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Adult Trauma

Trauma is described as distressing events that may have long lasting effects from adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health. An Adult may have experienced a life changing event in adulthood and or experienced childhood trauma that has been with a person into adulthood creating confusion and unwanted behaviors, triggers and stress. 

A traumatic event can be experienced just one time or many times in a person’s life. Adults can express the following symptoms of trauma:

  • personally, experiencing traumatic events.
  • witness to extreme exposure of adverse events in childhood and as an adult
  • distressing dreams and sleep disturbance
  • distress from triggers
  • avoidance
  • feeling detached from others
  • irritability
  • self-destructive behavior
  • angry outbursts toward self/family/friends/coworkers
  • negative beliefs and emotional state, unable to experience positive emotions
  • inability to remember events (foggy brain) and difficulty to concentrate
  • hypervigilant and a startled response
  • avoidance and feeling detached from others.

Support, guidance and assistance of a therapist is fundamental for your healing and promoting a culture of safety and empowerment.

If you or someone you know matches the trauma symptoms listed above, I am confident that I can help and invite you to contact me today for a free consultation.

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