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After you experience trauma, you might be experiencing multiple kinds of physical and psychological stress. PTSD might make it difficult to sleep, or you might replay an event in your mind over and over. Traumatic events and PTSD from them can make you feel like you’re not fully present, or even like you’re no longer the person that you were before. You can therapy for PTSD in Denver from trained therapists who have helped thousands of people with trauma.
PTSD doesn’t need to come from a violent event, or even a single one. Things like emotional abuse, constant negative thoughts, personal loss, or unhealthy environments at work or at home can create trauma that manifests as PTSD for all types of people.
Our Denver PTSD therapists help you move forward, be present, and learn skills that help you feel like yourself again. If your PTSD has taken parts of your identity or control from you, we help you rebuild your whole self and eliminate negative behaviors that might have come as a result of your trauma.
While trauma and your PTSD might not have been something in your control, seeking PTSD therapy can help feel like yourself again. Your trauma is something that happened, but it is not who you are. When you’re working through and processing your trauma and PTSD, it’s important to work with a trained therapist who can help guide you back to being the person you know you are.
With PTSD, therapy can be a critical part of your recovery. At My Denver Therapy, many of our therapists in Denver, Greenwood Village, and Lone Tree specialize in trauma and use therapy methods like EMDR to help you move forward with your life. No matter where you are with processing your trauma, we listen, identify how PTSD affects you, and lead you towards practical steps to help you recovery.
Benefits of PTSD therapy
Here are just a few of the ways that seeing a PTSD therapist in Denver can help you move on and move forward from your trauma.
Move forward
Be able to face traumatic experiences without feeling stuck.
Be present
Live your life instead of your memories
Feel like yourself
Break free from how your PTSD has affected your life
Learn practical skills
Learn how to cope with your PTSD and live life how you want to.
Rebuild yourself
Trauma doesn’t have to define you. Reclaim who you really are.
Eliminate negative behaviors
PTSD and trauma can oftentimes lead to negative behaviors, including addiction. As part of your recovery, we help you take control of the secondary effects trauma has had on your life.
Causes of PTSD and trauma
There are many things that can cause trauma and PTSD. It’s usually triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event.
Every person is different, and different events can cause different reactions. Any traumatic event can negatively affect your mental health and ultimately cause PTSD when our brains aren’t able to effectively process them.
Therapy can help you learn to manage your symptoms and cope with the trauma you’ve experienced. Our experienced trauma therapists in Denver specialize in PTSD treatment. With the right help, you can overcome PTSD and live a full and productive life.
Whether PTSD was created by a singular big event, small events over a period of time, or something in between, your traumatic experiences could be causing PTSD that make it difficult to move forward with your life. When you’re looking for PTSD therapy in Denver, Greenwood Village, or Douglas County, we can help you understand, heal, and recover so that you can start living a better life.
Here are some common causes of PTSD:
- Sexual, physical or verbal abuse
- Environments filled with criticism or substance abuse
- Chronic illnesses in yourself, friends, or family members
- Car or motor vehicle accidents
- Witnessing acts of violence or discipline
- Neglect or abandonment as an adult or child by someone you trust
- Bullying at work, home, or school
- Fights, military combat, or physical assault
- Natural disasters and other incidents outside of your control
- Grief or loss of someone you care about or an unresolved situation
- Being held against your will or controlled by another individual
- Divorce or separation, either yourself or your parents
- Addiction and the effect it has or had on your life
- School, public, or workplace shootings
- Serious injuries, medical procedures, or accidents
- Spiritual abuse or experiences at church or your place of worship
Even if you recognize that you’re not feeling or acting like yourself because of your trauma and PTSD, you might not know how to make it stop or change. PTSD affects nearly 10% of the population during some point in their lives, and about half of women will experience a traumatic event in their life. Many teens and children experience trauma and PTSD, most often from things like neglect and abuse.
PTSD Symptoms
When you experience a traumatic event, it can dramatically change how you live your life. It can change how you see yourself, your relationships, and even how you are at work. PTSD doesn’t have to be caused by going to war, working in dangerous environments, or by something that directly happened to you.
You might be constantly feeling or on edge, isolating yourself because you feel like your emotions are unpredictable or like you can’t explain them to people. It might be difficult for you to go work, interact with your friends and family, and be the person that previously were. You might be having nightmares, flashbacks, and having trouble maintaining your relationships because of the thoughts that keep going through your mind.
PTSD can manifest in both physical and psychological ways, including the following symptoms:
- Repetitive thoughts, images, or memories of negative memories and disturbing events
- Avoiding specific situations that you might associate with what an event
- Feelings of anxiety, including increased heart rate and tense muscles
- Feeling like the event is happening again or that you can be “triggered” by certain events
- Feeling detached from others and disinterested in things that you used to like
- Recurring nightmares related to the traumatic event
- Mood swings and feeling irritable
- Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
- Obsessive tendencies and thoughts
- Purposefully avoiding topics of conversation or types of physical spaces that remind you of an event
- Constantly fearing for your safety and looking around to make sure you’re safe
- Dangerous behaviors, including drugs and alcohol, to cope
- Thoughts of suicide and hopelessness
- Difficulty concentrating or focusing
- Inability to feel happy, relaxed, or like yourself
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Meet our Denver therapists
My Denver Therapy is one of the largest woman-owned therapy private practices in Colorado with many of the best, most requested therapists in Denver.
As a therapist-owned practice with decades of combined experience, we care about seeing our clients heal, grow, and thrive. We’re one of the only therapy practices in Colorado with licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, social workers, and psychiatric nurse practitioners who actively see new clients. Whether you’re an adult, teen, young adult, couple, or family, our inclusive therapist team is built to specialize in you.
Our practice started with one therapist in a shared office suite, but we’ve grown to help thousands of people in Colorado by providing in-person therapy at our conveniently located Denver Metro area counseling offices in Denver, Greenwood Village, and Lone Tree, plus online therapy for clients throughout Colorado. Because of the way our team works, our therapists provide consultation for other therapists and private practices in the Denver Metro area.
Our inclusive therapists provide some of the most innovative, effective, and in-demand forms of therapy available today, including EMDR, Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, CBT, and IFS. We also have more therapists trained in Ketamine-assisted therapy and more teen therapists and young adult counselors than nearly every other private practice in Denver.
We know that clients want to find the best therapists in Denver, so our team includes therapists with different backgrounds, specialities, and experiences to help you find the right fit. We’ll match you with one of our therapists who is the best for your goals, location, budget, and schedule to help you get started quickly.
We’re out of network for insurance, Tricare, and are unable to take Medicaid, but most of our therapists’ rates are lower than the local and national averages for therapy.
All of our therapists take a client-focused approach to counseling and approach each session with a commitment to your progress and growth.
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