Trauma Therapy in Highland Park, Los Angeles, and throughout California
You're tired of vacillating between self-loathing, resignation, and numbing. The chaos you've experienced in the past has made you both resolute about never putting yourself in a helpless place again and deeply distrusting and anxious. You're hypervigilant because a part of you believes you must always be "on" so you're never caught off guard. But you're worn out and feel defeated from working so hard to barely keep your bearings. The thought of meditating and "tuning into your body" feels excruciatingly awkward because you've relied on your ability to rationalize, intellectualize, and analyze for most of your adult life. You'd like to go beyond the surface, beyond the stuckness, and suspect there must be another way. It can't be this hard. It could be time to consider exploring Trauma Therapy in Los Angeles, CA as a way to navigate these feelings and experiences.
Healing is work, but it doesn't have to be exhausting. You don't need to always be "on" to keep yourself from regressing and being blindsided. You can rest and make healing into a practice of consistently coming back to yourself and calling first dibs on giving yourself the understanding first. Our work together at Therapy on Fig can lead to a more balanced approach to healing.
Healing Trauma isn’t just a conceptual idea but an experiential and emotionally transformative one.
Trauma therapy helps because it assumes your "out-sized," "unhealthy," "toxic," and "shameful" behaviors and reactions are actually appropriate. Even necessary given an impossible set of circumstances and past experiences. We all choose what makes the most sense to us when it's about surviving. By giving yourself the benefit of the doubt, you open up a pathway towards insight into why you do what you do. You will gain information about yourself in ways you've never had. This will be the key to unlocking stuck points. While also becoming the game changer in breaking repeated patterns.
Common reasons for trauma therapy include:
You notice you are becoming an extreme version of yourself. You find yourself a workaholic, rageful, isolating, shutting down, and controlling, panicked.
Struggling with more "high-functioning" symptoms such as malaise, lethargy, melancholy, worries, and loneliness.
You also have physical or somatic signs. Such as having pain in parts of your body, using pleasures such as shopping and food to dampen the pain, or being chronically ill.
You have socially acceptable and sometimes rewarded symptoms. Such as perfectionism, high-achieving, risk avoidance, people-pleasing, and cynicism.
Our Trauma Therapists are Ready to Help you
Our trauma therapists know what it feels like to be gaslit, pathologized, and stigmatized. That's why we approach therapy from a trauma-informed, LGBTQIA+affirming, and non-pathological lens. We are disciplined about our training and always do our self-work. So we bring our authentic and highest capacity into the therapy space. Our therapists are trained in trauma-focused models such as Internal Family Systems (IFS) as well as Polyvagal Theory, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive, and Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO), and Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Collectively, we have worked with countless clients in community mental health, substance abuse clinics, and private practices. We have been dedicating our offerings to Northeast Los Angeles since 2018.
Therapy on Fig's Approach to Trauma Therapy
We understand trauma to be stored in the body. It sometimes is rooted in not just your lifetime but often intergenerationally from your parents and grandparents. Trauma also presents differently, given your cultural and ethnic background. Many of our clients are from immigrant backgrounds, so they may struggle with filial piety in Asian American cultures and migration trauma in Latinx cultures. Often creatives and neurodiverse, we undersatnd ADHD and autism as part of how our brains are naturally wired with its unique giftings and challenges. Considering these historical and contextual factors ,we tailor our approach to fit your temperament, personality, identities, and experiences in the world.
Therapy on Fig's roadmap to healing from trauma
Therapy on Fig's roadmap to healing from trauma involves Therapy on Fig's roadmap to healing from trauma involves the understanding that:
We all have subpersonalities, often described as "parts," and we may notice that they consistently show up from session to session.
These parts of us are not one-dimensional, so they're not merely feelings or mindsets but more like personalities with complexities and nuances.
We focus on the intrapsychic relationship, aka the internal relationship you have with yourselves (different parts of you), hence the model name "Internal Family Systems." So, just like our external relationships with our partner(s), friends, family members, pets, and colleagues, we notice who's voice is the loudest, who's been silent, which parts are teaming up, and which are shut out.
We ALL have the capacity to heal, and our authentic Self isn't cultivated or broken to begin with. Through accessing Self-energy, we can become unburdened by expired beliefs, extreme behaviors, inner wisdom, self-compassion, and self-trust.
We don't work from a diagnosis or pathological framework. Whether it's depression, anxiety, or complex PTSD, we understand that at the heart of what they represent always makes sense, and they are only as extreme as they need to be in order to survive in the world they've been in.
Through Internal Family Systems (IFS), an experiential and process-oriented evidence-based model by Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., we work to unburden parts of you with extreme behaviors, emotions, thoughts, and roles. We liberate these "versions" of yourself into less rigidity. We aim to restore Self-trust. Where you'll have sustainable access to your inner wisdom. As well as agency to navigate your internal and external world effectively. You will know how to navigate internal conflicts. While achieving balance and harmony.
The approach is naturally trauma-informed because we can tune into young parts stuck in the past when an abuse, trauma, or attachment injury first occurred and get to know them just like we would with another person. It also encompasses a spiritual component recognizing each person's core essence, often referred to by other spiritual understandings and insights.
Begin Trauma Therapy with Therapy on Fig in Highland Park and Los Angeles, CA Today!
Embark on a journey of healing and transformation with Trauma Therapy in Los Angeles, CA at Therapy on Fig. Break free from the grip of past experiences, understanding that your behaviors were adaptive survival strategies. Gain insight into your unique journey, unlocking stuck points and fostering emotional transformation. Our caring trauma therapists are here to guide you through this process, providing a safe and compassionate space for your healing. Take the first step towards reclaiming your power and breaking free from repeated patterns. Your transformative healing experience awaits. Follow the steps below to begin your journey toward a brighter, more empowered future.
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Other Therapy Services Offered at Therapy on Fig in Highland Park, Los Angeles, and throughout California
At Therapy on Fig, we provide an extensive array of therapy services to address the impact of trauma through Trauma Therapy in Los Angeles, CA, Highland Park, and throughout California. We also offer other therapeutic services to address other needs such as Anxiety, Depression, and grief. Our commitment is to provide personalized and compassionate care. This empowers you to embark on a transformative journey toward healing. Reach out to Therapy on Fig today to take the first step toward reclaiming your life from trauma.