Trauma & PTSD
What Happened to You Was Real. So Is Healing.
Trauma isn't just what happened — it's what happened inside you as a result. The nervous system keeps score long after the event has passed. Trauma rewires how you perceive safety, how you relate to others, and the story you carry about your own worth and resilience.
You may recognize yourself in some of this: trouble sleeping, hypervigilance, intrusive memories, emotional numbness, difficulty trusting, or a persistent sense that you are broken or permanently changed. These are not signs of weakness. They are signs that your system did what it had to do to survive.
At Sanctuary Counseling, we believe healing is not just possible — it's something you deserve.
What Is Trauma?
Trauma includes any experience that overwhelmed your capacity to cope, whether it was a single event or something that accumulated over years. It doesn't have to look catastrophic from the outside to leave a serious mark on the inside.
We work with:
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
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Childhood trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
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Intimate partner violence and domestic violence
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Sexual assault and abuse
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Grief and traumatic loss
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Medical trauma and birth trauma
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Trauma related to systemic or institutional harm
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Spiritual abuse and religious trauma
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Occupational trauma and moral injury
How We Treat Trauma
Trauma treatment at Sanctuary is never rushed and never one-size-fits-all. We work within your window of tolerance, challenging you toward growth without pushing you into retraumatization.
Our clinicians draw from multiple evidence-based frameworks, including:
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Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) — addressing the connections between trauma, thought patterns, and behavior
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) — restructuring unhelpful beliefs that formed in response to trauma
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Psychodynamic Therapy — exploring how past experiences shape present patterns of relating and coping
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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) — working with the relational and emotional dimensions of trauma's impact
We pace the work with you. You are never required to recount every detail to begin healing.
Who You'll Work With
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Al-Nisa works with adults and teens navigating PTSD, grief, anxiety, and mood disruption using CBT, psychodynamic therapy, and Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Rebeccah is TF-CBT trained and works with individuals and families where trauma has affected daily functioning and relational connection.
Fred specializes in trauma recovery for survivors of intimate partner violence, domestic violence, and sexual abuse, with a particular focus on those whose trauma has been dismissed, minimized, or left untreated.