Types of Trauma:

• Acute Trauma: Results from exposure to a singular, overwhelming experience/event such as a single event of abuse, sudden loss, car accident, witnessing violence. 

• Complex Trauma: Results from chronic, multiple, and/or prolonged exposure to overwhelming, compromising, and within the context of an interpersonal relationship such as violence, neglect, or abuse. 

• Developmental Trauma: Results from earlier onset exposure to ongoing or repetitive Trauma throughout childhood. This may include physical assault and abuse, sexual abuse and assault, emotional abuse, neglect, abandonment, and witnessing violence or death. 

• Repetitive Trauma: Results from the exposure to chronic or multiple/or prolonged overwhelming traumatic events, such as living with a chronic illness or terminal illness that requires treatment. 

• Vicarious Trauma: This is an ongoing process of change over time that results from hearing or witnessing other people's suffering and needs. Vicarious Trauma is very similar to direct Trauma as they often result in the same symptoms and how the brain processes the experiences, events, or accounts. 

• Intergenerational Trauma: This is trauma passed down from those who directly experience an incident to the later or subsequent generations. For example, a person who was abused as a child later has a family and children, therefore showing similar patterns or abuse towards their family or the results of their abuse (i.e., emotionally unavailable, inconsistent parenting). 

• Historical Trauma: These are traumatic events or experiences that a large group of people shares with society or even an entire ethnic, community, or national group. Examples of historical trauma include slavery, forced migrations, The Holocaust, and colonization of Native Americans. 

Your traumatic and painful experiences do not define you. 

Trauma can impact our very being, it can shape our personality, and even changes are neurobiology. No two people will experience the same way. Therefore, my approach to Trauma is highly personalized. As a trauma therapist in Fayetteville, NC, your safety is of utmost importance when working together. It can be difficult when you experience Trauma to open up to someone new, and it takes a level of vulnerability and earned trust. Therefore, I work at your pace. During our time together, develop rapport and build a relationship based on respect, trust, and safety. I will always try to walk by your side, not ahead of you or behind you. 

How will Trauma Therapy and PTSD Treatment in North Carolina and Colorado Help?

At our Fayetteville, NC-based counseling practice, I walk by your side while empowering you through psychoeducation on how it impacted your worldview and how trauma impacts our brain and body. I will help normalize your experiences as a trauma-informed therapist. I will empower and help unlock your innate tools to help you navigate your daily life and create a purpose and meaningful life during our time. Once you're ready, we can process your experience in a safe and supportive way through various approaches such as Brainspotting and gentle talk-therapy modalities such as compassion-focused therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and somatic-oriented approaches.  

Begin Therapy at the Virtual Couch in Fayetteville, NC, or Anywhere in North Carolina or Colorado

I help teens and millennials who have experienced trauma, and it has changed their life. This could be trauma from a singular, sudden event, cumulative, or even current ongoing trauma due to oppressions within marginalized communities. Either way, therapy can help you earn your voice back (the voice that has always been there), empower you, and work through areas at your own pace, even when it feels impossible. My online Fayetteville, North Carolina counseling practice offers different anti-oppressive modalities to help you process your painful experiences and trauma. If your initial consultation, you will meet with Patricia, your trauma therapist, to see if we will be a good fit for your therapeutic healing journey. Ultimately my goal for you is to help create a safe space to gently process your pain and trauma by tapping into your body and brain's natural abilities, to help you move through triggers that are holding you back from creating the life you desire. To begin trauma therapy in North Carolina, follow these simple steps:

1. Contact The Virtual Couch 

2. Meet with Patricia, your compassionate trauma therapist

3. Create the life that you desire and no longer suffer in silence

Other Mental Health Service’s at The Virtual Couch in Fayetteville, NC:

Therapy for trauma and PTSD treatment isn’t the only service I provide in my online Fayetteville, NC counseling practice. Other focus areas and mental health services at The Virtual Couch include therapy for anxiety, grief and loss therapy, chronic illness and pain counseling, disability affirming care, depression counseling, and Brainspotting. These services are available via online counseling in North Carolina from Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Greensboro, Charlotte, Asheville, Wilmington, or anywhere in the state . You can also check out The Virtual Couch’s Blog to learn more information related to chronic illness, chronic pain, depression, anxiety, grief & loss, and other therapy related topics. I look forward to meeting you and discussing how we can work together.

Are you still curious?

You can learn more about me and my Fayetteville, NC therapy practice here! This is where you can find out more information about my approach to therapy and my values and beliefs when working together. If you are still curious to learn about online counseling, I encourage you to visit my page about what to expect during a session.