If so, you may be experiencing a traumatic response!

What is trauma and a traumatic response?

Often overpowering psychological and physical responses can result from being involved in a life-threatening, frightening, distressing or stressful event(s). The exposure to a traumatic event can be either by direct involvement, witnessing, threatened to be harmed or learning about an event that affects other people. During and after a traumatic event, your body goes into survival mode (fight, flight, freeze) and such a response is considered ‘a normal reaction to an abnormal event’.

Trauma may have an obvious cause with the symptoms you experience being directly related to a specific event such as a natural disaster, physical assault or serious accident.

Or your trauma responses may be as a result of repeated or prolonged exposure to a series of events such as child abuse or domestic violence (Complex Trauma).

Maybe you have experienced the shared psychological impact of a traumatic experience(s) that shatters the very fabric of a whole society, culture or group of people, such as pandemics, war, terrorism, oppression, poverty and natural disasters (Collective Trauma).

Trauma often has no timeframe – the event(s) could have occurred days or years ago.

With longer-term post-traumatic reactions, there is often the presence of other disorders such as Depression, anxiety and Substance Abuse.

How can psychological counselling help you manage your traumatic responses?

If your symptoms do not appear to be lessening with time and they are starting to interfere with your life, work, relationships and daily functioning, you could benefit from engaging in therapy.

Our goal is to help you understand your responses and help you process the trauma, so that the symptoms encroach less on your daily life and functioning. Therapy can help you to work towards feeling safe and stable in your world, so you can have good work-life balance, build your resilience and overall be more content, healthier, productive and enjoy life.

How Telehealth Psychology Services can help you

At Telehealth Psychology Services, our Mental Health Practitioners have worked regularly with people experiencing trauma and trauma-related problems. 

Therapy can help you to delve into, work on, and navigate through your personal struggles and address your difficulties.

In collaboration with you, your practitioner will use their knowledge of several psychological therapies and counselling techniques to develop your therapy plan to overcome and manage your trauma responses. 

Telehealth Psychology Services are accessible and convenient

As well as the benefits of accessibility, convenience and feeling safe in connecting with one of our Practitioners, Telehealth counselling and therapy sessions can help overcome some of the difficulties that may be a barrier for you seeking help. These barriers may include taking that first step to make an appointment, which can be daunting and anxiety provoking or being up against time pressures in just getting to schedule in an appointment.

With our Telehealth sessions, you can have your session in your own comfortable, safe space rather than facing the hassle of getting to a busy clinic. So, with the convenience and accessibility of a Telehealth appointment, it can be easier to fit therapy sessions into your busy schedule whatever your location.

Contact us today to learn more about how Telehealth Psychology Services can help you to address your Trauma and any related issues to improve your quality of life.