Hope Renewed Counseling and EMDR Therapy
Specializing in Traumatic Stress and Chronic Pain Management
When Hope Is Renewed Healing Can Begin
"The Past Affects Our Present Even Without Our Being Aware of It."
Trauma therapy shouldn't be traumatic! If you've been traumatized by therapy, please don't give up. Hope truly can be renewed. There is life after trauma. I am a trauma therapist that believes trauma is not the end and life after trauma can be good again! We offer individual, family, and group therapy for children, adolescents, and adults.
A Bit About Therapy
Considering Therapy?
If you're experiencing issues that have you considering therapy, be assured you're not alone. At some point in our lives, we ALL need a little help getting over a particular issue or sometimes a lot of issues that have just built up over time. Clients I see typically have difficulties in sleep, anxiety, chronic pain management, depression, or traumatic stress. Many of these issues involve underlying trauma and PTSD. Trauma can present itself as either a single incident trauma like an auto accident or a natural disaster, or can be a complex trauma resulting from childhood maltreatment. A complex trauma presentation, often referred to as chronic trauma or childhood trauma, requires a higher level of training and skill, as it often includes dissociating symptoms. Dissociation, can describe several symptoms but can often present as a "zoning out" look. When this happens, parts of the brain necessary to process the trauma shut down and are not available. We often use the term PTSD to describe a set of trauma symptoms resulting in posttraumatic stress disorder. Trauma can affect your functioning, your life, and your relationships even if you do not meet criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).