Many individuals can experience symptoms associated with trauma. Anxiety, fear, and hopelessness are a few emotions that can linger after painful or traumatic events,or chronic exposure to high stress or traumatic living situations. Oftentimes coupled with experiences of nightmares, flashbacks, mood swings, and dissociation. I have experience working with both interpersonal or attachment based trauma, as well as with first-responder and military trauma. Let's help you overcome these symptoms and move through the process of grief and healing.
Substances and compulsive behaviours work until they don't. You've done your best to protect yourself and escape pain, and realize you might now need more help. Let's get to the root of your addiction and rebuild a healthier, more balanced life. While I also work often with substance addiction, I am also a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) through the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP), treating compulsive sex, pornography and love addiction behaviours.
We do the best with what we have. Sometimes the point comes where we need more to help cope - I use a mix of cognitive and behavioural approaches combined with Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help create richer relationships with ourselves, to be able to identify needs and how to take care of yourself in the way you're needing for more balance and contentment.
Life can be difficult. Maybe some things are working, and maybe some things aren't. Let's start with you - how you understand and connect to yourself, to gain clarity on the connections you want with others.
Amber Stephenson Counselling
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