Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Trauma and PTSD involve common reactions to serious, disturbing, and traumatic events.

Those who have experienced trauma may experience flashbacks, intrusive memories, and nightmares about a traumatic event. They may avoid situations, conversations, and other reminders of what happened, develop strong beliefs about themselves, others, and the world around them, and feel very strong, negative emotions such as anger, fear, guilt, and shame. PTSD can develop from getting “stuck” in these trauma responses, and evidence-based trauma therapy can help people get “unstuck” and lead healthier and happier lives.

At Dig Deep Psychology, our psychologists specialize in trauma therapy to help you overcome PTSD and trauma symptoms, reclaim the parts of your life that trauma has taken, and experience posttraumatic growth. Treatments include Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE), and other gold-standard approaches that research has shown to effectively treat PTSD. These therapies can help you become your own expert in trauma therapy, empowering you to move forward from trauma in a healthy and constructive way.

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life.”

— David Kemper