Is This What You're Going Through? How Trauma Can Affect Your Life
Trauma can deeply affect your emotions, thoughts, and daily functioning. It can cause distressing symptoms such as:
• Persistent anxiety
• Feelings of guilt or shame
• Intrusive thoughts
• Emotional dysregulation
• Difficulty trusting others
• Sleep-related issues
If you struggle with those symptoms, trauma therapy can help you recover from past trauma, heal long-term, and move forward with your life. We provide both in-person (in our Anchorage office) and virtual (available across Alaska, Oregon & Idaho) trauma counseling.
Discover Trauma Therapy and Overcome Your Difficult Past
Trauma therapy provides a safe and structured space to process painful experiences. We offer a compassionate space for you to process difficult life events, painful memories, and the effect these can have on your life.
We help our clients explore and process complex emotions in a safe and shame-free space and find deeper meaning amidst their pain. We emphasize trust and resilience before exploring challenging territory, working collaboratively to bring new perspectives and insight for a higher quality of life.
Attending therapy for trauma recovery is a positive step towards reducing triggers, improving sleep, and understanding the deeper impacts of difficult life events.
With our help, you will:
• Address difficult triggers and memories and improve your sleep and mood.
• Receive trauma-informed care for a wide range of traumatic experiences: Sexual, childhood, relational, vicarious, and acute events.
How Will Trauma Therapy Help You?
Trauma therapy allows you to return to a peaceful state where you can feel safe and engaged in the present rather than being constantly affected by the past. With our support, you will restore stability and a sense of safety. We use three main therapeutic approaches to help our clients who struggle with trauma: EMDR (Eye movement and desensitization reprocessing), IFS (Internal Family Systems), CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). You can find out more about each of these below.
EMDR, IFS & CBT: Our Three Highly Effective Approaches to Trauma Therapy in Anchorage
EMDR therapy in Anchorage
EMDR stands for Eye Movement and Desensitization Reprograming, and is an evidence-based therapy approach designed to help you process traumatic memories in a safe and structured way. It’s one of the most effective approaches to trauma therapy and reducing the emotional intensity around troublesome events. EMDR helps your brain reprocess past experiences so they become less activating in your day-to-day life.
What can you expect from EMDR therapy?
EMDR works by your therapist guiding you in “bilateral stimulation” sessions. This is alternating sensory stimulation between the right and left sides of your body, which can happen with visual, audio, or tactile cues, This process helps the brain reprocess distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity, allowing more regulation in the nervous system.
IFS therapy in Anchorage
IFS stands for Internal Family Systems. This therapy modality allows you to explore and understand different parts, or sub-personalities, of yourself. By understanding these aspects of your personality and past, you can better understand how your reactions to current events are rooted in past experiences and tactics for handling stress. Making shifts in the roles of these parts can allow new ways of stress response that are less activating.
What can you expect from IFS therapy?
IFS therapy involves working with different parts of your inner self, especially those wounded parts that emerged as a result of your traumatic past. In IFS trauma therapy, we will guide you so that you can connect with these parts, understands their roles, and allow them to release those painful emotions and memories.
CBT Therapy in Anchorage
CBT stands for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. This strategy helps to address difficult memories, change distorted thought patterns, and reduce stressful emotional consequences of those memories and thoughts. “Cognitive restructuring” is used to challenge distorted beliefs that cause suffering, replacing them with more a more accurate and balanced perspective.
What can you expect from CBT therapy?
Your therapist will guide conversations that will encourage you to relinquish unhelpful or untrue negative beliefs that are distorting your emotional well-being. You can be liberated from the confines of these often long-standing beliefs to revise them to your liking, resulting in a more accepting, loving, and peaceful reality.
Our Trauma Therapy Office in Anchorage, AK
We are located in the historic Central Building in downtown Anchorage at 308 G Street on the corner of 3rd Ave. and G St. Please come right into our waiting room on the 3rd floor in suite #311, where we will find you for your appointments.
Metered street parking is available on 3rd Ave and G St., and there is a lot on 3rd and H St, behind our building as well. A code is required to enter the building, which we will send in your appointment reminder 48 hours before your scheduled appointment.
Start Virtual EMDR for Trauma
We offer EMDR virtually so you can experience the benefits of this groundbreaking modality from the comfort of your home. We use a video conferencing platform along with digital tools that provide the bilateral stimulation either through visual or audio cues. It is shown to be as effective virtually as it is in-person, opening the world of trauma processing to people in many more contexts than in the past.
Specifics You Need to Know About Trauma Treatment With Us
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Please see our fees page to learn more about our payment structure.
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We have trauma counselors who work 7 days a week, with afternoon appointments on Saturdays, and evening appointment Sunday-Thursday.
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We see clients age 13+, adults, couples, and families.
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We have a 24-hour cancellation policy. Please let us know if you need to change your appointment at least 24 hours before your appointment; otherwise, you will be charged for 50% of your session. We do not charge this fee; however, if your inability to attend is due to illness.
Are You Ready to Start Trauma Therapy in Anchorage & Across Alaska, Oregon & Idaho?
Get in touch today to schedule a free 15-minute consultation call for trauma counseling. We are happy to assess your needs and help you choose which of our therapists would be the best fit for you and answer any lingering questions about trauma treatment you may have. There are no silly questions; we are happy to demystify the counseling process, answer billing questions, address confidentiality concerns or discuss any other matters on your mind.