Trauma Awareness and Treatment Center

Trauma is any event that causes us to feel helpless and terrified.  Trauma can be physical and/or emotional. Physical traumacauses an injury to the body like a broken bone.  Emotional trauma is an injury to your thoughts and feelings.  Sometimes a physical trauma causes emotional trauma; sometimes it doesn’t.  For example, someone could be attacked and hurt physically but not emotionally.  Or someone could be hurt emotionally but not physically.

       Trauma can come from many sources:

Car accidents                                                          Death of loved ones

Witnessing or experiencing injuries     War experiences

Natural Disasters                                                   Domestic violence

Abuse, rape or assault                                            Gang violence

Illness and disease                                 Any other emotional or physical pain

Trauma can be primary or secondary.

Primary trauma is when the traumatic event happens to you personally, like if you are in an accident.

Secondary trauma is when the traumatic event happens to someone else and it affects you too, like if you see someone in an accident.

Both kinds of traumatic events can cause emotional symptoms.

A symptom is something you can see or feel that tells you something may not be right with the person.  It is the body’s way of telling us something needs… Continue reading →

A Treatment Approach that Fits Many Problems

or A Good Place to Begin with Most Any Problem

Many disorders have much in common.  There is a physical component, and there are emotional, mental, and bio-chemical components.  For some disorders a spiritual component shouldn’t be ignored.  According to research in this field there are differences between how different disorders can be effectively treated, but there are some elements common to most treatments.  In our practical world of trying to help people get on their feet and move forward with their lives, our clinical experience has taught us that motivated clients can often achieve positive outcomes by making use of these common treatment elements.  We will outline those here.  Keep in mind there is a lot of room for individual application and combination of elements to obtain the results you desire.  Experiment!  Life could be looked at as a great experiment, made up of little discoveries day by day, that teach important life lessons for us to learn.  As we change a little here and there, the changes accumulate, and we learn how to master our lives, how to more effectively adapt to the changing circumstances with which we are confronted. … Continue reading →