Trauma-focused therapy provides a space for children and their families to learn about normal responses to trauma and specifically how a traumatic event has impacted the child and family. This type of discovery and learning helps you and your child to digest why certain thoughts, feelings, and behaviors might occur, gives names and explanations to his/her experiences, and  reminds your child that he/she is not alone in his/her experience.

• Re establish safety

• identify triggers

• develop healthy coping skills

• decrease in traumatic stress symptoms

• practice trauma processing or integration