Complex Trauma
It is time to heal your past, transform the present and optimize your future!
Marla McCaffrey, LMSW
Treating PTSD, complex trauma, Therapist abuse/exploitation, and anxiety and depression in Michigan
In-person and virtual psychotherapy
Let’s untie the knot…
“I feel angry all the time”
“I keep repeating the same unhelpful behaviors”
“I don’t feel very close to other people”
“I numb myself by drinking too much”
“I don’t like myself very much”
Complex Trauma, or C-PTSD, results from prolonged, repeated exposure to painful and terrifying experiences.
C-PTSD is often associated with chronic trauma in childhood, such as physical, sexual or emotional abuse, or neglect It can also include chronic poverty and unsafe communities. C-PTSD can also develop in adults who are exposed to repeated traumatic events, such as fighting in a war, policing, or interpersonal violence.
Trauma overwhelms our sense of control, connection and meaning.
Perhaps you lived in a home where your need for nurturing and love were not acknowledged or met. Now you struggle with anxious thoughts and panic attacks.
Perhaps you witnessed a lot of violence, crime, drug activity or poverty in your community, or in your childhood home. Trusting people and feeling safe is difficult.
Perhaps you served in the military, became a police officer, EMS responder or spent time working in an emergency department of a hospital. Anger, cynicism and numbness to the suffering of others is hurting your career and relationships.
Perhaps you were physically, sexually or emotionally abused by your caregivers. You avoid intimacy, memories, feelings, and well… most everything.
Therapy with me can help you process the past and free you to live your future with connection and meaning.
Imagine feeling empowered by being emotionally regulated.
Imagine feeling hopeful, strong, resilient and like you have moved beyond the past.
Imagine responding intentionally to stressors instead of reacting.
Imagine living your life with integrity and purpose.
Imagine living a healthy, fulfilling life in work and relationships.
Imagine an end to self-sabotage.
Together we can process painful past memories and grieve what has been lost, while learning how to be in a regulated relaxed body and creating space for safety, joy, peace, purpose, meaning and love!
Therapy with me can help you regulate yourself and live intentionally!
Thoughts can just be thoughts.
Realize you are not broken or defective.
Rid yourself of guilt or shame about your past.
Live in a comfortable and relaxed body.
Feel strong, resilient, renewed.