Rewire Your Brain: Complex Trauma Therapy
Fort Worth + Online Across Texas
“What’s wrong with me, that I can’t just get over this?”
You can’t get over something that’s still happening.
With complex trauma, you’ve not only had a prolonged traumatic experience (such as childhood abuse or neglect, experiencing domestic violence either personally or toward others, chronic childhood illness, or exploitation), but that prolonged exposure actually changed your brain and nervous system.
As a result, you continue to have flashbacks, chronic dissociation (“spacing out”), difficulties with short-term memory, trouble telling your own life story, addictive or self-sabotaging tendencies, and problems forming healthy long-term, committed relationships.
Resource: 3 Body Postures to Build Trust
Symptoms of Complex Trauma
Sudden mood swings
“Freezing up” in crowded settings
Chronic “spacing out” or dissociation
Difficulty forming long-term, stable relationships
Cutoff with family of origin
Memory lapses & difficulty forming short-term memories
Sudden thoughts of self-harm or passive thoughts of suicide that seemingly come out of nowhere
Ability to narrate horrific events in your life with a calm, detached demeanor, almost as if you’re telling a story that happened to someone else (detachment from yourself and your experience)
Difficulty identifying your own emotions, wants, and needs
The good news?
You can rewire your brain and nervous system for health and safety.
In therapy, we will incorporate body, mind, heart, and soul in the healing process. You will learn how to process everything you’ve been through, so your brain and nervous system can be rewired for safety and loving, healing connection. It won’t be an easy process, and with complex trauma, the process also isn’t often as short as we’d like. But there is hope. Your brain and nervous system can learn that the present is not like the past, and you can look forward to a future that really is better than anything you’ve experienced so far. The best is yet to come.
In-Person, Online, & Outdoor Therapy Available
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Gallery Church Fort Worth
In-person sessions offered at a cozy office in the heart of Fort Worth, TX! (It’s also a pretty great church if you’re looking for one)
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Homestead Hope Fort Worth
In-person sessions offered at Homestead Hope, an established faith-based counseling practice in Fort Worth, TX.
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Online
Access secure online therapy in the comfort of your home, wherever you are in Texas (or internationally depending on local regulations).
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Outdoors
We can “walk and talk” or find a solitary spot to sit down for your therapy session at one of Fort Worth’s walking trails.
