Trauma and PTSD therapists in West Hollywood, California CA
Trauma and PTSD
Dr. Ingrid Solano
Psychologist, PhD
Making sense of trauma, and the impact of trauma, can be accompanied by the fear that you will never be able to overcome the distress you feel when you remember the experience or when those intrusive nightmares, flashbacks, and negative thoughts come crashing into your awareness. Through trauma-focused therapy we reclaim confidence, hopefulness, intimacy, safety, self-esteem, and trust. I have specific expertise in treating trauma symptoms related to sexual assault, intimate partner violence and emotional abuse, military sexual trauma (MST), childhood and complex sexual trauma, violence, and combat trauma experienced by Veterans. These experiences can impact physical health, and daily life.
Many people will experience a form of trauma in their lives. Trauma can come with feelings of shame, anger, and confusion. Posttraumatic stress is a normal human reaction to traumatic events. However, for some individuals this stress persists and interferes with their ability to live the life that they want. I work with complex cases that sometimes include dissociation, numbness, anger, risky behaviors, and years of avoidance. The treatments I provide are the most powerful and effective treatments available for these conditions. I have expertise in individual, as well as relationship (i.e., with a partner) based trauma-focused therapies. I have experienced many times how these treatments help people gain new perspectives about what happened to them, develop a sense of empowerment over their trauma, and improve their lives. These treatments can also be helpful if you feel stuck following experiences of trauma, even if you don’t have PTSD. If you’re unsure whether you want to discuss your trauma, or unsure which approach feels like a good fit for you, we can discuss your concerns. We will explore trauma-focused care that builds upon your current support, coping skills, and personal experience. I primarily employ time-limited, evidence-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (CBT) such as CPT, PE, and CBCT. (See Individual and Couples Therapy based Trauma-Focused Services.)
In psychological literature, stressors are defined as events and conditions (e.g., losing a job, death of an intimate partner) that cause change and require that the individual adapt to the new situation or life circumstance. Stress processes can include the experience of prejudice events, expectations of rejection, hiding and concealing your authentic self, internalized homophobia, intimate partner violence, discrimination, and ameliorative coping processes that have become bad, ineffective habits. These experiences can be particularly painful when there is social pressure to conceal your experiences, or stigma. I address what it’s like to have no one to talk to about these experiences, and any distress that comes from having nowhere to do this work safely. I practice LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy that considers the impact of minority stress and chronic stress responses. Aside from these stress processes, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and heterosexuals who report any same-sex sexual partners over their lifetime, have greater risk of childhood maltreatment, interpersonal violence, trauma to a close friend or relative, and unexpected death of someone close.
11 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Jonathan Kruger Therapy
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Trauma affects our lives in many, many ways. There are complex traumas which occur when an individual endures ongoing, long-term and repetitive abuse of some nature- be it physical, sexual or emotional. Simple traumas, while limited to a single event, are just as devastating for the emotional well-being of the patient. Trauma can be debilitating, lead to addictions, cause unconscious behavior patterns, be completely repressed, and significantly impact our interpersonal and familial relationships.
My therapeutic approach to trauma, offers a nurturing, systematic, and comforting methodology that quietly explores the nature of the trauma in a safe and gentle environment.
11 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Michael Pezzullo
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I utilize evidenced-based practices, including trauma-informed cognitive behavioral therapy and cognitive processing to treat post-traumatic stress and complex trauma.
7 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Lauren Blalock
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Trauma can consume our lives, making even everyday tasks much more challenging. You don’t have to continue to suffer with sleepless nights, anxiety, intrusive thoughts and fear, and much more. I have received extensive trauma training that allows me to work from a trauma informed place, ideally reducing your unhelpful automatic responses, incorporating the role your nervous system plays in these responses and allowing for you to tolerate processing the trauma. I am also trained in EMDR, a therapeutic modality create specifically for trauma which might be ideal for you. Contact me today for a free consultation to see how I might be able to help.
8 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
David Strah
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
I completed a year-long trauma and somatic training and can use EMDR for clients suffering from trauma and PTSD
Trauma and PTSD
Kailah DeJurnett
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
PTSD makes you feel stressed and afraid after the danger is over. It affects your life and the people around you. PTSD starts at different times for different people. Signs of PTSD may start soon after a frightening event and then continue. Other people develop new or more severe signs months or even years later. Trauma can be different things to different people: (experiencing natural disasters, childhood abuse and neglect, survivor of domestic violence, etc)
10 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Carl H. Shubs
Therapist, Ph.D.
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39 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Paula E. Bruce, Ph.D. & Associates, A Psychological Corporation
Psychologist, Clinical and Forensic Psychology
All the clinicians in the practice have had significant experience in working with trauma and PTSD and are skilled in helping clients work through trauma, including childhood sexual abuse, adult sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and other life trauma. We also conduct forensic evaluations in civil litigation matters relating to trauma and abuse.
28 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Dr. Cassidy Blair
Psychologist, B.A., M.A., Psy.D.
PTSD represents a unique set of causative circumstances which are accounted for in the creation of a treatment plan directed at the specific needs of the client through such approaches as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and psychodynamic therapy.
24 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Shadi Souferian
Psychologist, Psy.D
Traumatic events can have long-term effects on an individual. When someone experiences a traumatic event, the primitive, part of their brain becomes overactive, which can lead to a persistent state of hypervigilance. Therapy can help process the trauma a, become aware of the triggers that get set off because of the trauma, and learn skills to self-regulate, self-soothe, and overcome the grip the trauma has on you.
24 Years Experience