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Trauma Therapy

It focuses on addressing and resolving the impact of trauma, which can result from events such as abuse, assault, accidents, natural disasters, or prolonged stress.

Young woman suffering from trauma.

Trauma can affect emotions, behaviour, relationships, and physical health.

Understanding how to cope and manage your fear and anxiety can improve the quality of your life.

Car Accidents

Car accidents can be a traumatic event that has a wide range of physical, emotional, and psychological impacts. Some may experience anxiety, stress and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Your Emotions

Disbelief, Fear, Sadness, Grief, Overwhelmed, Anxiety, Guilt, Anger, Shame, Helplessness.

Common Behaviours

Avoiding driving, reminders of the crash or social activities, – Trouble functioning at work – Relationship difficulties – Eating more or less than usual.

Physical Reactions

Trembling – Sweating – Dizziness – Crying – Rapid breathing – Poor balance and coordination – Fatigue – Disrupted sleep – Nightmares – Fast heart rate.

Having mental health check-ins is important, it helps manage unexpected emotions and behaviors.

You should seek professional help if you:

  • Are unsure how to cope
  • Feel anxious about driving or being in traffic
  • Have panic attacks, nightmares, and/or flashbacks
  • Use of alcohol or drugs to help you cope
  • Interruptions to routines and lifestyle

Home Invasions/ Crime

Home invasions and crimes can have significant psychological impacts on individuals and families. With appropriate support and strategies, individuals can work towards recovery and regain a sense of safety and normalcy.

Victims may initially experience shock or disbelief that the event occurred with intense fear, anxiety, and a heightened sense of vulnerability affecting their daily functioning, relationships, and overall quality of life.

Individual or family counselling can help process emotions, rebuild relationships, and develop coping strategies.

You should seek professional help if you:

  • If your anger consumes you
  • Overwhelming sense of denial
  • Sense of loss and sadness
  • Sense of fear
  • Anxiety

Murder

The psychological impacts of murder, whether as a victim, a witness, or a loved one of someone involved can be profound and long-lasting. Immediate feelings of shock, disbelief, and numbness are common. The event may seem surreal or incomprehensible. Profound grief and mourning can include a range of emotions such as anger, sadness, and guilt.

Difficulty functioning in daily life, including problems with work, relationships, or self-care. Comprehensive support and treatment can help mitigate these effects and support recovery and resilience.

You should seek professional help if you:

  • Experience intense sorrow.
  • Consuming feelings of hopelessness and despair.
  • Nightmares and/ or flashbacks
  • Denial

Natural Disasters

Natural disasters have affected families and communities within the Caribbean, especially during the Hurricane season and from severe types of storms.

Panic, fear, stress, and anxiety would increase, therefore learning coping strategies to help manage these emotions and reduce the impact of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms that occur during the rainy season is important to improve your mental health.

This can manifest itself as recurring flashbacks or nightmares, social anxiety, depression, feeling constantly on edge, mood swings, avoidance, tension headaches, nausea or trembling, sleep difficulties or eating issues, irritability, chest pain, withdrawal, difficulty making decisions or fear that the event will be repeated, among other symptoms.

You should seek professional help if you have:

  • Feelings of distress or hopelessness and you feel like you are barely able to get through your daily responsibilities and activities.

Grief and Bereavement

Grief tends to impact our lives with intense sorrow that affects our daily schedule. Working with your therapist through the different stages of Grief and Bereavement can help you cope and ultimately find some level of acceptance.

Types of Grief

  • Traumatic grief - sudden, unexpected, or unnatural loss.
  • Complicated grief - Intense and ongoing emotions about the death.
  • Anticipatory grief - mourning an impending loss that hasn’t yet happened due to terminal illness.
  • Ambiguous loss - loss occurs with no possibility for closure or a full understanding- missing person cases.

We've Helped people Just like You.

I enjoyed my counseling experience. I feel that it has been such a benefit to my life. I have learned new coping skills and ways to help myself through grief and anxiety. Although professional, they created a safe space and it felt like chatting with a familiar face. 

Chantel

Positive Path Counselling is very professional and they treat every client with care and kindness. My counsellor exudes a personality that one immediately trusts. She has helped me tremendously, and I never hesitate to recommend them to others.

Crystal

My experience has been positive and nothing short of transformative. My Counsellor was warm, insightful, and helped me through gentle questioning, understand my emotions, identified areas of concern and expressed them clearly in a safe and supportive environment. 

Marie

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Trauma counselling helps individuals process and heal from the emotional wounds caused by traumatic experiences. 

Untreated trauma can be presented as chronic anxiety, depression, poor appetite, poor sleeping habits, substance abuse, and even physical health problems.

A sense of control over your life, and emotions, incorporating techniques to help manage triggers and stressors and the ability to set new goals and plan for your future.