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How to find a trauma therapist

2/6/2021

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A trauma therapist is a specialist who is trained in dealing with the wide-ranging effects that trauma can have throughout your life.  Trauma is a single term for many different experiences ranging from childhood accidents, abuse, military service, grief, and a number of other reasons.  Trauma is an umbrella term for a lot of specific hurt and pain.

Why a trauma therapist specialist is the right choice.
When you are working through trauma, a trauma therapist specialist can help you through your journey with evidence based treatment modalities.  TF-CBT (Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) are just some of the tools that a trauma therapist will have to help you to rebuild your life.

Choosing a trauma therapist that meets your needs
Silver Lake Psychology takes the hard work out of finding a trauma therapist.  Our Matching Experts are professionals devoted to finding the perfect trauma therapist for you. 
Our Matching Experts will take the time to listen.  We’ll find out more about you and the trauma you’ve experienced.  They’ll also take it further and talk about your needs in a therapist.  Does your trauma therapist need to be a specific gender?  Have experience in a related specialty to help you deal with the event that caused the trauma?  Does your trauma therapist need to speak a certain language or come from a certain culture?  No matter your needs, our Matching Experts will find the best trauma therapist for you.

Understanding the effects of trauma
A trauma therapist can help you deal with the events that led to your trauma.  Understanding these experiences can help you to build coping strategies, improve your relationships with yourself, platonic relationships, and romantic relationships.  The work can be difficult but a trauma therapist can set you up for success.
In addition to dealing with the events that led to the trauma, you’ll explore how trauma has affected your life.  This may delve into your trauma response, anger management, building your self-esteem, and breaking detrimental habits and relationships.  Trauma therapists are trained to deal with the effects of trauma throughout your life and can set you up for success, growth, and healing.

What will you focus on with your trauma therapist?
Trauma is complicated and unique for each person.  Our trauma therapists at Silver Lake Psychology are trained to help you no matter what caused your trauma.
Some of things you may work on with your trauma therapist are:
  • What event led to your trauma?
  • How has trauma affected your self-esteem?
  • Has trauma affected your platonic or romantic relationships?
  • Do you have anger that you need to process?
  • How to live with trauma
  • How to break the cycle of trauma and pick up on warning signs
  • How to focus on your future post trauma.





Silver Lake Psychology has many trauma therapist specialists available!
Silver Lake Psychology is dedicated to helping people deal with the effects of trauma and is always recruiting for trauma therapist specialists to ensure that our clients can be seen quickly and offer same week appointments.  We know that when you’re ready to start your journey of healing not loosing momentum is crucial.
Click here to be matched with your trauma therapist.

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How to find a therapist when you’ve experienced trauma

2/6/2021

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Trauma is a complex term that has wide ranging effects in our life.  While we may have received trauma due to military service or a childhood accident, trauma is much more widespread than we’ve come to realize in recent years.  Many different reasons can cause trauma and it’s life shattering effects can wreak havoc throughout many different aspects of your life.
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Why should you see a trauma therapist?

A trauma therapist is specialized in helping clients to understand the events that led to their trauma.  This work can be difficult but inspire ground-breaking changes for our client’s lives.
Trauma is a complex, life-altering effect of tragedy, stress, grief, and/or pain.  Giving yourself grace to pause and reflect in a pointed way can help to understand what happened, how it affected you then, how it affects you now, and how it will affect you in the future.  Understanding your trauma can be a life-changing experience.  A trauma therapist can help you through this difficult process to make progress in your life.

Why seeing a trauma therapist can be the right choice for you
A trauma therapist can help you to understand and explore how your trauma has affected different aspects of your life.  This may explore self-esteem, your relationship with platonic relationships and romantic partners, your career, anger, or fear.  These intense topics can be hard to understand and a trauma therapist can guide you through this journey of introspection and acceptance.  We’re trained to support you to make the big insights that can lead to life-altering change.

What are the benefits of seeing a trauma therapist?
Trauma therapists have a wide range of specialized tools to help clients with trauma heal.  These tools include TF-CBT (Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Theory) and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing.  When you speak to our Matching Experts they’ll learn more about your story and the trauma you have experienced to match you with your best match to set you up from success at the beginning of your therapy journey. 

We’ll use our Mindful Matching Process to tailor the therapy approach to your trauma in addition to your preferences.  Knowing more about your story allows our Matching Experts to get you a trauma therapist that is a perfect match for you.  At Silver Lake Psychology, we’re passionate about helping people dealing with trauma and always have trauma specialists available for our clients.
When you meet with your trauma therapist they will help you delve into your trauma.  Some of the questions and thoughts you may go through may include:
  • What happened to lead to your trauma?
  • How has trauma affected your self-esteem and self-image?
  • Has trauma affected your relationships with others?
  • Are there any physical manifestations of your trauma?
  • How to understand your trauma response
  • Learning to live with trauma
  • How to create healthy coping mechanisms.


We have many trauma therapists on our staff
Trauma is a wide-ranging, complex term for a number of different pain experiences in our life.  At Silver Lake Psychology we have dedicated ourselves to making trauma therapist specialists accessible.  No matter the cause, our trauma specialists can help you rebuild your life and look forward to your future.
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Click here to match with your professionally matched trauma specialist.  
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