Trauma therapy in Denver, Colorado
Move forward from trauma and PTSD to reclaim the person you are.
We help you leave trauma in the past
Trauma and abuse of all kinds can cause physical and psychological pain and stress. Violent or singular events can cause trauma, but people also experience trauma from long-term relationships, childhood trauma, and situations. Trauma often comes from emotional abuse, personal loss, unhealthy situations, or an event that changed your life.
For many who have experienced trauma, it becomes something more than what happened to them; it can become something that defines them. In some cases, we can even experience trauma by being around or seeing others’ trauma.
After you experience trauma, including religious trauma and personal injury trauma, you may feel uncomfortable in your everyday life. You might be left living with anxiety, fears, or phobias. In some cases, it can even lead to self-harm, especially with young adults and teens.
There are many types of trauma therapy available today, and therapy can be a critical part of your recovery. After you find a therapist who specializes in trauma, you can start to heal and move forward with your life.
At My Denver Therapy, many of our therapists in Denver, Lone Tree, and Greenwood Village specialize in trauma. We’ve helped hundreds of people move past traumas that once defined them. Our trauma therapists use many of the most proven and effective ways to help clients heal from trauma. We many treatments for trauma, including EMDR and Somatic Attachment Therapy.
We believe that every trauma experience is unique. We listen to you to better understand your experience. We create a safe, trusting environment to help you move forward from the trauma that has affected your life and reclaim who you are. Using trauma-informed care methods, we work with you at your pace to identify, process, and move forward with your life..
Benefits of trauma treatment
Move on from the past
Be able to face past traumas and experiences without feeling stuck.
Focus on the present
Instead of reliving past traumatic times, shift your mindset to move forward with your life.
Eliminate symptoms
Break free how trauma manifests in your life.
Make everyday life better
Learn skills to identify and cope with your feelings, which helps you live life the way you want to live.
Become aware of long-term trauma
Understand how things that have happened to previous generations can affect you. Children and adolescents may experience long-term trauma.
Feel like yourself
Trauma doesn’t have to define you. Learn how you can reclaim who you really are.
Reclaim power
Move beyond recovery and empower yourself to live the way you want to live.
Overcome negative behaviors
Trauma can oftentimes lead to negative behaviors, including emotional changes and addiction. As part of your recovery, we can help you take control of the emotional response that trauma has had on your life.
Gain skills
Prevent relapses by learning effective, tangible coping skills that you can use in your everyday life
Do I need trauma counseling?
If you’re asking yourself if you need trauma therapy, you may need help processing whatever happened in your life. Trauma therapy is one of the most common reasons why people see a therapist. You may be experiencing PTSD or feeling like a traumatic event has taken hold of your everyday life.
Trauma, including childhood trauma, can create anxiety and cause PTSD. It can show up in nightmares, flashbacks, and affect relationships in ways that go far beyond traumatic events. People who have experienced trauma often recall having distressing recollections of an event. This might include visual memories, thoughts, or perceptions of what happened.
Even with the right therapist, working through trauma can be challenging, After you work through your trauma, it can change your life. Our trauma therapists create treatment plans designed for you.
Examples of trauma
After a traumatic experience, it’s important to talk to a trained therapist who can help you recover. Here are just some types of events that can create trauma:
- Sexual assault, physical or verbal abuse
- Growing up an in environment filled with criticism or substance abuse
- Chronic or terminal illnesses in friends or family members
- Car or motor vehicle accidents or close calls
- Witnessing acts of violence
- Neglect or abandonment by someone you trust
- Bullying
- Fights, military combat, or physical assault
- Natural disasters
- Grief or loss of someone you care about or an unresolved situation
- Being controlled by someone
- Divorce or separation, either yourself or your parents
- Events before, during, or after addiction
- School, public, or workplace shootings
- Serious injuries or accidents
- Serious medical procedures
- Family or spiritual abuse
Any traumatic event can affect your mental health and negatively affect your quality of life.
When our brains are overwhelmed, they may not properly process traumatic memories. This can create anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
Symptoms of trauma
If you’ve asked yourself, “Do I need trauma therapy?”, here are some symptoms of trauma:
- 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
- Recurring negative memories or disturbing images
- Nightmares related to the traumatic event
- Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
- Obsessive tendencies
- Purposefully avoiding topics or types of physical spaces
- Constantly fearing for your safety
- Dangerous behaviors, including drugs and alcohol, to cope
- Thoughts of suicide and hopelessness
- Negative thoughts
Trauma can create feelings of detachment and lead to isolation from friends and social situations. Physical signs of trauma and PTSD can include insomnia, issues with concentration, memory issues, fatigue, and more.
When our brains don’t process trauma the right way, there can be negative consequences. In some cases, it can feel like you’re reliving trauma again and again. Trauma can be so intense that it can prevent someone from living their everyday life and being the person they once were.
Treating trauma with a therapist
It can be complex to treat trauma. For many people, it’s hard to imagine moving past or treating an issue that has affected so many parts of their life. The good news is that treating trauma can be truly life-changing.
Traumatic events are often difficult to talk about, even more when you haven’t shared them with anyone. Our trained therapists can help you explore and heal from traumatic memories and experiences. Trauma-focused therapies feel safe and at your pace.
We build a relationship with you and are there for every step of your journey to recover from trauma. As you build a trusted relationship with your therapist, you can share more about your trauma as it feels right to you.
Through personalized treatment plans and the use of different therapeutic modalities. We’re trained in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), somatic attachment therapy, trauma-informed yoga, and integrated treatment of complex trauma for adolescents (ITCT-A), We help our clients understand that they are more than their pain, trauma, or abuse.
How trauma therapy helps
We create our treatment plans to help our clients rediscover the person they want to be. Here are just a few ways that trauma therapy can help:
Feel comfortable
We help you work through what you’ve experienced to help your mind and body feel at peace, and you can feel more like yourself again.
Improve relationships
After you go through a traumatic experience, it can change how you manage and nurture your relationships. Through therapy, we can help you reconnect with and feel comfortable around other people.
Move forward from memories
We help you change the way that memories and experiences affect you. You can move forward by lowering the effect of these memories.
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Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.
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Meet our therapists
My Denver Therapy is one of the largest woman-owned therapy private practices in Colorado with many of the best, most requested mental health therapists in the Denver Metro area.
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 also 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, EMDR, 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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