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How Therapy Helps Frontline Workers Overcome Compassion Fatigue
Frontline workers often face emotional exhaustion. Trauma therapy provides a safe, supportive space to process these experiences, restore boundaries, and rebuild emotional resilience. It helps caregivers recover balance, reconnect with compassion, and sustain their ability to care for others and for themselves.
Trauma Therapy: Celebrating Small Wins in Recovery
Trauma therapy at Healing Voices Psychotherapy encourages clients to celebrate small wins on their journey to recovery, building resilience, emotional support, and lasting empowerment. S
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.
Addressing Childhood Family Trauma As An Adult
Any upsetting event that happens in a family during a child's early years, and has a long-lasting effect on the emotional and psychological health of that child, is childhood family trauma. This can involve neglect, experiencing physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, seeing marital violence, or being raised in a home where substance use or mental illness happened.
How To Cope When Current Events Bring Up Past Trauma
It can be very difficult to avoid events that can bring up past trauma, especially in a world where we can see anything unfiltered by the click of a button on our phones. Whether it is news of major disasters, injustice, or violence, witnessing these events can be overwhelming and bring up traumatic memories.
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