Have you experienced a single-event trauma where there was a before and after such as a car crash, injury, or loss?

Have you experienced a challenging childhood or had a family with addiction or dysfunction?

We understand that trauma is not just what happened to you; trauma is the effect of life events and the way they impact your body and mind in the aftermath of what happened.

When the nervous system detects danger during a traumatic experience, our bodies move out of rest and digest (parasympathetic system) into the fight-flight response as a protective mode. While that response is adaptive in acutely dangerous and life-threatening situations, in the context of everyday life, it can become damaging.

Trauma is what is left over after the danger has subsided and our bodies are stuck in a chronic fight-flight or fawn-freeze state. This chronic pattern of being stuck in states leads to PTSD and CPTSD.

If you are feeling stuck in patterns, trauma therapy can help you heal.

At IFS EMDR Therapy Group, we treat trauma using Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Polyvagal theory to heal what is stored in your body that might be getting in the way of living your best life.