INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING FOR:

Trauma Recovery and Treatment Center specializes in Trauma-Focused CBT, an evidence-based treatment of PTSD and other trauma-related conditions, such as depression or anxiety stemming from a traumatic life experience. At TRTC, we understand that each individual struggling with PTSD, depression, or anxiety following a traumatic life experience is unique and at a different point in their recovery process. While some may be actively seeking symptom relief, others may simply want more information about their condition or wish to learn new coping skills. As issues of trust are common among individuals coping with trauma-related psychological conditions, we provide a safe, confidential environment support and evidence-based care are provided.

Trauma Recovery and Treatment Center specializes in the treatment of substance use disorders. Counseling for addiction helps individuals understand what causes addiction, learn to recognize risk factors for relapse, and develop tools for coping with stressful situations. Common techniques include cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing and dialectical behavioral therapy.

Typically, individuals struggling with both trauma and addiction were asked to “get clean and sober” prior to dealing with their trauma. However, research has demonstrated that this model is often ineffective since individuals face great challenges in staying clean and sober if their trauma symptoms are not treated. Subsequently, this model often leads to high rates of relapse to alcohol and drug use and little to no treatment for the trauma. At TRTC, we believe in the integrated model of care wherein both trauma and substance use disorders are treated concurrently. This model is supported by research and often leads to greater treatment success for both conditions.

PTSD VS. COMPLEX-PTSD

Many survivors of trauma suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a condition marked by several criteria.

 1.    People suffering from PTSD have had an exposure to a traumatic event that involved actual or threatened death or injury, during which they experienced panic, horror, and helplessness.

2.    They re-experience the trauma in dreams, flashbacks, intrusive memories, or anxiety in situations that remind them of the event.

3.    They demonstrate a numbing of emotions or lack of interest in or avoidance of others and the world.

4.    They experience symptoms of hyperarousal (that elevated hypervigilant state) resulting in insomnia, irritability, anger outbursts, and difficulty concentrating.

Survivors of repeated trauma, the trauma that takes place repeatedly over months or years, can experience Complex PTSD. Symptoms can include issues with the following:

· Emotional Regulation (May include persistent sadness, suicidal thoughts, explosive anger, or inhibited anger).

· Consciousness (Includes forgetting traumatic events, reliving traumatic events, or having episodes in which one feels detached from one's mental processes or body, dissociation).

· Self-Perception (May include helplessness, shame, guilt, stigma, and a sense of being completely different from other human beings).

· Distorted Perceptions of the Perpetrator (Examples include attributing total power to the perpetrator, becoming preoccupied with the relationship to the perpetrator, or preoccupied with revenge).

· Relationships with Others (Examples include isolation, distrust, or a repeated search for a rescuer).

· One's System of Meanings (May include a loss of sustaining faith or a sense of hopelessness and despair).