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Trauma Therapy in Gainesville, Florida
Wolcott Counseling & Wellness specializes in trauma therapy. Our therapists are trained in evidence-based trauma therapy modalities for PTSD and CPTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). We are compassionate, skilled, and devoted to helping you find the path to healing and recovery that works best for you.
Trauma expert Dr. Bessel van der Kolk describes trauma as “an event that overwhelms the central nervous system, altering the way we process and recall memories.” Trauma lives in the body long after the traumatic event. Therapy can help clients understand, recover and heal so that the trauma they’ve experienced stops ruling their lives.
You may be struggling with unresolved trauma if you:
Often feel numb, guilty, and irritable
Feel like life is like a movie or not real
Have confusing relationships or poor boundaries
Startle easily
Have intrusive memories, flashbacks, night terrors, or unwanted physical sensations
Find yourself avoiding people, places or reminders of a traumatic event
Trauma is common, and often misunderstood. Trauma survivors minimize (and also compare) trauma experiences. This can help you stay connected and move forward – which is great…up to a point. But over time, survival strategies outlive their usefulness and start to interfere with the ability to experience healthy relationships, intimacy, groundedness and self-actualization.
Typical traumatic experiences include car accidents, sexual assaults, natural disasters, loss of a loved one, experiencing or witnessing a crime, childhood abuse, losing your independence through job loss or physical illness, being stalked, doxed or harassed.
If you are looking for more healthy connection, deeper intimacy, enhanced self-knowledge, and more ability to live fully in the present, our trauma-informed counselors can help you.
How We Work With You
Wolcott Counseling & Wellness therapists use several evidence-based modalities to help clients heal and recover from trauma. Some of these include Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Sensorimotor Therapy, Group Therapy, and Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (ERP).
Healing from trauma is a serious endeavor, and you deserve to have highly trained, understanding and compassionate therapists working with you. For more information on the modalities that our Wolcott Counseling & Wellness therapists are trained in, please see the following sites: