Trauma and PTSD therapists in Oak Grove, Kentucky KY
Trauma and PTSD
Rachel Hiraldo
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC, CCATP
Kudos to you for seeing out help and for making the effort to improve your life! If you're suffering with trauma or PTSD, it's likely that relationship issues, anxiety or depression are also concerns for you. Because I have extensive experience with all of these issues, I'm likely a good fit to support and guide you towards helping you bring resolution to hurtful memories as well as making shifts in your day-to-day life. I am trained in EMDR, which is one of the most empirically supported treatment methods for trauma. I support those who are trying to take a natural, medication-free approach, as well as those who are considering or already utilizing mediation as an additional aid. I love what I do because I love getting to see my clients' lives improve. If you'd like to determine if I could be a good fit for you, please schedule a free 15 minute consult with me (via my website). I do also provide therapy in Spanish.
20 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Lauren Chavis
Psychologist, PsyD
I am trained in TF-CBT and also use exposure techniques, depending on what is the most appropriate.
11 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Karen Baumstark, Ph.D.
Psychologist, Ph.D., CMHIMP, CTACC
None of us can escape some level of trauma; inevitably, it will be a part of life. How much it affects us, however, depends on many factors including the nervous system we were born with, our outer resources, and how much relational support we receive to help us recover from the trauma. Many people do not have access to adequate resources to help them recover from trauma (and this is very subjective and personal, varying from person to person), and the trauma continues to affect them in (sometimes subtle, but still) impactful ways. If certain factors come together, PTSD may develop out of trauma. Often clients feel like they have failed because they can't completely "get over" their PTSD reactions. I have often reminded clients that PTSD is "the gift that keeps on giving". It can be very hard, perhaps impossible, to completely eradicate PTSD reactions, because the reaction is not just of the mind, it is of the whole body. My approach to helping clients with trauma and PTSD involves looking at it holistically and working to understand how the trauma changed you, your reaction across many facets of your life (thoughts, feelings, habits, behaviors, self-care or lack thereof, expectations, how you view the world), and then working on replacing what is harmful with what is helpful. The goal isn't to completely get rid of the PTSD symptoms (which is likely impossible) but rather to dramatically reduce its effect on you, so you can live your best life, and so an occasional symptom breaking through will not derail you.
34 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
SpringSource Psychological Center, PLLC
Psychologist
At SpringSource, we believe in using a combination of exposure and grounding skills-based techniques to help individuals heal from both chronic and episodic traumatic experiences. Our therapists have training in Cognitive Processing Therapy and Written Expressive Therapy as well as other exposure-based techniques.
29 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Jonathan Schmalz
Psychologist, PhD, HSP-P
A trauma-informed approach underlies all of my work as a therapist. I know that many clients come to therapy not specifically because of trauma, but because they feel lonely or inadequate, they are depressed or anxious, or just cannot seem to have the intimacy they crave. Sometimes acknowledging trauma comes later in the therapy work and that is okay. Just know that I trust that you will talk about it when you are ready.
I would like to join you in acknowledging how the past has affected your present and in charting a course to healing that works for you. You may wish to talk about particular pains from the past and you may wish to focus on the future. We will work together to find the balance that is right for you, so that you can live the life that you really want to live.
15 Years Experience