Childhood Trauma

Therapy and counseling can help resolve childhood trauma and abuse that has a lasting psychological impact on both children and adults. This childhood trauma can be the result of both physical and mental abuse or neglect. The physical abuse can be in the form of sexual molestation or violence that results in an injury to the child. Mentally, childhood trauma can be the result of neglect, verbal abuse, parental drug abuse, or unavailability of the parents or caretakers during the childhood years. The trauma could also result from divorce, or the death of a sibling or any number of issues that could be painful and or stressful to a little person simply trying to grow up.

If you feel that you have suffered from some difficulties, abuse or traumas in your childhood that are impacting your life today, it could be very helpful to come to a counselor or therapist to talk about it. Healing from our childhood issues is a very important, self -empowering and powerful thing to do. In trauma therapy, when we work on our family of origin issues and explore what happened during our growing up, we can resolve the trauma and feel freer to be in our adult relationships. Trauma counseling can help you find a better inner peace and learn new ways to self soothe and care for ourselves.

Counseling by a trained professional is a proven and effective resource to help heal the wounds of any form of childhood pain or trauma. Whether you have a child that is withdrawn and antisocial, or if you are an adult who experienced any trauma or abuse as a child, you can be helped tremendously by a qualified and experienced psychotherapist. Seeking help is the first step toward recovery.

Take the first step and contact me or call my Washington, DC office (202-333-1787) to seek help with childhood trauma.