COMPLEX TRAUMA THERAPY IN CALIFORNIA, VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, AND WASHINGTON, DC
Complex trauma therapy
Sacred Space specializes in supporting folks in healing from complex trauma - ongoing, repeated experiences of extreme stress, abuse, neglect, emotional, sexual, physical, or spiritual violence, or harm over prolonged periods of time - typically during childhood and or adolescence.
Who is complex trauma therapy for?
What to expect
COMPLEX TRAUMA THERAPY IN CALIFORNIA, VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, AND WASHINGTON, DC
SETTING THE FRAME
ESTABLISHING A SAFE FOUNDATION + START TO OUR JOURNEY
We'll begin with an initial consultation to understand your unique needs and intentions for healing and assessing your current state of well-being. If we're a good fit, our first sessions will focus on building a strong sense of relational safety, exploring your personal and ancestral history, helping you explore your internal landscape in a approachable way, and teaching you practices to regulate and ground your system.
CREATING CONGRUENCY
REPAIRING YOUR SENSE OF SELF + YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
As we continue the healing process, the focus expands to healing your relationships with your self, with others, and the world around. We'll work on building your self-worth and sense of confidence, attend to and heal specific experiences you've had that impede it's growth, and encourage internal and external changes that lead to to you experience more aligned and nourishing connections with yourself, with others, and your life in general.
DIVING DEEPER
GENTLY EXPLORING + REPROCESSING OLD WOUNDS
Once you feel more stable and resourced, we'll carefully begin to explore the past lived, systemic, and ancestral experiences that have contributed to the ongoing wounds you carry within through somatic, internal family systems, psychodynamic, earth based, and decolonial therapies. This part of the work isn't about reliving trauma, but about helping your system process and release the lingering impact of old wounds in a way that promotes healing on all levels.
BUILDING YOUR TOOL KIT
INTEGRATION + HOMEWORK TO SUSTAIN A THRIVING FUTURE
In our final sessions, we'll create space to thoughtfully reflect on your healing journey, reinforcing the skills and insights you've gained. We'll clarify ongoing growth areas and discuss practical "homework" to help you fully integrate the profound changes into your daily life, allowing you to move beyond coping and truly flourish.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF COMPLEX TRAUMA THERAPY?
Reclaim agency over your emotions
Complex trauma therapy helps you more deeply understand and manage the big, overwhelming feelings that might feel out of contro or scary to face. You'll develop a sense of confidence and skill in being able to not only experience, but lovingly face, process, and integrate these epxierences to create a deeper sense of internal stability, trust and peace.
Build stronger and healthier relationships
Complex trauma therapy helps you identify and attend to the root of old relational wounds that keep creating ongoing pain and disruption in your current relatinships. By healing these wounds, you allow yourself to clarify what you truly want and need within relationships from a place of love and self trust, to confidently share what you need and want in relationships with others, feel safer in setting boundaries to maintain your internal and external sense of safety, and overall build more secure and fulfilling connections with the people in your life.
Rediscover your true self + inner peace
Complex trauma therapy allows you to finally connect with, heal, and integrate the protective parts of you that have felt unmanageable, distasteful, or difficult to be with. This empowers you to develop a deeper sense of self compassion and self worth and create the framework for you to connect with the core, the beautiful essence of who you truly are, experiencing a deeper confidence in your self, your life, and how you walk through the world.
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Schedule a free healing consult with Arielle to chat about where you are in your journey, your current wellness needs, and to learn about how she may be able to support you!
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After the call, if all feels in alignment and resonant, Arielle will schedule a time for your first session and send over a welcome invite to the client portal to complete needed intake forms.
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Then, the journey begins with your first healing session in person or online, where you will learn more about the healing container, what to expect with our work and begin clarifying and moving towards your healing intentions!
