Online Therapy for Trauma & Burnout Recovery
for adults in NY, IA, & all PsyPact states
“Trauma is what happened that shouldn’t have and what should’ve happened but didn’t.”
— Linda Thai
What is Trauma & Burnout?
Trauma can be viewed as any internal or external event that overwhelms the body’s ability to cope. It is not only caused by external events like violence or accidents but also from internal experiences like chronic stress and emotional neglect. If we are not able to manage or process the experience, it is trauma.
Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by prolonged stress or overwork. It often occurs in environments where individuals feel overwhelmed, unappreciated, or unable to meet constant demands.
Healing from trauma is the art of reclaiming our strength and rewriting our story
Your Nervous System is the Key
The nervous system plays a crucial role in healing trauma by regulating the body's response to stress and facilitating emotional processing. Trauma affects the autonomic nervous system, triggering the fight-flight-freeze-fawn response and dysregulating emotions.
Trauma-informed therapies (EMDR, IFS, Somatic Embodiment) target the nervous system, helping to restore balance through techniques like mindfulness, breathwork, and body-centered approaches. These methods help with regulating arousal levels, processing traumatic memories, and building resilience. By promoting a sense of safety and grounding, the nervous system can facilitate trauma healing and support emotional well-being.
Therapy for Trauma & Burnout Recovery can help you…
Have a safe space to examine painful experiences
Increase your capacity & flexibility to ride the waves of life
Retrain your brain with how it searches for evidence when scanning your environment & interpreting the data it finds
Engage in self-soothing strategies that provide relief
Feel more emotionally resilient
Put away painful experiences from your past
Respond rather than react to triggering experiences
Feel safer to set & communicate boundaries & needs with others
FAQs
about treatment for burnout & trauma
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I view trauma as something that happened to you that impacts your ability to cope. It could also be positive things that were missing from your life.
Here are specific ways trauma may show up:
* Low self-esteem
* Unwanted thoughts, memories, flashbacks
* Trouble with regulating emotions
* Avoiding upsetting places, situations, people
* Difficulty communicating with others
* Trouble with setting or maintaining boundaries
* Feeling on edge or anxious
* Difficulty sleeping or concentrating
* Headaches, stomachaches, fatigue, chronic pain
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Relational and trauma from childhood are the most common types of trauma I work with. These types of trauma may result from:
* Domestic violence
* Childhood abuse/neglect
* Gaslighting/Emotional abuse
* Abandonment
* Sexual harassment/assault
* Bullying
* Discrimination/oppression
* Generational trauma
* Children of emotionally immature parents
* Controlling parents
* Parents with mental health struggles
* Physically/emotionally unavailable parents
* Parental divorce/witnessing parental abuse or conflict
* Adult children of alcoholics (ACOA)
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Trauma therapy will be uniquely designed to fit your needs. There is no one-size-fits-all approach or pace of treatment that works for everyone.
Depending on your needs and goals, we will choose from the variety of treatment modalities I have been trained in that address trauma.
Trauma-informed care involves choice, context, and connection. Your safety and agency are top priorities in our work together.
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We’ll start with a 20-minute phone consultation to see if we are a good fit to work together.
Then we will work on creating safety and a collaborative plan that is personalized to your needs and wants. We can explore the variety of approaches to see what combination of strategies work best for your healing journey.