Trauma changes the way your brain and body respond to safety cues. The right therapy can re-wire that response, and the right therapy is not the same for everyone. Different approaches work for different people, and our therapists understand that trauma treatment is not one size fits all: some people do best with EMDR, others with parts work, somatic therapy, or a combination, and your therapist will match the approach to you rather than the other way around. Our trauma team is EMDRIA-trained and uses approaches that don't require you to narrate the trauma in detail. We move at the pace your nervous system can tolerate, with stabilization built in from session one.
This may be a good fit if you experience…
- ✓Single-incident trauma, such as an assault, accident, medical event, or loss
- ✓Complex / developmental trauma from childhood
- ✓Combat or first-responder PTSD
- ✓Birth trauma, medical PTSD, or post-surgical distress
- ✓Religious, cultural, or identity-based trauma
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess stuck memories so they lose their charge. You don't have to describe the trauma in detail. Available in person and via telehealth.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Trauma often leaves behind protective ‘parts’: the inner critic, the people-pleaser, the numbed-out part. IFS helps you meet each part with compassion, understand its job, and update its role. Particularly powerful for complex and developmental trauma.
The IFS Model: Self at the Center
Every protective part is doing a job. The Self can lead them all with curiosity and compassion.
Managers
Plan, control, prevent pain
Firefighters
Distract from pain when it breaks through
Exiles
Carry the original wound
Somatic & Polyvagal Approaches
Trauma lives in the body as much as the mind. We integrate somatic tracking, polyvagal-informed breathwork, and titration so your nervous system learns it's safe to come out of fight/flight/freeze.
The Polyvagal Ladder
Trauma can lock the nervous system on a lower rung. Therapy teaches it the way back up.
Ventral Vagal
Safe & social
Sympathetic
Fight or flight, mobilized
Dorsal Vagal
Shutdown, freeze, collapse
Phase-Based Care
We follow the standard three-phase model: (1) stabilization and resourcing, (2) processing, (3) integration. You always have a foot on the brake. We don't push past your window of tolerance.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for Trauma
For trauma that hasn't shifted with other approaches, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) pairs low, medically supervised doses of ketamine with therapy before, during, and after each session. Ketamine can temporarily loosen the rigid, defended patterns trauma leaves behind, which lets the therapy reach material that is otherwise hard to approach. A licensed prescriber handles screening and dosing; your Crown therapist provides the preparation, in-session support, and integration work. KAP is offered by our KAP-trained clinicians and sits inside a broader treatment plan rather than replacing it.
What to expect
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First 2–4 sessions focus on safety, stabilization, and resourcing
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Trauma processing begins only when you and your therapist agree you're ready
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Weekly 50-min sessions; some clients use occasional 80-min EMDR intensives
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Free between-session bilateral stimulation tools available on our site
