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Effective outpatient treatment for PTSD and other trauma disorders
Trauma is a psychological and emotional response to a deeply distressing event, or series of events, that overwhelms your mind’s ability to cope. Trauma may caused by events like experiencing violence, sexual abuse, accidents, war, loss, or witnessing a distressing incident.
Trauma survivors may feel helpless and unsafe, and experience significant long-term emotional and physical symptoms. When these symptoms persist and affect a person’s quality of life, they may develop a mental health condition known as a trauma disorder. The most well-known trauma disorder is PTSD.
Reprieve’s outpatient mental health center in New Jersey offers compassionate and mindful treatment for trauma disorders, like PTSD and CPTSD.
Trauma disorders can be incredibly disruptive to relationships, work and even things a person used to love to do. The symptoms are often hard, if not impossible to control without professional help. Sometimes people who have a trauma disorder are unaware that it is what is causing physical symptoms they’ve lived with for years until they are diagnosed and receive mental health treatment.
Trauma-informed care is a category of mental health treatment that recognizes the wide and varied effects unprocessed trauma can have and applies evidence-based approaches to guide clients toward recovery.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric condition that develops after experiencing a life-threatening, terrifying, or deeply traumatic event. People with PTSD experience severe, persistent stress and fear that can disrupt their daily lives. Common causes include the sudden death of a loved one, violence or combat exposure, natural disasters, emotional, sexual, or physical abuse, and serious accidents.
Unlike PTSD, which typically stems from a single event, C-PTSD is the result of prolonged, repeated trauma spanning months or years. It has a profound impact on a person’s self-identity, emotional regulation, and relationships since it alters their nervous system and their sense of self. Treating both PTSD and C-PTSD requires a comprehensive understanding of the conditions and personalized care designed around the individual’s needs.
Trauma doesn’t just affect your mind; it also impacts your emotions and body. It’s common to experience one or more symptoms that develop immediately or over time. These can include:
PTSD can occur after experiencing a severe trauma, with symptoms typically emerging within three months of the incident and lasting for more than one month. PTSD symptoms are categorized into four groups: hyperarousal, negative mood changes, avoidance, and intrusion, each with its own symptoms. While you may lean toward one dominant group, it’s common to experience symptoms from multiple categories simultaneously.
Trauma disorders can make you feel isolated and alone. Our compassionate team understands the impact they have on your mind, body, and soul and provides comprehensive outpatient treatment for whole-body healing.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) focuses on identifying and challenging negative beliefs tied to trauma for a more balanced perspective.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a specialized form of CBT that targets the relationship between behaviors, feelings, and thoughts to alter patterns that impact healthy functioning.
Stress Inoculation Training (SIT) teaches skills like breathing exercises and relaxation techniques to help manage triggers and anxiety and reduce symptoms.
Group therapy connects you with others who have similar experiences while teaching effective coping strategies.
Individual therapy can help you process traumatic events safely and privately without fear of judgment.
Trauma and PTSD can steal the joy out of your life, causing feelings of hopelessness and despair.
We believe that no one is beyond help and are committed to providing the highest level of care and support on your healing journey.
Our expert team develops a personalized treatment plan, built around your schedule, so you get the care you deserve when you need it most.
There is life beyond trauma. Let us help you find freedom.
A trauma response can be triggered by an external or internal reminder of a past traumatic event. Once the trigger occurs, it bypasses rational thinking, causing a survival reaction in the brain that makes the individual feel as if the original danger is happening right now.
PTSD locks the brain in “fight, flight or freeze” mode, triggering a constant state of alert. Symptoms can manifest in four main ways—intrusive memories, avoidance, negative mood or thinking, and hyperarousal.
No, not all trauma is PTSD. Trauma is a physical or emotional response to a life-threatening or terrifying event and typically only lasts for a short while. PTSD is a specific mental health diagnosis affecting around 6% of people who’ve experienced trauma and can’t process it naturally. To get a PTSD diagnosis, symptoms must last for more than a month and severely interfere with your daily life.
Yes, trauma-informed treatment, including talk therapy and approaches like EMDR can be highly effective for PTSD and can lead to significant reduction in symptoms.
While both PTSD and C-PTSD are trauma-related mental health conditions, C-PTSD is due to repeated and prolonged trauma over months or years, while PTSD generally stems from a single event.
Healing is possible; you don’t have to struggle in silence. The experienced team of caring professionals at Reprieve Behavioral Health is here to walk beside you with the tools, support, and guidance you need to succeed.
Contact us today to learn more about how we can help.