Trauma can feel overwhelming, leaving lingering emotions like sadness, fear, or anger long after the event has passed. It can affect sleep, focus, trust, and relationships.
Whether the trauma comes from loss, abuse, an accident, or other distressing experiences, healing is possible, and psychotherapy can be a crucial step.
At Bethel Psychiatry, our team is here to help you discover hope, strength, and clarity through psychotherapy.
Let’s take a closer look at trauma recovery through psychotherapy.

What Is Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy helps you work through emotions and thoughts with a qualified professional. Your therapist listens and teaches you ways to cope with pain.
Psychotherapy can help you:

  • Understand your trauma and its effects
  • Learn ways to cope with stress, fear, or sadness
  • Build stronger relationships with others
  • Gain tools to feel safe and calm again

Our therapists use evidence-based trauma therapy techniques at Bethel Psychiatry.
These are the procedures that have been found to assist individuals in healing. More than that, we concentrate on you as a human being, and we treat you with empathy, compassion and respect.

How Trauma Affects You

Trauma can affect your body, mind and behavior. Some signs of trauma are:

  • Experiencing nervousness or worry always
  • Nightmares or unpleasant memories
  • Senseless or detached from yourself or others
  • Getting scared easily
  • Avoiding people or places that remind you of what happened

Sometimes, trauma affects how you see yourself. You can be guilty or self-incriminating. You might think that you are so weak or shattered.
If you notice these signs, you might need trauma therapy. These feelings are normal, but therapy can help.

How Psychotherapy Helps Heal Trauma

Psychotherapy has several healing services. At Bethel Psychiatry, we will help you on your way in a very caring and compassionate manner:

  • Creating a Safe Space

A therapist gives you a safe place to share your feelings without being judged. Benefits of Feeling Secure:

  • It allows your body and mind to relax
  • It makes it easier to face trauma

At Bethel Psychiatry, your comfort and trust are our top priorities.

  • Understanding Your Feelings

Trauma may confuse the emotions. You can be angry, sad and scared simultaneously. Through psychotherapy, one becomes able to recognize and interpret these feelings. Your therapist assists in words to your feelings and thus makes them manageable.

  • Learning Healthy Coping Skills

Psychotherapy is an approach that teaches useful skills to handle strong emotions.
You will learn techniques for coping with traumatic experiences, such as:

  • Breath exercises
  • Grounding exercises
  • Mindfulness exercises

These skills help you feel more in control.

  • Processing the Trauma

Some memories can feel stuck in your mind. Psychotherapy helps you face them slowly and safely.

  • Rebuilding Confidence and Strength

Trauma may cause you to question yourself and be fearful of trusting. The therapy will make you feel confident again, it will show that you are strong and it will restore your hope in the future.

  • Improving Relationships

Traumas may have an impact on your relationship, making you look distant, lonely, or angry. Therapy assists you to reconnect in positive manners, enhances communication, trust and empathy. Well-built relationships make the healing process very comforting and supportive.

Types of Psychotherapy for Trauma

Therapists at Bethel Psychiatry may use different ways to help:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alters detrimental thoughts
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) assists in the safe processing of frightening memories
  • Trauma-Focused Psychotherapy centers on the events and emotions
  • Mindfulness and Relaxation Techniques assist in making your mind and body relaxed

Therapists frequently mix these techniques to assist your unique trauma healing process.

Healing Is Possible

While trauma can feel overwhelming, recovery is achievable. Psychotherapy for trauma gives you a safe space. You can express painful feelings and cope with them. You will also learn skills to feel more relaxed and connected.
At Bethel Psychiatry, we provide caring, evidence-based support. Our purpose is to guide you in feeling heard, safe and positive. Even a solo session is a step in the right direction for healing from trauma with therapy.
Contact us to learn about our therapy and get started on your trauma healing journey.

FAQs

Is psychotherapy only for severe trauma?

No. Therapy may be used to deal with major and minor traumas. Psychotherapy can be used in case something is still affecting your life.

Do I need to discuss all the things that happened?

No. You share what you are ready to share. A proper therapist does not coerce disclosure.