Trauma and PTSD therapists in Wildwood, New Jersey NJ
Trauma and PTSD
Dr. Natassia Johnson
Psychologist, Ph.D., LPC
Traumatic experiences can breed feelings of confusion, sadness, anger, and shame. Let's slowly look at the parts of these experiences that often go unspoken and work on being resilient in the face of them.
1 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Chuck Gray, Ph.D.
Psychologist
Rather than limit counseling to only one approach, I offer my clients what I think is best specifically for them from a wide array of expert approaches in my marriage and other counseling. In addition to leading seminars to train other professionals in marriage counseling, I have benefited by receiving extensive professional training from most of the leading marriage counseling experts in the country, including but not limited to John Gottman, Susan Johnson, John Gray, Harville Hendrix, Virginia Satyr, Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson, Gary Brainard, Frank Pittman, Shirley Glass, Janice Abrahms Spring, and Neil Jacobson. In conducting counseling, I am fortunate to be able to choose from numerous resources including principles from Gottman's research, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Mars & Venus Counseling, Imago Therapy, Positive Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Systems Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Rogerian Therapy, Integrative Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Reality Therapy, Rational Emotive Therapy, Gestalt Techniques, NLP, and EMDR. I also offer counseling tools that I personally developed here in Houston.
37 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Dr. Trey Cole
Psychologist, Psy.D., ABPP, DAAETS
Have you suffered from traumatic experiences that overwhelmed your ability to cope? Do you feel disconnected from others, re-experience those experience when you don't want to, or think you may never be able to move forward in your life? If so, please reach out so that we may work together to find healing.
17 Years Experience
Trauma and PTSD
Alyssa Kushner
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Trauma is the lasting response that impacts you psychologically, emotionally, and physically after a distressing event. Complex trauma comes from multiple exposures to various traumas over time. Both can impact your nervous system and body’s ability to cope and regulate. Trauma can play a major role in why you behave, think, and feel the way you do. I will bring body-up somatic approaches first to make sure you have the resources and skills to talk about and heal trauma. We will work together to learn what your trauma responses look like and have ways to get back into a state of safety. I also prioritize and understand the importance of having a safe and trusting therapeutic relationship first - before opening up. I bring a trauma-first, somatic, and holistic lens. I am also trained in EMDR and can use as part of the treatment plan if needed.
6 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