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post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD)

What is trauma counselling?

Therapy for PTSD in Bondi, Sydney, Bondi Junction, Australia

If you have being exposed to a life-threating traumatic experience, either by: have experienced or witness it, or you have learn about something traumatic or someone used to talk to you about it constantly, and you are experiencing one or more of the following symptoms:

  • Recurring and intrusive memories about it.
  • Dreams/nightmares.
  • Distress in or outside the body.
  • Dissociation
  • Body reactions.

And you tend to avoid trauma-related thoughts or feelings, and external reminders of the traumatic experience, you might be dealing with PTSD.

Those symptoms are usually accompained by:

  • Inhability to recall/remember details of the experience.
  • Negative beliefs about self and the world.
  • Exaggerated blame of self and others for causing the trauma. 
    • Negative emotional state.
    • Loss of interest.
    • Feeling detached/isolated.
    • Inhability to feel positive emotions.

    Besides, what was mentioned previously, you might also feel like your behaviour has changed and continued after a month of experienced the traumatic experience, and you have become:

    • Irritable, always angry or you are recurring to aggressive behaviour.
    • Your behaviour has become reckless or destructive.
    • You are hypervigilant. 
    • You are experiencing difficulties concentrating or sleeping. 
Therapy for PTSD in Sydney, with a psychologist, in Bondi Beach, Bondi Junction
Therapy for PTSD in Sydney, Bondi, Bondi Junction with Psychologist
post traumatic stress disorder ptsd help with therapy in Bondi, Sydney

PTSD is marked by an inability to recover after going through or witnessing a profoundly distressing event. It can persist for an extended period, spanning months or even years, and certain triggers may evoke memories of the trauma, leading to intense emotional and physical responses.

Some common symptoms encompass nightmares or flashbacks, avoidance of situations associated with the traumatic event, heightened sensitivity to stimuli, and feelings of anxiety or depression.

Treatment options involve various forms of psychotherapy, such as CBT-Trauma focused, Exposure Therapy and Cognitive Exposure Therapy, which we can help with.

I offer Trauma Counselling in Sydney (face-to-face), as well as online therapy, regardless of your location!

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