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Complex PTSD
Do you feel, or remember from childhood, that your caregivers inadvertedly treated your emotions as unimportant, not valid, excessive, or of lesser importance than other issues? This is what leads to emotional neglect. Perhaps this sounds familiar:
"You are being dramatic"
"It's not that big a deal"
"That's not how you feel"
"It wasn't that bad"
While growing up, if your emotions go persistedly unnoticed, are not responded to, get devalued, or are even questioned whenever they are expressed, you are unintentionally being sent the message that your feelings don’t matter or that there’s something wrong with the way you feel.
How do we usually to cope with this emotional neglect?
We bury our feelings or we get exceptionally good at transforming an “unacceptable” emotion like anger into an “acceptable” one like anxiety.
What can psychotherapy do for me?
- First and foremost, we learn to recognize your emotions and validate them.
- When then move onto learning to identify your needs and how to healthfully get them met.
- Learn to trust others and set healthy boundaries.
- Build a healthy self-esteem, and more.
PTSD
Painful and traumatic events happen to us, we witness it, fear it could have happened, or we vicariously experence it thorugh our work or loved ones.
Sometimes these distressing situations lead us to experience symptoms such as anxiety, fear, numbness, and hopelessness.
With psychotherapy, we can help you overcome these symptoms and guide you through the process of grief and healing.
Depression and Anxiety
Depression and anxiety are some of the most common and uncomfortable emotions that we can experience.
Adolescents do not always express their distress with words, therefore they need strategies offered in psychotherapy to be able to express them in whichever way feels most safe.
Adults too can struggle to verbalize what the body perceives and can even feel “stuck”.
Collaboratively, we can guide you to recover the joy, experience inner peace, gain the desire to get back to doing the things that used to feel good, gain a healthy perspective on life, and discover determination to move forward and live the life you desired.