Attachment therapy uses the framework of Attachment Theory, which helps us to understand how relationships with our primary caregivers predict our sense of safety and security in the world, starting in infancy. These early relationships also tell us how safe other people are, how hard we should work to express or reject our emotional needs, and how deserving of love we are as individuals--felt “truths” that we can’t help but carry with us long after they’re born.  

Inner child work is a style of therapy that focuses on addressing unmet childhood needs and healing attachment wounds while exploring how the inner child shows up in your adult life.

Recovering from religious trauma can be overwhelming and confusing, but there are commonalities that those with religious trauma share which may demystify the experience for you and help you feel less alone. Here are four things that may surprise you about religious trauma.

Most people who have heard the term “premarital counseling” tend to associate it with therapy for only engaged couples, and oftentimes with a priest/pastor. However, premarital counseling is an option for any couples who are either engaged, considering marriage, or considering what it would look like to commit to their partner long-term.

Woven Trauma Therapy consists of a group of therapists that love reading (and watching Bravo). Of course, there’s lots of reading for the trauma care we provide to our patients, but we also love a good fiction story. It helps us get out of our heads and into another world. We’ve curated our reading list for fiction for the fall of 2021. Come read with us.

Religious trauma is the felt sense of coercion or manipulation by a religious leader or dogmatic and authoritarian religious community. We explore the symptoms of religious trauma and how to address these.

Depending on the type of betrayal, there are some things you can do to manage what you are experiencing in order to heal.

At Woven, we specialize in relational, depth-oriented therapy approaches that provide a solid foundation for the delicate and challenging work of Complex PTSD treatment. Here, I describe 3 Steps we use to address CPTSD for our Clients, sharing in detail what this style of treatment looks like. I also explain the role of grief work in treating complex PTSD.

In trauma work, I hear this question all the time. Understandably, people want to know why it matters if they grieve the past (or present) or not. Moreover, people worry about being overcome or undone by their grief, should they let it out. This process can be difficult, but grieving is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal to heal childhood wounds and other trauma across the lifespan.

There are many benefits of trauma therapy for teens, but here are the most significant takeaways you can expect.

One common question we get from trauma survivors is: What is the difference between Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)? As with all diagnoses, the nuances are really important to acknowledge when it comes to understanding diagnoses, diagnostic criteria and the events leading up to the diagnosis. Remember: self-diagnosis can be a destructive path. Find a professional to discuss your concerns with before assuming you meet diagnostic criteria for any mental health disorder.

Trauma can occur and many stages of life, however treating adolescent trauma looks different than treating adult trauma. Does this come as a surprise to you? If so, I am going to break down what really is trauma therapy for teens. If you're a parent or a teen who has questions about trauma therapy, you’ll get answers that will tell you what trauma therapy for teens looks like, what a teen can expect in trauma therapy, and how trauma therapy for teens different from adult trauma therapy.

If you’ve made the decision to invest in trauma-oriented therapy and want to set specific goals, here are some helpful characteristics of goals that best work to counteract your trauma symptoms and promoting healing.

Here, you’ll learn the areas of life and self most impacted by PPD, the most common signs and symptoms of PPD, and two resources that you can immediately use to support your recovery. This is not an exhaustive list of signs and symptoms, but some of the most common.

If you have experienced trauma symptoms after an upsetting or life-threatening medical event, Medical PTSD might be an appropriate label for your experience.

Group Therapy is a style of therapy in which the group itself is the main instrument of therapeutic change, and one or more therapists facilitate the group with several people synonymously. Group therapy is a dynamic process that encourages and utilizes relationships between members and therapists to create insight, build skills and work toward overall improvement.

I’m guessing you’re here because you’ve been shaken by something in your life, and you’re considering asking for help. There are many different types of support out there so I am going to help break it down for you and detail what trauma therapy even looks like, so you can decide if it’s right for you.

Here, I’ll break down the three steps for identifying trauma, so you can feel better equipped to decide what’s next.

There are many myths out there about codependency and the people-pleasing dynamics that many of us experience in our relationships, but I find that four main myths come up most frequently for those who are in therapy to address their people-pleasing patterns.

One of the most powerful things you can do for yourself is to learn how to regulate your nervous system. If you have a hard time calming down or you find yourself stuck in dread and helplessness, here are a few ways that you can regulate your nervous system today and all of them are literally free. ⁣