“I feel like I’m constantly on edge” Trauma makes it so we feel like we constantly have to be ready for something terrible to happen. Living this way is exhausting. what its like living with trauma what we hear from clients “I feel like everything triggers me.” “I feel like I can’t trust anyone.” “I always feel tense.” “I feel like I quickly go into fight or flight all the time.” “I’m always looking for something to go wrong.” “I feel like I’m crazy!” how we work with trauma our approach One approach we use is called EMDR therapy. It involves desensitizing clients to the traumatic experience, making it more tolerable. We help provide grounding tools to manage fight or flight responses that come as a result of triggers. We also help clients put words to their experience. Having words for the trauma allows it to be fully seen so it isn’t so scary and unknown. We help clients verbalize their trauma and boundaries to others to avoid becoming retraumatized by triggers. INQUIRE
