Trauma-Informed Supportive Counseling
Trauma, as it is addressed in counseling, can be described in two ways: "big T" (meaning you have experienced a traumatic event that is recognized by the general population as traumatic) and "little t" (examples are relational misattunements, emotional neglect or abuse, surviving oppressive systems) that can lead to arriving in adulthood with false negative beliefs about the self (for example, something is wrong with me, I'm unlovable, I can't trust others).
Trauma-informed care does not branch out from the fundamental question "What's wrong with you?", but instead from"What happened to you?". This is an important reframe necessary to cultivate self-compassion, a foundation for deep and profound healing.
A trauma-informed therapist carefully hears your story, listening for impacts and connections from the past, and connecting them to present day stuck points in a way that can create powerful changes in how you experience yourself in your life, and in the world around you.
A trauma informed therapist also provides a powerful educational experience that is tailored to a client's specific life experience to help them identify triggers and coping strategies, while also working to decrease activation around traumatic experiences, in order to have safe and healthy connection to self and others.