Trauma/PTSD
Trauma can occur at anytime in your life, in different forms and cause different reactions. No person should have to deal with trauma or the following PTSD by themselves, which is why we are hear to help. We employ individualized treatments based on current research to assist you in your recovery allowing you to move forward.
A crisis refers not only to a traumatic event or experience, but to a person’s response to the situation. Kari Walton counselling offers crisis counseling as an intervention that can help deal with the crisis by offering assistance and support to the individual.
Kari Walton Counselling can help if:
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- Are having flashbacks (visual or thinking) of your experience
- Recall some or all of the event with great detail, which interferes with everyday life
- Feel disturbed by things that remind you of the event
- You have lost interest in enjoyable activities
- Find it difficult to express emotions/feelings
- You feel like you can’t be close to others
- Experience trouble sleeping or falling asleep
- You are sensitive to others touching you and may jump/startle easily
- You have great difficulty concentrating on anything
- You have more anger and are more irritable than prior to the event
Kari Walton Counselling can help by:
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- Reducing/eliminating the symptoms of the trauma
- Facing the reality of the past event without getting stuck in it
- Working towards focusing from the past to the present
- Working on improving daily functioning
- Gaining skills to prevent recurrence
- Teaching you that your symptoms and reactions are normal reactions
- Helping you to regain the feeling of safety in order to speak about your