We see you and know how brave it is to seek help when trauma has told you to shut down, hide, or stay strong.
We specialize in trauma therapy for deeply feeling, resilient people who are ready to function better and feel alive again.
Reclaim your
sense of safety, trust,
& emotional freedom.
At Heart Space Counseling Center, we specialize in trauma-informed therapy designed to help you process and heal from painful past experiences. Whether you're coping with:
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childhood trauma
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PTSD
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complex trauma
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emotional abuse
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or the lasting impact of toxic relationships,
our experienced counselors combine a safe, supportive space with the most effective, up-to-date, and evidence-based approaches centered on the neuroscience of safety and relationship for you to experience deep, active, real healing.
Trauma changes everything.
Trauma doesn't always stem from big, dramatic events. It's the result of anything that overwhelms your nervous system and leaves a lasting imprint. That may have been emotional abuse, neglect, betrayal, loss, chronic invalidation, a traumatic relationship, a childhood where you had to grow up too fast, or something that seemed small but left a big impact. It leaves people feeling anxious, depressed, numb, shut down, angry, or "too much" for the world.
Trauma responses are survival responses to past wounds happening in real time. This often looks like:
Overreacting or shutting down completely
Feeling unsafe even when nothing's wrong
Chronic anxiety, emotional dysregulation or panic attacks
Depression and dissociation
Fear of abandonment, rejection, or failure
Trouble trusting others or yourself
Perfectionism, people pleasing, or emotional numbness
PTSD and Complex PTSD
Feelings of shame, low self-esteem, and negative beliefs about self and others
How We Help:
Our Trauma Specialties
Trauma-informed counseling is more than "just talking about it." We assist with rewriting your story, rewiring your nervous system, and restoring safe relationship through patience, depth, and tools that honor the whole of who you are.
Emotionally Focused Trauma Therapy
Relationally-informed trauma healing through repeatedly experiencing safety in emotionally responsive connection, which allows patterns shaped by past injury to heal as the mind, heart, and body learn to trust in predictable, safe relational support
Narrative Exposure Therapy
Helps you tell the story of your life in a clear, grounded way, spending focused time with difficult experiences so they can be placed in context, understood as part of your past, and no longer feel like they are happening all over again
At Heart Space, we help you work through the emotional, neurological, & somatic impact of trauma with deep care and proven tools.
Experience the Healing Benefits
You've carried this long enough. Your story deserves to be heard and healed.
Release Your Shame.
This is your chance to finally let go of the ways you beat yourself up because of a story someone else told you about you are. No more ruminations. No more shame spirals. We will help you work this all the way through so you can walk with the confidence of someone who feels worthy, lovable, and whole.
Feel How YOU Want.
Struggling to manage emotions (loudly or quietly) is one of the most challenging impacts of trauma. This work is deeply emotional, but you'll finally learn to "do feelings" in a way that creates choice, safety, and empowerment. You'll start noticing what's coming up, how deep you want to go and when rather than triggers choosing for you.
Get Your "Spark" Back.
Sometimes after lots of trauma and hardship, it can feel as though we've lost parts of ourselves that may never come back. We KNOW with certainty the spark is still in there. Our brains are moldable and capable of rewiring for healing. Time to let everything go and feel like the you you want to be - your favorite YOU!
Cultivate True Self Love.
There's a little kid or younger version of you in there that never got what he or she needed. This work will help you, maybe for the first time, finally give that little kid the love they always deserved! You'll learn just how simple it actually is to connect with our own capacity for self-love, week after week, until you can feel it and believe it every day, on your own.
Can you imagine?
Improve Your Relationships.
Struggling with trauma while trying to maintain healthy relationships is so hard! Your mind knows everything is fine but your body is telling you you're not safe and reminding you to fight or run. This work settles the nervous system and changes the way we think and feel about relationships, paving the way for connection that was never before possible.
Release the Pain of the Past.
Holding the story and the label and the triggers and the weight of trauma survival is exhausting. It's like carrying a heavy bag you can't set down until the inevitable collapse. This work will allow you to make sense of your story, put it in context and assign responsibility to those who were actually responsible, and finally get to CHOOSE an identity that isn't wrapped in pain and heartbreak.
The Neurobiology of Trauma
When we experience trauma, our brains and bodies shift into survival mode. The amygdala goes into hypervigilance. The prefrontal cortex, responsible for logic and regulation, can shut down. The nervous system becomes dysregulated, constantly preparing for danger or collapse.
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It rewires our bodies, hijacks our thoughts, and distorts our sense of self.
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It makes us question if we're overreacting or just "too sensitive."
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It keeps us stuck in survival mode long after the threat is gone.
In trauma therapy, we help you rewire those patterns. Not just cognitively, but emotionally and physically.
