Trauma Therapy

in NJ, NY and Psypact States

EMDR & Somatic Experiencing

You may be feeling

  • Intense negative emotions, and anxiety that won’t go away. 

  • Sudden extreme anger.

  • Intrusive memories of a traumatic event or events.

  • Numbness, dissociation

  • Difficulty trusting other people or avoiding people, places, and situations because of fear.

You may have...

  • Anger that comes out of nowhere and can make your relationships shatter.

  • Numbness and disconnection from yourself

  • Guilt about the trauma

  • Difficulty trusting people

  • Vivid oversize memories of the trauma

  • Anxiety and just never feeling safe

and it just keeps getting worse

You want to be able to live your life without anxiety or panic attacks. 

  • You want your life to get bigger, not smaller and more restricted. 

  • You want to feel safe in your world. 

  • You want to be able to sleep soundly without nightmares. 

  • Sometimes you feel little or nothing – just numb and that just makes you feel distant from yourself and unable to connect to others. 

  • Sometimes the trauma has destroyed your sense of trust in people and you are wary of new relationships. 

  • There might be few places or situations where you feel safe, and your life may get smaller and smaller because of that. 

  • After trauma, sometimes your brain reacts to everyday situations as if they are very dangerous.

  • Trauma symptoms appear when trauma occurs and instead of the memory being processed like a regular memory, it gets stored as a ‘horrific experience’.

  • Because memory is not static, when you bring up the memory and think about it, and you then store it again, you change the memory each time.

  • For regular memories, the memory gets milder, brings up less emotion, and gets relegated to the past.

  • For trauma memories, the memory gets stronger and more upsetting, brings up more emotions, and then gets stored with those stronger emotions.

  • So the trauma gets more upsetting over time and your symptoms will likely get worse without treatment

How did these symptoms get so bad?

How can we help?

Trauma therapy can help you come to terms with what happened to you and helps you live your life with reduced symptoms,  improve relationships, and engender a deeper understanding of your experience. 

We need to get those memories unstuck from the strong emotions they are holding onto and put the trauma firmly in the past. 

We do that with EMDR and Somatic Experiencing therapies. 

  • The memory gets milder, the emotions less intense, and the trauma memory will lose its power to cause symptoms.

  • Now you can enjoy each day without the looming stress or fear.

  • You can actually wake up optimistic looking forward to each day while being able to enjoy each moment for what it is, and the change is incredible.

  • But we also go one step further and give you the tools so that you consistently return back to a state of calm, and don’t have to worry about “reentering the anxiety”.

We can help you through this.

Individual therapy is provided for clients who have been through a trauma and may be experiencing difficulties such as nightmares, flashbacks, anger, and having difficulty trusting other the people. Trauma therapy can help you come to terms with what happened to you and helps you live your life with reduced symptoms,  improve relationships, and engender a deeper understanding of your experience.  We use both the DBT Prolonged Exposure Technique, EMDR and somatic experiencing. To learn more about EMDR, view this background video about EMDR.

NOTE:  This practice is an official “Give-An-Hour” practice, where an hour a week is donated at no charge to service members and their families. To find about more about this wonderful program, please visit the Give-An-Hour website.