Trauma

In the United States, 60% of men and 50% of women experience a traumatic event during their lifetimes.

Trauma comes in many forms. Emotional trauma is the result of any extraordinarily stressful event that threatens your safety and well-being. Many events can be traumatizing, making the definition of trauma dependent more on a person’s response to an event rather than the event itself. Any event that causes extreme fright and sense of helplessness can be traumatizing such as abuse, an attack, death, divorce, serious injury, war, natural disaster, and even vicarious traumatization. Surviving a traumatic experience often manifests in both emotional and physical symptoms of trauma.

Emotional effects of trauma include:

• Shock or denial.
• Anger, irritability, and mood swings.
• Shame and guilt.
• Sadness and hopelessness.
• Confusion and difficulty concentrating.
• Anxiety and fear.
• Isolation from others.
• Feeling emotionally numb or disconnected.

Physical effects of trauma include:

• Sleeplessness.
• Racing heartbeat.
• Aches and pains.
• Fatigue.
• Muscle tension.

Symptoms of trauma can last a few days, months, or even years depending on your individual experience and ability to process the traumatic event. Moving through trauma can take time and sometimes when you feel you are doing better something triggers an emotional response that can make you feel as if all progress is lost.

At Spokane Christian Counseling, we know that dealing with trauma can be an intense roller coaster of emotions, with periods of recovery followed by times when you feel you’ll never let go of the pain that consumes your life. Christian trauma counseling can show you how to gain control of your life rather than letting horrific experiences, memories, and emotions control you.

Do I Need Trauma Counseling?

Our brains have an amazing capacity for self-preservation. Because of this, people who live through traumatic experiences might not realize the effect those experiences had on their mental, emotional, and even physical health. Often, these effects can creep up on you or hit you full force all at once. Every person processes these things in their own way but all who survive trauma can benefit from counseling to help them gain a full recovery, including for effects not yet seen.

You might benefit from Christian trauma counseling if you:

• Experience difficulty functioning at work or at home.
• Suffer from lasting depression, anxiety, or fear.
• Alienate yourself from others and are unable to form lasting relationships.
• Experience terrifying or emotional memories, nightmares, or flashbacks.
• Avoid reminders of the traumatic event.
• Feel emotionally disconnected or numb.
• Avoid situations that remind you of the trauma.
• Use drugs and/or alcohol to mask your trauma symptoms.

At Spokane Christian Counseling, we offer a supportive, understanding environment and provide guidance for healing from all kinds of traumatic experiences. If you feel stuck in time, unable to move past overwhelming pain, fear and memories, Christian trauma counseling offers support you need.

Our Christian counselors help people recover emotionally from:

• Childhood abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect
• Sexual assault
• Abusive relationships
• Traumatic injury or illness
• Natural disasters
• Witnessing traumatic events
• Sudden loss
• Combat and military trauma

Whatever your story, the trauma counselors at Spokane Christian Counseling offer you a safe place for working through your painful memories and emotions using therapy methods and a pace that work for you.

It’s natural for those who endure or witness traumatic events to be plagued by subsequent fear – but this fear does not have to define or control your life. At Spokane Christian Counseling, we offer real solutions for managing and coping with fear, so you can turn the page to a new chapter of peace and healing. Our Christian trauma counselors have dealt with a number of trauma stories using faith-based tools and years of experience in trauma-focused therapy.

Is Trauma Recovery Possible?

When looking for trauma-focused counseling, it’s important to find professionals you can trust. Dealing with trauma is a sensitive matter and poor trauma counseling can do more harm than good. At Spokane Christian Counseling, we have seen many go well beyond recovery and into a fullness of life that surpassed expectations.

Here’s what Spokane Christian Counseling has to offer:

• Experienced professionals – At Spokane Christian Counseling, all our Christian counselors are highly trained in their areas of expertise. Our trauma-focused counselors know how to navigate sensitive trauma-related issues effectively and with compassion.
• Safe and confidential – We offer trauma victims a safe place for exploring their deep and painful memories and emotions in a completely confidential environment.
• Results-driven Christian counseling – Our professionals at Spokane Christian Counseling are dedicated to helping you process your trauma through a combination of scientifically-proven counseling methods and the healing Word of God.
• Faith-based support – We offer hope and healing that cannot be found apart from God and His promises.
• Risk-Free initial session – All our counselors offer a risk-free initial session for Christian trauma counseling.

Healing and recovery from trauma are possible. Counseling professionals know more now than ever about how trauma affects the mind and body. Through Christian trauma counseling, you will find the support and tools you need.

The goals of Christian trauma counseling are:

• Processing and healing from trauma-related memories and emotions.
• Understanding and managing strong feelings.
• Learning to build connected, trusting relationships.
• Returning to a life that is fulfilling and made new in Christ.

There are many forms of trauma-focused therapy. Depending on the client’s age, type of trauma, and the effects trauma caused each individual, your Christian counselor will work to develop a treatment plan that fits your needs for trauma recovery.

Counseling after trauma isn’t always easy, but it can be critical for lasting healing. Experienced, trauma-focused counseling can help you safely work through painful memories and emotions so you can get back to a full life. Together, and at your own pace, we will work toward re-establishing your sense of physical and emotional safety and well-being.

Take the first step on your path to trauma recovery today.

At Spokane Christian Counseling, we have faith that you can overcome the challenges that trauma created in your life. To learn more about Christian trauma counseling or to schedule your risk-free initial session, contact us online or give us a call at 509-209-8961.