Trauma Therapy · Individual Therapy

What happened to you
doesn't have to be
who you are forever.

Trauma isn't what's wrong with you. It's what happened to you. The ways you learned to survive — the hypervigilance, the shutting down, the patterns that protected you then but are costing you now — those were adaptations. They made sense. And they can change.

The work isn't about endlessly reliving what happened. It's about processing it in a way that shifts its grip — so that the past stops showing up uninvited in your present.

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The Reality

Trauma lives in the body
before it lives in the story.

You might know, intellectually, that a situation isn't dangerous. And your body still responds as if it is. That gap between what you know and how you feel — that's trauma. It's not a thinking problem. It's a nervous system problem.

Therapy addresses both: the narrative, what you carry and how you make meaning of it, and the somatic reality, what your body learned and how to help it learn something different.

You don't have to relive everything. Effective trauma work doesn't require you to narrate every detail. We work at a pace your nervous system can handle.

Small-t trauma counts. You don't need a singular catastrophic event for trauma to be real. Chronic stress, emotional neglect, relational wounds — these count.

This is relational work. The therapeutic relationship itself is part of what heals. Safety, consistency, and trust aren't incidental — they're the mechanism.

You get to stay in control. Nothing happens in session that you don't consent to. Pace and direction are always collaborative.

What Trauma Therapy Addresses

What brings people to
trauma-focused therapy

Trauma takes many forms. These are some of the most common entry points.

Childhood Trauma

Neglect, abuse, instability, or simply an environment that didn't feel safe — and what that built in you.

Relational Trauma

What happens when the people who were supposed to protect you were the source of harm.

PTSD Symptoms

Intrusion, avoidance, hyperarousal, the feeling of being stuck in a moment that won't fully pass.

Complex Trauma

Repeated, prolonged exposure rather than a single event. Often harder to name and just as real.

Grief & Loss

Losses that were traumatic — sudden, violent, unresolved — and the complicated grief that follows.

Identity After Trauma

Who you are when you're not in survival mode. Building a self beyond what trauma shaped.

"Healing from trauma isn't
forgetting what happened.
It's no longer being controlled by it."
— Myke Cooper, LCSW
Atlanta, GA · Online Across Six States

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a trauma-informed therapist?

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