Trauma Counselling
Transform Your Life by Processing Stressful Events with Trauma Counselling
Are you struggling with an experience that still troubles you? Or seeking a trauma-informed therapist near you? Meet Adeola, offering a compassion-focused approach and therapeutic models for root-cause issues at Another Hope Counselling Service. A dedicated professional, here to support and guide you as you navigate life’s challenges and find your way towards healing and hope.
Let’s meet for trauma-informed therapy online or in person in Leeds or Manchester. ​
A comprehensive approach to Trauma Counselling
Whether you are seeking to explore issues in the short term or long term, the safe therapeutic environment is here to assist you in achieving your goals. In a collaborative approach with you, we can discover solutions to problematic experiences and make sense of mental health issues to improve your healing journey.
Another Hope Counselling is fundamentally a dedicated trauma-focused service. On offer is a background of deepened understanding of how childhood and adult life 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. Our work can explore details of your unique experiences, integrating a compassionate, Trauma-informed counselling approach, whether as an individual, a couple, or a family system.
Why Trauma Counselling?
Trauma, though a natural response to shocking - known or unknown- impacts the mind and body in ways that can mimic some diagnoses.
Psychotherapy is designed to help individuals who have been through distressing traumatic experiences, including post-traumatic stress disorder, complex PTSD and adverse childhood experiences (ACE)—adult children of sexual abuse. Trauma therapy can help individuals process their experiences, manage their symptoms and develop coping strategies to help them improve and move on towards their recovery, healing, and well-being.​​
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Trauma Treatments are not a one-size-fits-all.​​ As a trauma-informed, integrative therapist, I draw 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, drawing 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
Having worked with a diverse range of clients, trauma can evolve. You will need to allow yourself time to explore these experiences. Each person has potential and resilience, although life’s struggles may have hidden it beneath. As everyone responds to the course of treatment differently, each session invites you to consider, with an open mind, how you process things, sitting with uncomfortable materials in a way that is unique to you. The primary need is to fully engage in the collaborative therapeutic process, as this is a new path that takes its own time, but can be the beginning of exploring and finding resolutions.
I am attending sessions, but I am still unsure.
Understandably, personal challenges can take many forms, including feelings of uncertainty, especially when navigating the unknown or subconscious depth, even during sessions. It requires commitment and a careful, insightful approach. These are sometimes mind-body methods of self-preservation and protection that might seem logical but reflect resistance to new and unconscious defences. While these are normal and can need time and patience, short-term, quick solution-focused sessions may be appealing; we may only be able to work through a piece of 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.