Complex Trauma Therapy
What Therapy Is Best for Complex Trauma?
The best complex trauma therapy focuses on safety, trust, and gradual healing — not rushing or forcing painful memories to surface before you’re ready.
Every client’s journey is different, and effective complex trauma therapy meets you where you are — with patience, empathy, and respect for your pace.
How to Release Complex Trauma?
Releasing complex trauma isn’t about forgetting the past — it’s about teaching your body and mind that you are safe now. This process takes time and gentle guidance from a trained trauma therapist. In complex trauma therapy, release happens gradually through a combination of awareness, emotional processing, and nervous system regulation.
Create safety first. You’ll learn grounding techniques, relaxation strategies, and ways to regulate your emotions so that processing trauma feels manageable.
Build awareness of triggers & body responses. Many people don’t realize how trauma shows up physically.
Process memories at your pace. Your therapist helps you revisit past experiences safely, using approaches like EMDR, IFS, or guided visualization.
Reconnect with your authentic self. As trauma releases, you begin to feel more grounded, confident, and connected.
What Is Considered Complex Trauma?
Complex trauma refers to repeated or long-term exposure to distressing situations, especially during formative years or within relationships where safety should have existed.
Unlike single-event trauma (like a car accident or natural disaster), complex trauma happens over time and often involves emotional betrayal or chronic stress.
Common examples include:
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Ongoing emotional, physical, or sexual abuse
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Childhood neglect or abandonment
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Domestic violence or controlling relationships
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Growing up in a chaotic, unpredictable, or unsafe environment
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Prolonged bullying or social isolation
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Caring for someone with chronic illness, addiction, or mental instability
Is It Possible to Heal from Complex Trauma?
Yes — healing from complex trauma is absolutely possible. It doesn’t mean forgetting what happened or pretending it didn’t hurt; it means integrating your past so it no longer defines your present.
Through complex trauma therapy, healing happens on multiple levels:
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Emotionally: You learn to understand and regulate overwhelming emotions instead of being controlled by them.
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Mentally: You begin to challenge beliefs like “I’m not enough” or “I’m unlovable” that may have formed during trauma.
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Physically: Your body learns to relax, trust, and feel safe again.
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Relationally: You start building healthier connections — relationships based on mutual respect, not fear or self-sacrifice.
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The Cost
Insurances we accept include BCBS-PPO, Blue Choice-PPO, UHC-Optum, and Campus Care. We also take private pay clients and offer a sliding scale fee. Please contact our office to confirm your benefits
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