PTSD Treatment

Compassionate, experienced care for trauma and PTSD.

When you’re seeking PTSD treatment, it helps to start by understanding what PTSD is. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder that can develop after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening or deeply traumatic event, such as combat, a serious accident, abuse, assault, a major health crisis, or a natural disaster.
If you’ve experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, reaching out for help sooner rather than later can make a real difference. These events can overwhelm your usual ability to cope, and working with a therapist gives you a safe, supportive place to process what happened and begin to find steadier ground.

Effects and Symptoms of PTSD

After a traumatic event, it’s not uncommon to feel stressed, upset, or fearful, to have trouble sleeping, or to struggle with intrusive thoughts and difficulty concentrating. For some people these reactions ease over a few weeks. For others, they persist and start to interfere with daily life, work, and relationships. That’s when it’s worth reaching out. You may recognize some of the following:

Intrusive symptoms can include involuntary, recurring memories of the event, nightmares, and flashbacks, where you suddenly and powerfully re-experience what happened. Many people feel on edge, easily startled, irritable, or constantly on guard. Some experience panic attacks. Some feel like they are in “fight-or-flight” which are two of the four trauma responses. 
It’s also common to avoid thoughts, feelings, or reminders tied to the trauma, including people, places, or situations, which can lead to pulling away from others. PTSD often affects mood and thinking, sometimes bringing negative beliefs like “I’m not safe” or “it was my fault,” difficulty feeling positive emotions, and feelings of guilt, shame, anger, or depression.

Not everyone develops PTSD after a difficult or traumatic experience, and some people have a few of these symptoms without the full disorder. Other hard life events, like divorce, childhood trauma, religious trauma, grief, bullying, or a painful breakup, can bring on some of the same reactions. When the pain of the past starts coping in ways that hurt rather than help, that’s a sign it may be time to reach out for support. There are healthier, more lasting ways through, and you don’t have to find them alone.

Trauma and PTSD treatment can help you:

  • Reduce anxiety and depression
  • Learn skills to manage emotions and find calm
  • Process and release painful memories in a safe environment
  • Challenge the negative, self-limiting beliefs that cause distress
  • Lessen the hold the past has on the present
  • Begin to heal and feel like yourself again

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Seeking PTSD Treatment in Boca Raton

PTSD treatment varies depending on the person and the nature of their experience. If you’d like to learn more first, you can read about understanding PTSD. Approaches I use include:

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I provide therapy rather than medication. When medication is part of someone’s care, I’m glad to coordinate with their physician or psychiatrist.

Jody Morgan, LCSW, CCTP, trauma therapist in Boca RatonWhen you’re looking for support, it’s important to choose a therapist with real experience in trauma and PTSD, and one you feel comfortable with. That relationship is where the healing work happens. Jody Morgan, LCSW is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and an EMDR Certified Therapist providing PTSD treatment in Boca Raton and online across Florida.
Call (561) 717-2900 to schedule or book online now.

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