Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy
A chronic sense of unease. A relationship that always collapses in the same way. The inability to rest. A sharp fear of abandonment. A constant readiness for something to go wrong. These are the fingerprints of trauma, not wounds we remember clearly, but symptoms we live with daily. Trauma does not have to define us. It does not have to be our final story. Trauma-informed psychotherapy can help you to heal.
How Can Therapy Help You With Trauma or PTSD?
Healing trauma is not quick work. It’s not about forgetting the past, but rather starting to notice how much of it we are still unconsciously living. We begin to gently examine the stories we tell ourselves; that we are too much, that people always leave, that we are unlovable. In therapy, we start to see these are protective strategies that once made sense but are no longer serving us. We connect the dots between mind and body and the processing happens.
The Body Remembers What The Mind Cannot
One of trauma’s cruellest features is its generalisation. From one specific injury, the mind creates global rules. “People are unsafe.” “My needs are too much.” “Mistakes mean punishment.” “My feelings cause harm.” What began as a local wound becomes a lens through which all of life is seen. To heal trauma is not to “erase” the past. It is to finally bring it into focus, so that we are no longer living in its shadow. Trauma-informed psychotherapy begins here; not with fixing, but with witnessing. Not with rushing toward solutions, but looking at things with gentle, steady curiosity. This kind of therapy makes room for the parts of us that had to go quiet, the parts that braced, the parts that fled. It listens to symptoms as if they were messages from the past and trusts that the body never overreacts without reason.
The Journey to Healing
One of trauma’s defining features is that it is stored in the body as fragments; in sensation, in reaction. This is why we often can’t “think” our way out of it. Trauma colours how we interpret reality. It shapes how close we let people get. It tells us how safe the world is or isn’t. We begin to relate to new experiences as if they were old ones, without realising we’re doing it. We might feel unsafe when there’s no danger, unloved in the face of care, or perpetually on edge even in calm settings. In these moments, we’re not responding to what’s happening now, but to what happened then, long before our adult self had words or perspective to make sense of it. Healing doesn’t begin by forcing ourselves to “move on.” It begins with remembering safely, in the presence of someone who can help us hold what we could not hold alone. Trauma-informed psychotherapy offers a space for this.
The Power of Sensory Memory
Healing requires more than language. It requires contact with the body and the senses. Before we revisit the past, we need stability in the present. The therapeutic relationship provides this ground, offering consistency, attunement, and a sense that someone is truly, calmly with us. A trauma-informed approach is paced, relational, and above all, safe. It allows the client to build trust with themselves, and with the therapist, before exploring the deeper roots of their fear, anger, or grief; it recognises how the body remembers. It weaves in breathing, grounding, and gentle sensory tracking. It listens for what cannot be said and trusts that even the subtlest signals are stories waiting to be told.