Trauma Treatments

The effect of horrific events happening to us can last a long time. If you've been abused, attacked, in a car accident or some other major event, you can have flashbacks for years afterwards. Soldiers, for example, can hide under tables when they hear a car backfiring, thinking they're back in a war zone. A car's brakes can be enough to send an individual into a severe panic, if that was the last sound they heard just before a major accident.

This effect is commonly known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.

The body has its own way of dealing with trauma, but not everyone benefits from it. Some of us process the event emotionally by dreaming about it, either consciously or subconsciously. However, this doesn't work for others and the event stays in the mind. Simple things can remind the individual of it, fooling the mind into thinking it's happening again and creating an extreme fear reaction.

Treating trauma and PTSD involves breaking the link between the historical event and the present day. The individual can then hear the backfiring car for what it is, rather than creating an instinctive fear reaction.

The treatment involves hypnotherapy to help the subconscious mind deal with the event and see the triggers for what they are, with other techniques like NLP & EFT used to support the therapy. Psychotherapy can also be used for more deep-seated reactions.