you still find yourself trapped in persistent, unresolvable patterns.

It is time to find a solution.

When long-standing issues remain unresolved, trauma-informed psychodynamic psychotherapy can offer a path forward.

This therapeutic approach can help uncover your life’s deeper narrative and enhance your connection to your emotional experience.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy explores unconscious thoughts and feelings that influence behaviors and perspectives. It examines the impact of past and present relationships on one’s sense of self and worldly experience, using the therapy relationship as a tool to discover and shift patterns in all areas of life.

Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to determine if this might fit you well.