Navigating PTSD or Complex Trauma
Living with PTSD or complex trauma can feel like an unending cycle of fear, anxiety, or emotional numbness. Whether you’ve experienced a single traumatic event or years of ongoing trauma, it can deeply affect your sense of safety, connection, and self-worth. If you're ready to begin your healing journey and regain control over your life, we’re here to help you navigate these deep emotional wounds in a safe, compassionate environment.
Embrace the boundless possibilities ahead.
Does This Sound Like You?
YOU MIGHT HAVE PTSD IF YOU EXPERIENCE THE FOLLOWING:
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You've experienced flashbacks, nightmares, or severe anxiety after a traumatic event.
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If you find yourself avoiding situations, people, or places that remind you of a traumatic experience.
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If you are constantly feeling on edge, easily startled, or excessively watchful for danger.
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You have intrusive memories, thoughts, or distressing images related to the trauma may intrude into your daily life.
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It is difficult to experience positive emotions, you feel emotionally detached, or a there is general sense of emptiness.
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Persistent sleep disturbances, such as insomnia or nightmares, can be associated with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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You have frequent mood swings, irritability, and outbursts of anger,
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If you've withdrawn from social activities or isolated yourself from loved ones due to your trauma.
YOU MIGHT HAVE CPTSD IF YOU RELATE TO THE FOLLOWING:
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You have experienced a childhood marked by abuse, neglect, poverty, exposure to violence, addiction, alcoholism, or enduring high levels of chronic stress.
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You find yourself occasionally overwhelmed by your emotions, to the point where you might consider yourself "over-sensitive" or "over-reactive." You might have even been called these things by others in your life.
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You struggle to lift yourself out of a dark mood once you're in it.
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You encounter difficulties with memory, concentration, and maintaining consistent focus on tasks until completion.
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You are burdened by anxiety, depression, addiction, or alcohol-related issues in your own life. You find yourself in a constant game of “whack-a-mole”, reaching for other “substances” like food, sex, gambling, or shopping when you decide to stop drinking or using substances.
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The way you express anger creates complications in your relationships, work, or overall life. You sometimes feel trapped in a cycle of anxious thoughts, making it challenging to relax or sleep when you need to.
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You’ve ever said the words, “it wasn’t THAT bad”.
Our Approach
At Little Seed Counseling, we use trauma-informed, body-based approaches to help clients process and heal from PTSD and complex trauma. We focus on building safety, emotional regulation, and reconnection to yourself and others. Through somatic therapy, TCTSY, EMDR, Brainspotting and mindfulness techniques, we help you break free from the emotional and physical grip of trauma. Whether your trauma stems from childhood or more recent experiences, we offer individualized care that respects the depth of your healing process.
Breaking Barriers
Complex trauma (CPTSD) can create deep-seated patterns of behavior and emotional responses that act as barriers to personal growth, fulfillment, and genuine connection with others. These reactions may manifest as self-sabotage, fear of intimacy, chronic self-doubt, or a constant state of hypervigilance, among other challenges.
By engaging in therapy, you can actively work towards unraveling these deeply ingrained reactions, freeing yourself from their grip, and allowing yourself to embrace a life defined by happiness, love, and self-assuredness.
Find the Origin
We will help you explore the emotional wounds, negative beliefs, and distorted perceptions that have taken root as a result of your past experiences. By shedding light on these underlying factors, therapy provides an opportunity for you to challenge and reframe these beliefs, fostering a new perspective and empowering you to break free from the limitations they impose.
Through our work together, therapy serves as a catalyst for your personal growth and transformation. It opens the door to a vibrant, love-filled, and confident life that you are inherently meant to have. We are here to support and guide you every step of the way as you reclaim your true self and embrace the boundless possibilities that lie ahead.