Trauma shows up differently for everyone — hypervigilance, intense reactions to triggers, nightmares, difficulty trusting others, avoidance, dissociation, people-pleasing patterns, or persistent shame and guilt. We treat these as intelligent survival responses, not personal failings.
We draw on Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Trauma-Focused CBT, Mindfulness-Based CBT, and Interpersonal Neurobiology — matched to your history, goals, and readiness rather than applied as a fixed protocol.
For many clients, trauma-focused talk approaches are combined with EMDR, Brainspotting, or somatic therapy within a single, coordinated plan of care.
Immediate appointments are available, in-person in Raleigh or by telehealth anywhere in North Carolina.
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There's no minimum threshold. If an experience is still affecting your sleep, relationships, mood, or sense of safety, it's worth talking to a trauma specialist — whether or not it meets full criteria for PTSD.
Talk therapy works largely through understanding and discussion. EMDR works differently — instead of analyzing the memory, it helps your brain finish processing it using bilateral stimulation, often without requiring detailed verbal narration.
Not necessarily. Several of the approaches we use, including EMDR and Brainspotting, do not require a detailed verbal account of the traumatic event to be effective.
Yes. Many of our approaches, including EMDR, adapt well to secure telehealth, and we see clients by telehealth throughout North Carolina.
