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Insights from the Trauma Care Psychology team.
Can Online Therapy Be Effective for PTSD or Trauma?
If you've been searching for trauma therapy, you might be wondering: Can this actually work online? The short answer, backed by a growing body of research, is yes, online therapy can be highly effective for PTSD. In this post, we share what the evidence says, and why for many people, virtual therapy may actually make it easier to stay in treatment.
When Protection Feels Like Danger: Nervous System Patterns in Relationships
Why do small disagreements with your partner turn into full-blown arguments? Often, it's your nervous system reacting to stress, not just the issue at hand. Discover how understanding fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses can help couples break the cycle of conflict and feel truly heard.
Early experiences shape how we connect, handle stress, and seek support in relationships. This post explores attachment styles through a trauma-informed lens, showing how behaviours are survival strategies, how culture influences the way they show up, and how understanding them can help build safer, stronger connections.
Overcorrection in Trauma: Understanding the Patterns
Sometimes, the ways we protect ourselves after trauma can become the very things that hold us back. At Trauma Care Psychology, we often see how the nervous system adapts after painful experiences, working hard to keep us safe, even long after the danger has passed. One of those adaptations is what we call overcorrection.
Understanding PTSD, Complex PTSD, and Borderline Personality Disorder
Many people come to therapy after years of living with symptoms of trauma, but aren't sure how to make sense of them. Terms like PTSD, Complex PTSD, and Borderline Personality Disorder are often used interchangeably, yet they describe different patterns of response to pain and survival. Understanding these distinctions helps guide the right treatment.
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