TRAUMA THERAPY WITH BODY AND SOUL IN COLORADO

Move back into your life.

There is a cabin deep inside you that is keeping all the pieces of you safe and warm. It’s time to harness your courage and move back into your body, soul, and life.

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Trauma isn’t just about what happened (which also truly matters).

It’s also about how trauma reorganizes your body and world.

Trauma Specialties

  • Perinatal Trauma (Family Planning, Pregnancy, and Postpartum)

    Trauma that occurs in periods of vulnerability like childhood and in the perinatal period hit different. This is on top of the ways in which the process itself can hand a person fertility complications, miscarriages, complications in birthing, NICU stays, and more. Hormonal, identity, lack of sleep, and other changes create ripe conditions for trauma, postnatal PTSD, perinatal depression, and postpartum anxiety.

  • Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Maltreatment, and Neglect, Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, and Narcissistic Abuse

    Toxic dynamics that could look like parentification, gaslighting, grooming, emotional manipulation, emotional incest, and verbal abuse in your childhood, workplace, or intimate relationships. The scars you carry may be C-PTSD, trauma, people pleasing, perfectionism, low self-worth, and ignoring your needs. (Re)claim the space to stay with and express your voice, feelings, and needs. (See the page on chronic people pleasing to see if it fits.)

  • Chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)

    Ongoing trauma from a single or multiple sources that can leave a person with PTSD symptoms, as well as an impacted sense of self , relationships, and difficulty with emotional regulation. Unlike the ISD, the DSM doesn’t allow practitioners to diagnose complex PTSD. With PTSD, a person is often trying to get back to a baseline, with C-PTSD, a person is often trying to create a completely new baseline.

  • Abandonment Trauma

    It’s born from a family separation or estrangement, immigration, unexpected death, complicated divorce, and more. Your body trembles at the hint of abandonment like lateness, disagreement, or a person’s lack of availability. Often a sense of betrayal and rejection is present. Believe it has nothing to do with you and redefine your self-worth.

  • Unwanted Sexual Attention, Sexual Abuse, and Sexual Assault

    Survivors of sexual trauma often face strong dissociative responses in relationship to their bodies and in connection to others. Cultural ideas about the sexualization of bodies and identities can reinforce messages received by sexual trauma. (Re)claim your body and authentic, consensual intimate connection feels fulfilling.

  • Childhood and Developmental Trauma

    Child logic and the particular vulnerability of a child mean that trauma occurring during this period can have a deep, lasting effect on a person. Sincere care and compassion needs to be given to the inner child and parts of self in order to stop the cycles of maladaptive coping skills. Give yourself what you needed back then and nourish coping skills that provide you peace.

It’s how trauma reorganizes your body and world.

Trauma healing blooms within you, weaving a sense of safety, presence, and belonging.

What’s trauma?

Trauma can set the body on high alert, instinctively searching for safety, and quietly shifts the way we connect with ourselves and the world.

Trauma doesn’t just hit one part of you — it affects your whole system (body and soul too). It shows up in your body, your emotions, your thoughts, and even how you relate to people. It’s kind of a full-body, full-life experience, not just a memory of something bad that happened. Trauma is the reorganization of a person and their view of world on a cognitive, bodily, and spiritual level in response to threat and danger.

The reorganization of a person and their world is meant to be adaptive. It’s crucial for a body-led, automatic hypervigilance to pick up all the signs that there could be a lion around the corner to avoid encountering one again. It’s also crucial to read social cues and moods to keep yourself in community, alive, or cared for by caregivers. It’s a system in the body meant to help you learn to avoid danger and stay safe.

However, it can also leave a person disassociated, disconnected, and afraid. Trauma can create a sense of distance within oneself, making fear linger and making it challenging to fully rest in safe, nurturing spaces or relationships.

Healing trauma:

Full-bodied:

Understand your triggers in-the-moment and learn to stay with flashbacks. Create new relationships to your nervous system and body with Somatic and EMDR therapies.

Automatic:

Practice creating distance before your reaction. Get conscious and make choices that align with your values - not just your fears - through Gestalt and Mindfulness-based therapies.

Connection:

Build a compassionate connection to your parts, soulfulness, and community with Social Justice, IFS and Attachment therapies.