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Trauma Therapy: Helping Adolescents Overcome School Refusal and Avoidance
School refusal in teens is often a sign of deeper emotional distress, not defiance. Trauma-informed therapy can help adolescents uncover the root causes, regulate their emotions, and gradually rebuild the confidence they need to re-engage with school and life.
How Therapy Helps Natural Disaster Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Learn how PTSD therapy can help reduce PTSD symptoms from natural disasters. Symptoms that show up later are still valid and it's never too late to reach out to a therapist.
Trauma Therapy: Why Trauma Survivors Struggle with Time and Deadlines
Explore how trauma impacts time management and deadline struggles in survivors, and explains how trauma therapy supports healing, emotional regulation, and improved daily functioning.
Trauma Therapy: Flashbacks Between Sessions
Flashbacks between sessions can feel overwhelming, but they’re often part of the healing process. Learn how trauma therapy can help reduce flashbacks, build nervous system regulation, and restore a sense of safety.
Learning to Say "No" After Trauma: Why It's Hard and How Therapy Helps
Learn how trauma can impact your ability to say no and how therapy can help you rebuild confidence, set boundaries, and honour your voice again. Support available across Ontario.
Recognizing Trauma Responses in Daily Life
Trauma isn’t always easy to spot. While some responses are clear, others can be subtle, showing up in everyday actions, thoughts, or feelings.
Trauma-Informed Self-Care for Resilience
Taking care of yourself after experiencing trauma can feel overwhelming, but adopting trauma-informed self-care practices can make a world of difference. These practices are designed to honour your experiences and promote healing in a way that feels safe and supportive.
How to Build Coping Skills for Triggers
Trauma triggers can feel overwhelming, catching you off guard and leaving you emotionally drained. Triggers are reminders, whether through sights, sounds, smells, or even emotions of past traumatic experiences.
Trauma and the Body: How Therapy Supports Healing
Trauma doesn’t just impact your emotions, it affects your body, too. Whether from a single traumatic event or ongoing stress, trauma can leave physical marks that make it harder to heal.
Healing Self-Worth After Trauma Through Therapy
Whether the trauma stems from a painful childhood, a single traumatic event, or ongoing stress, it can create feelings of shame, inadequacy, or self-doubt that are hard to shake. These effects don’t just go away on their own, healing takes time, effort, and sometimes professional support.
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