Trauma-informed therapy ensures you feel safe and supported as you explore difficult or overwhelming life experiences.

It is grounded in principles of safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration and mutuality, empowerment and choice, cultural, historical, and gender issues. These principles are the foundational framework that underpin all work with traumatized individuals ensuring respect for personal narratives, autonomy and avoidance of re traumatization.

This approach shifts the question from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” - recognizing the impact of past experiences while honoring your strengths. The focus is on avoiding re-traumatization, gently building resources, and helping you restore a sense of safety, confidence, and self-worth.

Kolk & Fisher (1995;505) define trauma as an ‘inescapably stressful event that overwhelms people’s existing coping mechanisms’.

Ensuring you feel respected and safe from the outset and acknowledging the deep‑seated impacts of trauma which may go beyond what we see on the surface. Trauma‑informed care focuses on understanding the brain‑body connection, as well as recognizing symptoms, triggers, and most importantly, the strategies to support healing, This approach helps you build resilience, restore a sense of safety, and take meaningful steps toward recovery.