Set Apart Life & Trauma Counseling is here to help:
Past trauma (childhood experiences, car accidents, etc)
Emotional issues such as sadness, worry, & anger
Mental barriers/fears/insecurities
Job trauma (EMT, firefighter, etc)
Procrastination/hesitancy in moving forward with desired goals
Issues with stage fright, creative blocks, & sports performance
Past Trauma
Trauma can include anything that disrupts our emotional state, functioning, or physiology. Childhood experiences such as abuse, injuries, or difficult/unexpected events can be stored in our systems as trauma. Other examples include experiencing a car accident, being victim of a crime, or witnessing a tragedy. Trauma therapy can help process through traumatic experiences, release related physiological activation, and help heal and restore balance to a person’s entire system.
Job Trauma
Some jobs expose workers to trauma regularly and in a unique way. First responders, such as firefighters, EMTs, and police officers, often face situations while on duty where the lives of themselves or others are at risk. Not only can exposure to these situations start to feel burdensome, but the worker’s own problematic personal history can become entangled and start to manifest in unhelpful ways. Therapy can help sort out and process through both personal and job-related trauma, facilitating healing that can help first responders be at their optimal level of functioning, which allows them to best serve in their role of helping others. It’s possible to heal the helper!
Personal Growth & Development
Many of us experience some type of fear or insecurity in life, such as performance or test anxiety, hesitation to move forward toward our goals, or even procrastination in daily tasks. Trauma interventions can help you move past uncertainty in your personal and professional life by helping dislodge barriers that result in that “stuck” feeling. Let us help you function and perform at your personal best and boldly move forward!
Creativity Expansion
Authors, painters, public speakers, actors, and other artists often find themselves “overthinking” or otherwise trying to express their talents through their conscious brains. They tend to agonize over this loss of “flow,” pining away for the times they have lost themselves in their artistry. Trauma modalities can help release the clog in the frontal lobe, which often is caused by some negative experience such as criticism from self or others, real or perceived rejection, or personal failure. These experiences can manifest as a creative block, hesitation, stage fright, or other disruption to the creative process. Once the barrier is dislodged, the artist once again can enjoy the free flow of talent and creativity!
Sports Performance
Most athletes find themselves second guessing their abilities, experiencing a glitch in a skill or movement they once could execute without hesitation, or feeling self-conscious at some point in their careers. These issues often negatively impact sports performance and tend to be connected to trauma deep in the athlete’s system, where pep talks and other surface interventions cannot fully help. Trauma therapy targets experiences stored deep in the system, helps process it, and aids in releasing the physiological activation associated with the trauma. This results in the athlete returning to peak flow, where the skills and movements once again are executed seemingly without thinking and are performed within the athlete’s “sweet spot.”
