Trauma Therapy

I am a trauma specialist with years of post-graduate training in this area. Trauma Counselling is a significant area of my work.  Trauma healing that comes from a sensitive nervous-system-and body-focused therapeutic relationship is something I see every day. I offer Trauma Counselling in person in Tralee, Co. Kerry, or online via Zoom.

What is Trauma Therapy?

Trauma therapy is body psychotherapy, working gently with the traumatised nervous system. I as a trauma therapist can calm and help you heal it by giving you skills to increase your resilience, coping and emotional regulation.

What is Trauma?

Trauma is an overwhelm response to a terrible event like an accident, rape or natural disaster or to multiple childhood events.

What Trauma Feels Like?

A person can find themselves reliving the event, feeling disconnected, avoiding people and things, having emotional outbursts, sleeping problems, an inability to concentrate, relationship difficulties, anxiety and more.

Do you Suffer from these Trauma Symptoms?

Flashbacks, social isolation, strained relationships and physical symptoms like headaches or nausea? Syndromes, including chronic fatigue. migraines, chronic pain, irritable bowel syndrome, and fibromyalgia? Anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and depression? Visual symptoms, vertigo, or auto-immune conditions.

Will Trauma Therapy Help?

Absolutely! Body psychotherapy is what you’ll need. Working with your ‘felt sense’, feelings in your body, you’ll access your defensive mechanisms to safely and gradually discharge the built-up and frozen energy of the shock or trauma.

Why Trauma – Informed Care Practice?

There’s a huge build-up of survival energy in a traumatised system. A counsellor must be informed about working gently and precisely to release it in order to keep you safe.

Use of Childhood Trauma Therapy for Adults.

You may not have coped well with a traumatic childhood experience. You  relive it in auto-immune conditions or chronic emotional difficulties. Autoimmune disorders are associated with neglect, early attachment difficulties, as well as molestation and sexual abuse.

It’s essential for your recovery and health that you receive appropriate trauma therapy.

Are PTSD and Trauma the same?

Not quite. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD} is an ongoing anxiety state. It can occur after you’ve seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death. Another person may go through the same trauma and not have enduring symptoms of PTSD.

PTSD can follow a natural disaster such as a flood or fire, or events such as:

• Assault
• Domestic abuse
• Prison stay
• Rape
• Terrorism
• War

Why Trauma Happens?

Immediately after the event, shock and denial are typical. However, you might have longer-term reactions because you shut out the trauma experience. Reactions include unpredictable emotions, flashbacks, dissociation, headaches or nausea. They may endure for decades. This is PTSD.

How Trauma Changes you?

You get hijacked all the time by stress hormones. PTSD basically changes your stress response.

Where Trauma is stored in the body?

It is stored in the autonomic nervous system (ANS) that controls the heart, muscles, hormones…everything

Can Trauma cause Illness?

Yes, it can cause anxiety, depression, physical syndromes like chronic pain, migraines, and fibromyalgia.

How Trauma affects the body?

It overwhelms it. If you were unable to protect yourself in the trauma, your stuck defence mechanisms won’t work now. You’re flooded with stress hormones that you can’t release. You become unwell and always feel unsafe in your body.

When Trauma slips into addiction?

You’ve made a valiant attempt to regulate difficult emotions. Stress hormones are making life a misery. You use substances or other addictions to lower the stress load in the body. Instead, they exacerbate the problem.

How Trauma Affects Relationships.

You avoid others or are aggressive towards others. You become isolated.

Will Trauma go away?

Yes. With the right trauma therapy, you can break free from trauma. You can heal from trauma.

How I work with Trauma?

I use a combination of Somatic Experiencing (SE) and Transforming Touch therapies.

This involves teaching you the skills to increase resilience and regulation. I’ll help you increase your ability to feel safe in the presence of others. The skills you’ll learn are focused on increasing body awareness and on slowing in order to regulate difficult emotions.

This groundbreaking trauma therapy will stop you from reliving your trauma. Working gently with your nervous system, you’ll take back control.