Healing can be so humiliating, painful, exhausting, and terrifying. In the end, it’s worth it for most people because of what’s on the other side.
Here are 6 of the most common things I’ve noticed as clients heal from trauma.

Survivor’s Guilt is the experience and phenomena of when an individual survives a life threatening, traumatic, and/or overwhelming experience. Essentially, someone else’s experience were not your own. Not everyone who survives a traumatic experience will develop survivor’s guilt. Research and training in this area of survivor’s guilt is still relatively new.

Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS) is experienced by those who are struggling with leaving an authoritarian religion such as cults, fundamentalism, and abuse.

A situation when people or institutions on which a person relies for protection, resources, and survival violate the trust or well-being of that person.

Transracial Adoptees and Adoption Trauma

Decolonizing therapy is an approach and process toward healing from the dehumanizing effects of colonization, imperialism, state-sanctioned violence, and systemic oppression.

The recovery process may be conceptualized in three stages: establishing safety, retelling the story of the traumatic event, and post traumatic growth.

Our early experiences impact our ability to form healthy interpersonal relationships with not just others, but with ourselves. Essentially, attachment trauma impacts our ability to feel safe with others and ourselves.