Global Therapy

Trauma is a response to an intensely stressful event or situation. The effects can be long lasting, but healing is possible.

Traumatic events can happen at any age and have lasting effects on your physical and mental well-being.

Trauma relies on our own perception of danger and safety. This means different people can go through the same stressful experience and have different trauma responses.

Because trauma depends on an individual’s emotional response, many different circumstances can count as trauma. Therapists often use the ideas of “big-T” trauma and “little-t” trauma to help us understand how seemingly small things can traumatize us.

Experiencing or witnessing trauma in childhood can have lasting effects on a person’s development. Certain mental health disorders and developmental disorders may develop in response to trauma, especially if a child can’t access treatment, resources, and support and can’t process the trauma in a healthy way.

With proper treatment and social support — especially through trauma therapy - many people can overcome these negative effects, experience an improved quality of life, and move toward healing.