Types of Trauma Therapy Modalities We Offer

Trauma therapy is not one-size-fits-all. Different approaches can support healing in different ways, depending on your experiences, goals, and what feels safest for your nervous system. Our trauma-informed therapists work collaboratively with you to choose a pace and approach that feels supportive, steady, and manageable.

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, helps the brain reprocess traumatic memories so they feel less intense and disruptive over time. EMDR can support clients experiencing PTSD, anxiety, triggers, distressing memories, and negative beliefs connected to trauma.

  • Brainspotting uses specific eye positions to help access and process trauma, emotional pain, and nervous system activation. This approach can be especially helpful for clients who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unable to fully process experiences through talk therapy alone.

  • Polyvagal-informed therapy helps clients understand how the nervous system responds to stress, danger, and connection. By learning to recognize states like fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown, clients can build tools for regulation, safety, and emotional resilience.

  • Play therapy gives children and adolescents a developmentally appropriate way to express emotions, process difficult experiences, and build coping skills. Through play, creativity, and connection, clients can explore what they may not yet have the words to say.

  • Art therapy provides a creative way to process trauma and complex emotions without needing to put everything into words. Through guided creative expression, clients can explore feelings, reduce stress, and reconnect with a sense of control and self-expression.

  • Structural dissociation therapy supports clients who experience trauma-related parts, disconnection, emotional numbing, or dissociative symptoms. This approach helps clients build internal safety, improve communication between parts of the self, and move toward greater integration at a slow and steady pace.

  • Internal Family Systems, or IFS, helps clients explore the different “parts” of themselves that may carry pain, fear, protection, or survival responses. This approach encourages self-compassion, insight, and healing from within.

  • Trauma-focused CBT helps clients identify and shift painful thoughts, beliefs, and patterns that may have developed after trauma. This approach supports emotional regulation, coping skills, and a healthier understanding of the trauma experience.

  • Humanistic therapy centers your lived experience, strengths, values, and capacity for growth. In trauma work, this approach emphasizes empathy, choice, self-acceptance, and a supportive therapeutic relationship where healing unfolds without pressure or judgment.