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Trauma and PTSD Treatment

“Only when we are no longer afraid, do we begin to live.”

Dorothy Thompson

Has A Traumatic Event Affected Your Ability To Feel And Function Well?

Have you experienced a traumatic event that continues to affect how you feel and function?
Do you feel highly anxious, stressed, or easily triggered—even long after the event?
Do you feel stuck in anxiety, depression, or emotional overwhelm?
Are you struggling to perform well at work or in your personal life?
Do you feel like time should have healed things, but you’re still unable to move on?
Do you feel confused, frustrated, or unsure how to find peace again?
Are fear, anxiety, and stress so strong that it feels like nothing will help?

You may want to get back to “normal,” but feel like you no longer know what normal is.

Do you want to feel in control again?

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Text: 623-688-5115

Many People Struggle To Move Past Traumatic Events

Traumas or dramatic changes can significantly alter how you feel and function. Intense and difficult emotions may linger long after the trauma occurred. It’s not uncommon to experience emotional shifts in your daily life and to become easily agitated or triggered.

Thankfully, trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) counseling can help you process the past in a constructive and positive way. Most specifically, there is a practice called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) that has been clinically proven to help people resolve the emotional impacts of trauma. EMDR originally surfaced as a therapy treatment for alleviating trauma-specific distress. This therapy technique can help you learn to let go of distressing areas you may be holding within yourself to make room for positivity in your life. With openness and the right therapist, trauma and PTSD therapy with EMDR can help your body rediscover its ability to heal.

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Trauma And PTSD Treatment Can Help Relieve You Of The Past

Your body is designed to protect you. When you experience a trauma your body creates a protective response. This response acts as a warning signal to safeguard you from similar trauma in the future. The response may make you feel nervous or uneasy and can be triggered by something as simple as typical everyday sounds and sights.

When traumas are left untreated, emotional triggers can be detrimental to your wellbeing instead of a safeguard. Your Crossroad’s therapist can help you recognize what triggers are getting in the way of functioning in life comfortably and guide you through EMDR and the healing process that accompanies it.

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Treating trauma requires a three-pronged approach. With the support and guidance of your Crossroad’s therapist, you will first address your past memories, then examine the current disturbances in your life, and finally conclude with what future actions can be taken to move forward. EMDR is a complementary therapy technique that assists the unfolding of these memories in a logical way so that you are able to process them thoroughly. It uses stimulating rapid eye movement while talking you through past disturbances to help bridge the gap between your brain’s memory networks and the present, allowing you to re-process the trauma in a constructive, self-healing way.

This process opens up the past issues in a beneficial way and allows you to learn and grow from difficult experiences. Once the trauma is cleared, you can move past the protective trigger that puts you on edge and welcome in a more appropriate, non-threatening, emotional response.

Benefits of Trauma & PTSD Treatment

As you begin working through trauma, you may start to notice changes such as:

Feeling less reactive to triggers and reminders
Reduced anxiety, fear, and emotional overwhelm
Improved ability to regulate emotions
Better sleep and overall daily functioning
Increased sense of safety and control
Greater clarity and understanding of past experiences
Reduced intensity of intrusive thoughts or memories
Feeling more present and engaged in your life

Over time, these changes can help you feel more grounded, stable, and able to move forward with confidence.

What we Offer

Our Therapeutic Approaches

We use evidence-based approaches tailored to your needs, including:

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

Helps process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional intensity.

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Internal Family Systems

Supports healing by working through different parts of yourself affected by trauma.

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Attachment-Based Therapy

Addresses attachment ruptures by fostering a secure therapist-client bond, using techniques like inner-child work and mindfulness to build trust.

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Beyond Trauma: A Program for Transformation and Authentic Healing

In addition to our traditional trauma therapy sessions we also offer intensive trauma counseling. Our intensive trauma therapy program consists of both private trauma therapy intensives anywhere from 2, 3, or 4 days and the Beyond Trauma Group Therapy program. The benefit of intensive trauma therapy is that in a relatively short period of time an individual will experience what many have come to call, “post-traumatic growth.”

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Start Your Healing Journey…

We have offices in Phoenix, Anthem, Scottsdale, and online throughout Arizona. To schedule a session, or for a 15 minutes phone consultation with a licensed therapist, call 623-680-3486, text 623-688-5115, or email using the “contact us” button.

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