Begin Your Healing Journey With Trauma Counselling in Melbourne
Experienced and Trusted Trauma Counselling in Melbourne
At Solace Psychology, we offer trauma counselling in Melbourne to help you manage your symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and/or Complex trauma and better assist your mental health and emotional wellbeing.
From a one-off life event to repeated traumatic events — we are experienced in providing support for various forms and levels of trauma, including:
Acute Trauma (PTSD): This results from a single, intense event, such as an accident, natural disaster, or violent attack.
Chronic Trauma: This type occurs from repeated and prolonged exposure to distressing events, such as ongoing abuse or living in a war zone.
Complex Trauma: This involves multiple, varied traumatic events, often occurring in a relational context, such as childhood abuse or neglect.
Developmental Trauma: This refers to trauma experienced during critical developmental periods, particularly in childhood, which can affect emotional and psychological growth.
Secondary Trauma: Also known as vicarious trauma, this occurs when someone witnesses or hears about the traumatic experiences of others, often affecting caregivers, first responders, or therapists.
Cultural Trauma: This type involves collective trauma experienced by a group, such as communities affected by genocide, slavery, or systemic oppression.
Our team of psychologists understand that the healing process looks different for every individual, which is why we offer personalised trauma treatment.
Connect with our psychologists to experience supportive and informed trauma counselling.
What Is Trauma Counselling?
Trauma counselling offers emotional safety and stability, skills building for emotional regulation and processing of the trauma memories. It’s designed to help those experiencing complex trauma and PTSD from experiences like child abuse or family violence, or recovering from a traumatic event such as sexual assault, intimate partner violence or family violence, a sudden death, a natural disaster or a car accident.
Trauma counselling creates space to process your thoughts and feelings whilst providing you with coping mechanisms to improve emotional regulation. The tools and strategies you will learn can help you:
Process the distressing event.
Improve your sleep and hypervigilance.
Reframe your narrative/thoughts about the event.
Manage the impact of your symptoms on work/relationships.
When left untreated, PTSD and unresolved trauma can cause other mental health conditions, such as anxiety and depression. By addressing your feelings with trauma counselling, you can help work through any other mental health issues you may be experiencing.
Trauma therapy often uses evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches like CBT, DBT or Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help process your traumatic experiences.
Signs You May Need Trauma Counselling
People don’t always experience trauma in the same way. If you have experienced any traumatic event, speaking to a mental health professional can help you process what has occurred.
Individuals who have experienced trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, childhood trauma or complex trauma may be dealing with the following in their lives:
Depression
Flashbacks
Difficulty sleeping/ nightmares
In addition to the symptoms above, individuals may experience difficulties with emotional regulation, self-identity, interpersonal relationships, and attachment. They may also have a sense of hopelessness and persistent feelings of shame or guilt.
Trauma therapy can help you process these feelings and develop coping strategies to move forward with strength, confidence and resilience.
How Trauma Counselling Works
Safety: Creating a safe therapeutic environment is crucial. Clients need to feel secure physically and emotionally to explore their trauma without fear.
Trustworthiness: Establishing trust between the therapist and client is essential. This involves being consistent, transparent, and respectful, helping clients feel valued and understood.
Collaboration: The therapeutic relationship is collaborative, with the therapist and client working together to identify goals and strategies for healing.
Gradual Exposure: Clients are encouraged to process trauma at their own pace. Gradual exposure to traumatic memories can help reduce distress without overwhelming them.
Integration of Experiences: Helping clients integrate their traumatic experiences into their life narrative is crucial, allowing them to find meaning and move forward.
These principles create a foundation for effective trauma therapy, promoting healing and personal growth.
Types of Trauma Therapies
Our trauma counselling uses a range of therapeutic approaches such as CBT, DBT Therapy and EMDR. These evidence-based methods support your recovery process and help unpack traumatic memories and experiences.
CBT focuses on helping you reframe negative thought patterns that stem from trauma. EMDR helps reprocess traumatic memories through guided eye movements that are designed to alleviate the stress associated with traumatic memories. Other approaches may be integrated depending on your needs; this can be discussed during your session.
We will work with you through one-on-one sessions to uncover, process and validate your experience and related emotions. When you work with our team at Solace Psychology, we empower you to reclaim your sense of identity, control, and emotional well-being.
Why Choose Our Trauma Counselling Services in Melbourne
Experienced & Professional Team
Our team at Solace Psychology are highly qualified clinical psychologists, Mental Health Social Workers and psychologists.
We offer a safe space for trauma and PTSD treatment, regularly checking in to ensure your comfort throughout the process.
Convenient Practice With a Wide Range of Services
We have two practices in Carlton North and Coburg.
We also offer other mental health services such as depression treatment, couples counselling, ADHD assessments, anxiety treatment and many others.
Evidence-Based Therapies For Best Results
Our team always uses evidence-based and trauma-informed therapies such as schema therapy, CBT, and EMDR to ensure we use the best approach to suit your needs.
Begin your journey with us today to help heal and create a more fulfilling life.
Frequently Asked Questions
What type of counselling is best for trauma?
The right counselling for trauma depends on the circumstances and needs of the individual. Several evidence-based treatments are known to be particularly effective in treating trauma, such as CPT (which was developed for PTSD), cited by The Australian Psychological Society as an evidence-based method for treating trauma.
What are the 7 areas affected by complex trauma?
The seven areas affected in children who experience trauma were identified by The National Child Traumatic Stress Network Workgroup on Complex Trauma as attachment, biology, emotional regulation, dissociation, behavioural control, cognitive processes, and self-concept.
What are the 4 C's of trauma?
How do I know if I need trauma counselling?
Contact Us
Connect with our experienced team for professional trauma counselling in Melbourne.
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info@solacepsychology.com
- Address
625 Nicholson Street, Carlton North, VIC 3054
16 Harding Street, Coburg, VIC 3058
- Hours
Sat: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Client Support Team is available
Mon – Fri: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Sat: 09:00 am – 1:00 pm