In-person Sessions
Meet in a calm, private space to process trauma and feel more grounded, safe, and connected in your body and relationships.
Virtual Sessions
Get trauma informed support from home while you work toward feeling less triggered, more steady, and more in control of your day to day life.
Trauma therapy offers a warm, supportive space to feel and process past traumas, understanding and changing how they impact you today. Trauma can affect your nervous system, relationships, and sense of safety, even when you feel like you have worked through it. You might notice hypervigilance, shutdown, intrusive memories, difficulty trusting others, or feeling easily overwhelmed.
At Rae Therapy Group, you can expect a trauma-informed approach that moves at your pace. Whether through EMDR, ISTDP, or Psychodynamic Therapy, early sessions will focus on safety, stabilization, and building a solid, trusting therapeutic alliance. Together, we will work to understand your triggers, feel and release suppressed emotions that are stuck in your body, and thoughtfully explore patterns shaped by the past so you can feel more present, more regulated, more embodied, and more in control of your life. Clients often report a decrease in psychosomatic symptoms with trauma therapy.
Trauma therapy offers more than talking about what happened. It helps you understand how trauma lives in your nervous system and how it may be shaping your thoughts, emotions, relationships, and sense of safety. Over time, many people notice fewer triggers, less hypervigilance, better sleep, less somatic symptoms and chronic pain, and a greater ability to stay present in their lives.
As you learn to recognize protective patterns like shutting down, people pleasing, staying on guard, dissociating/numbing out, and intellectualizing, you can begin to make defense mechanisms less automatic. This will support deeper healing by helping you increase trust and intimacy with yourself and others. Many clients experience more self-compassion, stronger boundaries, and a steadier sense of connection as their system learns that the present is safer than the past.
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Trauma therapy is depth therapy that helps you understand and heal the emotional and nervous system impacts of traumatic experiences. It focuses on safety, stabilization, connection, and helping you feel more regulated and present, with a deeper understanding of how your past impacts your current life.
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Trauma can show up as anxiety, irritability, numbness, difficulty trusting, nightmares, intrusive memories, or feeling on edge. It can also appear in relationships as people pleasing, shutting down, fear of conflict, or repeating painful patterns. If your reactions feel bigger than the situation or hard to control, trauma therapy may help.
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Absolutely not. Many people do not remember details of traumatic incidents, and some experience big blocks in memory (especially with childhood attachment trauma). We do not need your trauma to be conscious for therapy to be effective, as trauma often lives in the body and in the depths of the unconscious.
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Trauma therapy should not force you to share or relive anything before you are ready and without consent. First, we will focus on building safety and a strong therapeutic alliance, exploring together the benefits and risks of feeling and releasing trauma centered sadness, anger and grief.
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Your experience matters, and we are against comparing traumas. Trauma is not only about what you experienced, but about how your body, mind and emotional worlds were, and continue to be, impacted. Many people minimize their pain as a defense against feeling it, but if something is affecting your life now, it, and you, deserve care.
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Yes. Trauma often affects attachment, trust, boundaries, feelings of safety, and an overall capacity for intimacy. Therapy can help you understand these patterns and build healthier ways of connecting that feel more safe and secure.
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Therapists at Rae Therapy Group use trauma informed, relational, and depth oriented approaches, often integrating somatic and mindfulness based work to support nervous system regulation and release trauma from the body. Feel free to read and inquire about EMDR, ISTDP, Psychodynamic and Parts Work therapies.
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There is no one timeline. Some people come for focused support around a particular trauma, while others choose longer term work to address attachment issues and explore deeper patterns shaped by past experiences. Your therapist will collaborate with you on goals, and check in with you around treatment regularly.
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Yes. We offer secure virtual sessions for clients who prefer to meet from home or have scheduling or location constraints. Online trauma therapy can be just as effective as in-person therapy, focusing on feeling and processing painful emotions within a safe relationship with your therapist.
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In almost all situations, what you share in therapy is private and protected. There are a few legal and ethical exceptions related to safety, which your therapist will explain clearly so you know what to expect and can feel as safe as possible.
You do not have to carry trauma alone. With the right support, it is possible to feel less triggered, more present in your body, and more connected in your life and relationships.
