One of the most debilitating aspects of PTSD is avoidance. To protect yourself from flashbacks or panic, you may unknowingly start shrinking your world.
You might:

• Stop driving or avoid certain routes to bypass reminders.

• Skip social gatherings where you can’t easily locate the exits or control the environment.

• Avoid sleeping to escape nightmares, leading to severe exhaustion.

These behaviors keep you safe in the short term, but they make your life smaller and lonelier. Therapy provides a safe environment to face these fears gently, so you don’t have to live within a perimeter of safety anymore.

• EMDR Therapy The gold standard for PTSD. It helps desensitize traumatic memories, moving them from “active threat” to “past history.”

• Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB): helps repair the nervous system’s ability to feel safe in the presence of others, reducing the need for hypervigilance.

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Helps you identify and reframe “stuck points” (beliefs like “The world is entirely dangerous”) that keep the PTSD cycle going.

• Grounding Techniques: Practical tools to pull you out of a flashback and anchor you firmly in the present moment.

Unlike PTSD, which often shows up in physical reactions, the hidden impact of Moral Injury is profound isolation.
You may:

• Believe you are “unforgivable” and therefore unworthy of love or connection.

• Cut ties with faith or community groups that once provided meaning.

• Self-sabotage relationships because you feel you don’t deserve happiness.

This internal exile keeps you locked in a prison of your own making. Therapy offers a key—a compassionate witness who can help you vocalize the unspeakable and begin the journey of self-forgiveness.

Compassionate Witnessing: Providing a safe, non-judgmental space where your story can be heard without shame.

Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB): Using the therapeutic relationship to rebuild your capacity for connection and trust.

Narrative Therapy: Helping you “re-story” your experience, moving from a narrative of pure failure to one that includes context, intent, and the possibility of redemption.

Forgiveness Work: Guided processes to help you understand, process, and eventually extend forgiveness—both to others and, crucially, to yourself.

One of the hardest parts of grief is the timeline expectation. Friends and family may support you for a few weeks, but eventually, the check-ins stop, and you are expected to be “back to normal.” You may:

• Hide your sadness to avoid making others uncomfortable.

• Isolate yourself because you feel like a burden or a “downer.”

• Feel guilty for moments of joy, or conversely, feel guilty for not “recovering” faster.

This pressure creates “Disenfranchised Grief”—where you feel your pain is no longer valid. Therapy breaks this isolation, offering you a space where your grief is allowed to exist as long as it needs to.

Continuing Bonds: We move away from “letting go” and instead help you find healthy ways to maintain a connection to who or what you lost, while still engaging in your present life.
Traumatic Grief Support (EMDR): If the loss was sudden or traumatic, we use EMDR to process the shock so you can begin to grieve naturally without the interference of trauma.
Narrative Therapy: Helping you tell the story of your loss and the story of your life after the loss, integrating the two into a meaningful whole.
Supportive Presence: Sometimes, the most powerful tool is simply having someone sit with you in the dark, so you don’t have to be there alone.