Trauma Therapy
Understanding Your Story – Beyond “What’s Wrong” to “What Happened”
Difficult experiences can leave lasting impressions on how we think, feel and respond to the world around us.
Trauma therapy focuses on understanding how past experiences continue to shape present reactions. Rather than seeing these responses as personal flaws, therapy recognises them as understandable survival responses to overwhelming situations.
I offer trauma-informed therapy both in person in Wiltshire and online across the UK.
How Trauma Therapy Can Help
When difficult experiences remain unresolved, the nervous system can stay on high alert, even long after the original situation has passed. This can show up in everyday life as:
- feeling constantly on edge or anxious
- overthinking or difficulty relaxing
- emotional shutdown or disconnection
- patterns of people-pleasing or avoidance
- relationship difficulties or trust issues
Trauma therapy helps make sense of these responses. By understanding how your mind and body adapted to earlier experiences, we can begin to develop new ways of responding that feel calmer and more supportive.
What Working With Trauma Therapy Looks Like
Understanding Your Experiences
We begin by exploring how past experiences may be influencing your present reactions. This helps bring clarity to patterns that may previously have felt confusing or overwhelming.
Supporting Nervous System Regulation
Trauma therapy focuses on helping the nervous system move out of survival mode. Developing grounding and regulation skills creates the stability needed for deeper therapeutic work.
Processing and Moving Forward
As therapy progresses, difficult memories and emotions can be explored in a safe and manageable way. Over time this often allows reactions to soften and new perspectives to develop.
Online and Face-to-Face Therapy
I offer in-person trauma therapy in Wiltshire two days per week, alongside online sessions for adolescents and adults across the UK.
Online sessions are delivered in line with professional guidelines, offering a safe, confidential, and flexible space to process difficult experiences and support your recovery.
Understanding Trauma Responses
When people experience overwhelming situations, the mind and body naturally adapt to survive. These adaptations can be helpful at the time, but they may continue long after the original danger has passed.
Trauma therapy focuses on recognising these responses with compassion rather than judgement.
Nervous System Survival
Trauma can cause the nervous system to remain alert to potential threats. This may show up as anxiety, tension or a constant sense of needing to stay prepared.
Emotional Disconnection
Distancing from emotions or memories connected to difficult experiences, can seem protective, but often leads to feeling detached.
Relationship Patterns
Trauma can also shape how people relate to others. Trust, boundaries and emotional closeness may feel complicated when past experiences have affected a safety.
Approaches Used in Trauma Therapy
EMDR Therapy
EMDR helps the brain process traumatic memories so they no longer carry the same emotional intensity. It is one of the most researched approaches for trauma treatment.
Internal Family Systems
IFS explores the different “parts” within us that developed to cope with difficult experiences. Understanding these parts can bring greater self-compassion and emotional balance.
Schema Therapy
Schema Therapy focuses on identifying long-standing patterns that developed earlier in life and reshaping them so they no longer limit how you see yourself or others. Often used with other approaches.
Is Trauma Therapy Right for You?
If you feel that past experiences continue to affect how you think, feel, or relate to others, trauma-focused therapy may help bring clarity and relief.
The process always begins with a careful conversation about your experiences and what support might feel most helpful. From there, we can decide together whether trauma therapy is the right approach for you.
Begin Understanding Your Story
If you would like to explore how trauma therapy may help you move forward with greater calm and confidence, you are welcome to arrange a consultation.
Together we can consider what support would be most helpful for your situation.