Trauma treatment is multi-faceted

Treating treatment providers who have experienced their own trauma during their professional careers leaves the following to be reconciled: their professional identities, their clinical approach, and their capacity to sit with the intolerable in themselves and/or their clients. In your treatment we will address these issues head on as we attempt to make sense of the insensible.

The lives of treatment providers are not above the shattering that trauma can leave behind so it’s important that we determine what has been shattered. Identifying the shattering is crucially important because unresolved trauma impacts relationships, especially our relationships with our children and our patients. This will inform our treatment strategy. It does not mean that we necessarily have to go back and replay every aspect of the trauma as much as address its impact on your sense of self.

The impact on one’s self is crucial because it encapsulates traumatic experiences that are also racial, ancestral or intergenerational. Therefore, I also strive to work with BIPOC treatment providers who carry the weight of this trauma in their bodies as well. Because these experiences can be visceral, my treatment approach is multi-faceted, including body-centered techniques.