What is Trauma Recovery?
When an extremely distressing or traumatic experience happens, it becomes lodged in the brain with all the sights, sounds, thoughts, and feelings that accompany it. When a person is overwhelmed by a distressing experience, the brain cannot process as it would normally, and negative thoughts and feelings are trapped in the nervous system.
Unaddressed trauma and adverse life experiences impact relationships, substance use, parenting, work life, physical, and mental health.
It is critical to unblock and desensitize the ‘stuck trauma reactivity,' to allow the experience to be processed and integrated in a healthy way. After a successful intervention, a memory can remain but the negative response will have been neutralized.
Is Family Solutions School an expert in trauma recovery?
Yes, trauma recovery is a specialty practice area at Kells Counselling, which is a part of the Family Solutions School.
Kells Counselling is part of the Family Solutions Group. Kells offers counselling, assessment, trauma recovery, and clinical services to help individuals who are struggling to learn, grow, and heal.
Kells offers a range of trauma recovery interventions and programs to assist individuals to recover from psychological and emotional injury following a traumatic event.
Kells' trauma-trained psychologists and clinicians have extensive experience as well as up-to-date training in evidence-based, specialized interventions to remediate post traumatic reactivity, and to accelerate recovery. Our trauma specialists are extensively trained in the modalities recommended by the American Psychological Association - Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Adults.
How do I know these courses are for me?
The steps following a traumatic experience can be very confusing. Many traumatic reactions resolve on their own. However, sometimes after a traumatic experience, we cannot seem to shake off the post traumatic symptoms or reactivity. In other cases, we are numb for a time, and then symptoms creep up on us.
Good mental health is maintained the same way as good physical health. When you are ill, have been injured, or have symptoms that are interfering in your life, you see a physician. Sometimes, if the symptoms are unusual, you might go to a specialist instead.
When you experience a traumatic or distressing event, you follow the same steps for proactive mental health care. You book an appointment to see a pychologist, who can assist you to determine if you are healing on your own, if you need a bit of help, or if there are symptoms of complicated psychological injury that require proactive intervention to ensure that you stay well.
Featured Trauma Courses
Family Solutions Group School offers trauma recovery and psycho-educational courses created by registered psychologists to help participants heal from trauma.
