Trauma and PTSD
Intrusive memories, hypervigilance, avoidance and emotional numbing after a single event or prolonged trauma, addressed with trauma-focused, attachment-based care at a pace you can manage.
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Counseling for childhood trauma and abuse in Vancouver, WA
For adults living with what happened to them as children, and the patterns it left behind.
What it can look like
- Difficulty trusting people, or trusting the wrong ones
- An inner critic that sounds like someone from your past
- Emotional reactions that feel out of proportion to the moment
- Choosing partners or friends who repeat a familiar role
- Feeling responsible for everyone’s moods, as you once had to be
- Gaps in memory, or a childhood you describe as “fine” that wasn’t
- Physical, emotional or sexual abuse, neglect, or growing up with addiction
How we work
Early trauma shapes how the adult brain reads relationships and threat. Attachment-based and trauma-focused work looks at those patterns with compassion rather than blame, builds skills for regulating what comes up, and helps you relate to yourself the way no one taught you to. It is slow, deliberate work, done at your pace.
Approaches
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