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Trauma Therapy St. Louis

**Trauma and grief make a big impact on kids, teens, college students - and on you. We’re here to help.**
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91% of our clients see improvements, with 82% achieving their goals within 12 sessions.

Trauma therapy in St. Louis, MO for kids, teens, and young adults.

How on earth do you cope after grief, loss, or trauma? When something terrible happens, you may have an idea of how you’re actually supposed to get through it - but the reality is often so much harder.

When you’re a parent going through something really hard, you’re suffering. And when your child is going through that, too, it is so difficult.

How do you help your family heal from trauma?

Bad events can impact the whole family. It’s hard to know how to help your child get better when you yourself are trying to deal. When is it over? When will it be normal? Is my child’s anxiety and anger typical, or is it a symptom of this traumatic experience that needs to be addressed ASAP?

Trauma therapy can help with the big behaviors.

Your child may be acting out more at school, getting in trouble with their teacher, or withdrawing from their friends. You could also be seeing the flip side, with your kid acting like a perfect angel, helping out and checking in with you all the time because they don’t want to make things worse. They’re not sleeping well anymore. They have a short fuse. They get a blank look on their face at times and seem to space out, and you wonder...are they reliving what has happened?

It’s a definite possibility. Which is why we recommend checking in with a trauma therapist to assess what’s going on, build skills, and work on helping your child heal from the mad, bad, scary things that have happened.

At Compassionate Counseling St. Louis, we use research backed trauma therapy, like TF-CBT, to help you through the hard stuff

All of our anxiety therapists are trauma trained.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, aka TF-CBT, is an evidence-based therapy that teaches your child the important skills they need to heal from their trauma - behaviorally, emotionally, holistically.

The Process:

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We learn about trauma generally, and your child or teen starts to gently identify with their own trauma experience.
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We build relaxation skills so that your child has a whole trauma toolkit to help with their big feelings.
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When they’re ready and have built emotional regulation skills, only then do we dig in to their trauma story to help them heal.
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We reframe unhelpful thoughts and feelings, like self-blame and guilt, so that the trauma becomes something that happened - NOT something that defines them.

Getting started with trauma therapy in St. Louis: Next Steps

You don’t have to try and solve this on your own.

You don’t have to feel at a loss. With research-backed, clinically proven interventions, we can help you and your child process the trauma, move forward, and build the skills you need to rewire your brain.

We can’t change the fact that the bad thing happened.

But we can heal how your brain holds on to that information. We can change the trauma or loss from something that defines your child to something that just happened to your child.

Schedule your free phone consultation today to talk more about trauma therapy in St. Louis at Compassionate Counseling St. Louis.