What is Psychological Trauma? Psychological Trauma is damage to the mind that occurs as a result of a distressing event. Trauma is often the result of an overwhelming mount of stress that exceeds one's ability to cope or integrate the emotions involved in the experience.

 

Sometimes people tell us why can't you move out of this way of feeling or reacting if the event happened so long ago? Trauma defragments the brain and causes emotional and physical reactions when thoughts of traumatic events show up as flashback or when our senses pick up the trauma experience as happening in the moment. It is not the person faults, the brain is just stuck with a virus that will not be cleaned up unless is worked out in Therapy. CPT or my preference and easiest modality, EMDR.