Trauma Therapy at The Surrey Centre
The effects of trauma may vary for each individual but they are usually very stressful, frightening and if they are not dealt with, can cause lasting effects including low self-esteem, low self-worth, alcoholism, drug addiction, depression and anxiety. Prolonged, untreated trauma can also manifest itself as ‘Post Traumatic Stress Disorder’. Individuals can relieve the traumatic event through flashbacks and nightmares and these can develop straight after the event but often it is months or years later that they relieve the trauma. PTSD can be successfully treated, even when it develops many years after a traumatic event.
Some people have had experiences in the past which were so awful, so difficult and so upsetting, that no matter what they tried to do to get over them, from medicine to counselling, nothing proved successful in helping them to successfully allow the past to return to and remain where, it belongs. in the past.
In addition to offering longer term psychotherapeutic exploration and understanding of the existential, spiritual and psycho-biological impact of such traumatic experience in terms of how it subsequently can affect everything from sleeping and eating patterns to self-esteem, depression, and addiction, The Surrey Centre can also provide those who need it with a modern, evidenced-based treatment called EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing).