What is Trauma-Informed Therapy?
Trauma-informed therapy is very straightforward in its name and tactics. That is to say, trauma-informed treatment informs you about different traumas and how they affect your mental psyche at different stages in life. When it comes to trauma therapy for teens, these mental impacts are more pronounced, often manifesting later in early adulthood. Hence, trauma-informed therapy enlightens while also providing active solutions for your child’s underlying distress. The basis of this type of treatment is to inform, support, and heal at every phase of their treatment.
How Does Trauma-Informed Therapy Work for Teens?
Trauma therapy for teens works differently from adults, though it utilizes similar approaches to achieve mental healing. Here are several key techniques that make trauma-informed therapy for teens work effectively.
We utilize confidential and non-judgmental communication to encourage them to open up. This means listening intently to their concerns, struggles, and emotions. Doing so helps us understand the source of their trauma and use this understanding as an effective premise to chart the most personalized treatment. The more they share, the better we understand. The better we and family members understand, the more equipped we are to maximize treatment efficacy.
Trauma therapy for teens works best when doctors identify underlying triggers. Trigger identification is the basis of all successful trauma-based treatment. Once these triggers are identified, we can then formulate a personalized road to healing. We help the traumatic sufferer deal with these triggers and enact training methods to remove them en route to improving overall mental well-being.
Coping techniques are the foundation for how effectively an individual deals with all of life’s unexpected hardships. That’s why we teach only the most cutting-edge, evidence-based coping methods in the country. We’ll provide practical training exercises and personalized methods to help you independently handle anything life may throw your way. Contact us now to equip your child with the most failsafe coping techniques we have to offer.
We teach them the nature of their underlying traumas and how they affect their mental psyche. This helps them learn more about their trauma and themselves in turn. This enlightening journey of self-discovery is often the first step in accepting trauma and dealing with it proactively. It’s important to note that this doesn’t mean accepting the trauma itself, but the effect the trauma has on you. Only by accepting its impact on your life can you then begin the healing process.
The most important premise of any trauma-based treatment involves establishing an environment that the patient feels is safe and secure. This is key; otherwise, they will not openly share even the most minor distresses. A safe environment encourages openness, which is the primary role of trauma-informed therapy sessions. Correlatively, you won’t find a more comfortable environment than Blume Therapy Center to share your mind.
The best support team and healing partners are your family. Unfortunately and understandably, most family members don’t know how to be the support member they need to be for a loved one suffering from untreated trauma. Thankfully, our experts have comprehensive family training practices that ensure your family works closely with you as effective support members.
Different Forms of Trauma-Informed Treatment
Trauma-informed treatment comes in many different forms. All of which offer a unique approach to identifying and dealing with childhood trauma. Here are some of the many types of trauma-informed treatment for teens.
CBT treatment directly deals with reprocessing your thought cycles through a scientifically established process. In essence, cognitive behavioral therapy untrains negative thoughts and emotions tied to your underlying traumas. The most important aspect of CBT is the positive reinforcement of thought habits instilled throughout this training process. Thus, CBT helps you identify emotionally and mentally with your childhood traumas in a productive, positive, and healthy manner.
CPT is uniquely designed to treat teens who exhibit symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and other similar traumatic experiences. This form of treatment works by helping the individual proactively process the traumatic experiences they’ve endured. Furthermore, it helps them come to terms with how those experiences have impacted them. This evidence-based form of CBT is a healthy way of dealing with the trauma and accepting yourself and your current state.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy is the most direct yet effective form of treatment that consists of dealing with your traumas head-on. Put simply, this type of treatment makes you confront these experiences directly through careful therapeutic administration and support. This means dealing directly and openly with associated emotions and thoughts that the individual would otherwise avoid. However, avoiding these emotional confrontations is precisely the reason these distresses linger and mutate into serious mental health conditions. Dealing with them through Prolonged Exposure Therapy helps you process, deal, and move on from any potential mental problems in the present and future.
Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy is a unique scientific breakthrough type of evidence-based therapy for mental health treatment. This breakthrough stems from recent studies that discovered a direct link between impulsive eye patterns and memory processing. Put simply, experts can manipulate specific eye patterns to help you reprocess your negative memories associated with the underlying trauma. In essence, they can use the basics of CBT to untrain your negative emotions connected to these traumas through manipulating these eye patterns.
What Can Teens Get Out of Trauma-Informed Therapy?
Teenage brains are in the most developmental stage of growth as they transition into adulthood. Hence, their underdeveloped state of mind is equally fragile as it is expanding. That said, here are some of the many positive things teens can gain from trauma-informed therapy.
At a stage where most people are just beginning their journey of self-discovery, their mental processing maturity is still developing. That’s where trauma-informed therapy can help. Our experts can instill mental training practices that help them process and deal proactively with past and current traumas effectively. This, in turn, can help them deal maturely not just with trauma, but with scholastic and life choices as well.
Trauma-Informed Therapy teaches adolescents and teens vital life skills to deal with the distress they encounter. These skills include social, problem-solving, emotional, and financial management. This includes priority management that can help them excel at school and in their job. Reach out to us now to get your child the life skills they need to thrive and reach their full potential.
Traumatic experiences are a constant reminder of a dark time in someone’s life. Therefore, it spurs negative, depressive thoughts that can make them feel like they’re in an unbreakable cycle of negative thinking. Our trauma-based treatment approach helps instill a proactive mindset that will help them maintain a positive mindset. Most importantly, we teach them how to maintain this mindset regardless of what life throws their way.
The most important part of treatment in any form is to build a solid support structure. Our trauma therapy for teens implements the most solid support foundation through a variety of evidence-based methods. For starters, we heavily involve parents and loved ones and offer vital support training. These training sessions help supporters of those affected by trauma be the best support members they can be.
By full-spectrum understanding, we mean this treatment helps them and their loved ones fully understand the nature of their struggles. In addition, we implement well-rounded training for the traumatized individual and their loved ones to help the family grow together. Equipped with a well-rounded understanding, both parties can effectively execute therapist-taught training practices that promote overall healing.
Mental health symptoms can manifest themselves through various behavioral corruptions. These symptoms can flare up without warning and lead to rash, impulsive, sometimes dangerous actions. That’s why we have all the most state-of-the-art symptom management symptoms to help you cope with an impending episode.
Can Trauma-Informed Therapy Help Teens with Complex Trauma?
Trauma-informed therapy helps teens from all walks of life deal with the most complex traumas. That’s why we stress the importance of personalized therapy practices because we understand that all trauma-affected individuals are unique. Hence, all patients undergo a comprehensive assessment and evaluation to determine the most effective approach necessary to meet their needs. Connect with our family-oriented treatment experts now to get the most in-depth treatment for the most complex cases of adolescent trauma.
Blume Therapy Offers Trauma Therapy for Teens
Contact Blume Therapy today to get the most personalized, evidence-based treatment for teens in the country. You and your family will have complete access to our endless supply of mental health tools to help you heal together. Mental and relationship reinforcement are within your grasp, thanks to the unparalleled treatment model instilled by Blume Therapy Center.
Brian is a licensed marriage and family therapist with nearly a decade of experience working with diverse populations and age groups in various settings, including community mental health, treatment facilities, and private practice. He earned his Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and specializes in working with adolescents and young adults. Brian’s areas of expertise include addressing challenges related to chronic illness, substance abuse, family issues, and academic struggles.
