Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) develops after exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor. The traumatic event returns in a very intrusive and distressing way, which can effect your sense of security, self-esteem and development, resulting in depression and high anxiety. The traumatic event is persistently re-experienced in some of the following ways: recurrent and intrusive memories or dreams, a sense of reliving the experience, and efforts to avoid activities, people, or places that arouse recollections of the trauma. A person might experience difficulty falling or staying asleep, irritability or outbursts of anger, difficulty concentrating, and jumpiness.
I use Neurofeedback and EMDR, along with talk therapy, behavior therapy, and family therapy to help you reprocess troubling events until they are no longer disturbing. I also treat anxiety and worry, which may also include panic attacks and obsessive compulsive symptoms.
I also integrate Somatic Experiencing (SE) into my work. SE employs awareness of body sensation to help people re-negotiate trauma, rather than relive and reenact it. SE allows the highly aroused survival energies of flight or fright to be safely experienced and gradually discharged.