Trauma Focused Therapy
No Longer Be Controlled by Your Trauma
Trauma Focused Therapy & PTSD TREATMENT for Adults
Whether you have been in therapy for a while or you are seeking therapy for the first time, you are ready to face the wounds from the past but feeling scared of what direction therapy will take you. You crave to be heard, connected, and alive.
Hi, My name is Ah Hyun “Ashley” Lee,
I’m an EMDR Certified Therapist and a Trauma Therapist. I provide online therapy in California. I am the therapist to go to when you are seeking trauma-focused therapy for adults. I specialize in therapy for complex trauma, childhood trauma, phobia treatment, PTSD treatment, therapy for sexual trauma, and therapy for emotional trauma.
It’s time for trauma therapy when you are stuck with negative narratives about yourself
You find yourself repeating in your head and coming back to the narratives of “I’m UNLOVABLE”, “I’m INCAPABLE”, “I’m UNWORTHY”, or “I’m BROKEN”.
Trauma Therapy can help process family trauma
Maybe the relationships with your parents or siblings are okay now, but there are things that they or you no longer talk about. You may still love them but find yourself feeling resentful, hurt, and in pain.
Your relationship with your significant other no longer has to suffer once you start trauma therapy
Your partner or you want intimacy but the past sexual trauma is getting in the way, impairing your ability to feel safe physically. Most days, you feel numb, avoid how you feel inside, and even resort to self-medicating.
Trauma Therapy can improve your work performance
You struggle to be fully present at work and rather feel triggered by your colleagues and managers or in the meetings where you must show up. You grow quiet, try your best to avoid them, and constantly question your ability.
I help individuals attend to their relevant memories, emotions, physical sensations, thoughts, and pain while being there as a safeguard in the therapeutic space. It is not just a reflection that you do in talk therapy. You can really feel it in your body and take yourself back to where it started and become empathetic toward yourself. You do not have to deal with your pain alone. You will have me as a guide through the challenges to overcome your trauma. You will experience a beautiful process in the transformation of your traumatic memories with a compassionate perspective.
EMDR Therapy is one way of healing trauma.
Frequently Asked Questions About Trauma-focused Therapy and Trauma Counseling in California
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Regular talk therapy may get you started in opening in therapy. However, it may quickly turn into venting about your week with a repeated pattern of issues that never seem to go away. EMDR Therapy, whether in person or online, offers a trauma-focused approach to address the issues directly. It has been heavily researched and proven highly effective for complex trauma.
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Talk therapy cannot be enough to resolve trauma. Yes, the therapeutic relationship, the expression of emotions, and reflections are important, which I base the foundation on in therapy. However, trauma therapy or trauma focused therapy deepens with a somatic approach and an imagery exercise (+ mind and body connection) to address memories, core beliefs or narratives, and the nervous system. EMDR Therapy is an example of trauma therapy.
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The main idea of EMDR, which stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is that when your emotional brain is activated through a specific type of stimulation while you focus on the traumatic memory, the experience of the memory can change in a way that brings positive outcomes, such as relief of symptoms, improved sense of self, better relationships with others, and daily life.
