Trauma Counselling
Transform Your Life by Processing Stressful Events with Trauma Counselling
Are you seeking support for childhood trauma for adults near you, or a trauma-informed therapist nearby? Meet Adeola Iluyomade at Another Hope Counselling Service, a dedicated professional offering trauma-informed therapy for a range of issues, with a compassionate approach.
Adeola here guides you as you navigate life’s challenges, helps you understand root causes, and enables you to find your way toward healing and hope. Join our online nationwide sessions, or attend in-person therapy in Leeds or nearby in Manchester and Yorkshire.​
A comprehensive approach to Trauma Counselling
Whether you are seeking to explore issues in the short or long term, the safe, therapeutic environment is here to help you achieve your goals. Through a collaborative approach, we can identify solutions to challenging experiences and make sense of mental health issues to support your healing journey.
Another Hope Counselling is fundamentally a dedicated trauma-focused service. Adeola here offers a deep understanding of how life’s traumatic experiences can influence psychological, biological, and social development. For instance, attachment Trauma. These can manifest as Mental health diagnoses, unexplained pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, bowel issues, and more. ​​
Trauma can stem from even the smallest events
As Dr Gabor Mate puts it, Trauma is not the physical events, but it is the wound sustained inside as a result of what happened to you. Together in session, we can explore details of your unique experiences. Our work can involve integrating therapeutic models to help you. This is alongside a compassionate, Trauma-informed counselling approach, whether you are an individual, part of a couple, or a family system.
Why Trauma Counselling Here?
Trauma, though a natural response to shocking - known or unknown- impacts the mind and body in ways that can mimic some diagnoses. Does it leave you struggling with an experience that continues to trouble you?
Another Hope Counselling and Psychotherapy Service is committed to helping individuals who have been through distressing, traumatic experiences. It includes post-traumatic stress disorder, complex PTSD and adverse childhood experiences (ACE)—adult children of sexual abuse and more. In this service, Trauma therapy can help individuals process their experiences, manage symptoms, and develop coping strategies to support their recovery, healing, and well-being.​​​
Trauma Treatments are not a one-size-fits-all
As a trauma-informed, integrative therapist, Adeola draws on a diverse and rich resource and knowledge to provide a safe and supportive therapeutic space to process emotional experiences. Depending on your needs, our work can be trauma-focused and draw on a wide range of therapeutic approaches, including Psychodynamic Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Relational Therapy, among others.
Trauma Therapy Treatment Plan - A Glimpse of the Therapeutic Process
With an extensive experience of working with a diverse range of clients and a commitment to evidence-based practice, Adeola at Another Hope Counselling helps clients navigate traumatic experiences recognising that trauma can improve over time. You need to give yourself time to explore these experiences as they may come up for you. Each person has potential and resilience that life’s struggles may have concealed from one's awareness. And everyone responds to treatment differently. Each session encourages you to explore how you process information or sit with uncomfortable material in a way that is unique to you. The main aim is to actively engage in the collaborative therapeutic journey, as this is a new experience with the potential to help you create new thought pathways. Some may progress swiftly, while others require more time. It is a process unique to you; it can mark the start of exploring and discovering solutions
I want to attend sessions, but I am still unsure.
There is no better time to start than now. Each of our session in this service is confidential and can quickly become trauma-focused. Sessions aims to nurture an open reflection to improve mindset and enhance your self-awareness. Understandably, personal challenges can take various forms. It can include feelings of uncertainty, especially when coming close to, or exploring the unknown or subconscious parts of self that hold a painful memory that may have been blocked off. This process requires dedication to see you through and a thoughtful, insightful approach. Some of the constraints may be subconscious self-protection strategies that seem logical but can hinder gaining new awareness. While these responses are common, it may require time and patience to overcome. Short-term, solution-focused sessions can be appealing; we might only be able to address a small portion of the material at a time.
Here are some signs that might show it’s time to explore Therapy
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Flashbacks or intrusive memories of the traumatic events, including physical abuse, sexual violence and rape.
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Avoidance of places, people, or activities that remind you of the trauma
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Unexplainable tearfulness - Eyes watering and tension in different parts of the body.
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Feeling anxious, depressed, or irritable and disconnected
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Difficulty sleeping or having nightmares
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Experiencing unpredictable feelings and emotions, with a strong urge and need to do something to numb emotional pain physically.
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Highly functioning with socially acceptable behaviours, but secretive with some form of addiction or compulsive behaviour
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Struggling with substance abuse or other harmful coping strategies
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If any of these symptoms resonate with you, whether physical or internalised, by numbing or with an addictive behaviour, Trauma counselling may be a helpful resource for you.
Trauma and complex PTSD counselling can offer a healing journey. Recovery can be unique but achievable. Another Hope Counselling’s trauma-focused service values providing a creative, safe space that empowers you to take control and move your recovery forward with confidence.