What is Trauma Therapy? What is Trauma-informed Care?
Trauma Therapy and Trauma-informed Care are different, although related, concepts.
Trauma Therapy is specifically designed to treat the actual consequences of trauma.
Trauma-informed Care is focused on improving your all-around wellness rather than treating trauma-specific symptoms.
Orlando Premier Psychiatry Behavioral Health is a trauma-informed outpatient treatment center with providers who are equipped to support you as you process and release trauma. Orlando Premier Psychiatry therapists are trained in evidence-based trauma therapy modalities, such as Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART).
A traumatic experience is a singular event, a series of events, or a set of circumstances that hinders your ability to cope with the stress it produces, leaving you feeling unsafe, vulnerable, and out of control. The experience can be emotionally or physically harmful, or both.
These experiences threaten your life or body, invoking intense feelings of helplessness, powerlessness, and/or terror. Without protective supports, traumatic experiences can have devastating and sometimes lasting effects on your physical, mental, and spiritual health.
It’s important to receive support when you have lived through traumatic experiences and have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
How do Trauma Therapy and Trauma-informed Care work?
Our therapists offer a variety of different psychotherapy models to individualize your care:
1. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
2. Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
This evidence-based treatment is effective in treating trauma response in children and teens as well as providing support for parents or caregivers. You do not need to have a post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis to benefit from TF-CBT.
Research shows that TF-CBT can successfully treat symptoms associated with single, multiple, or complex traumatic experiences, complex post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder because it focuses specifically on the impacts of trauma.
3. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward healing. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound continues to cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.
4. Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
ART has roots in and includes elements of existing evidenced-based modalities.
The treatment program incorporates memory visualization techniques that are enhanced using horizontal eye movements, as well as memory reconsolidation, in which new information is incorporated into existing memories.
