
When you experience a traumatic event—whether a single incident or ongoing stress—it can leave you feeling disconnected, anxious, and forever changed. You might struggle with flashbacks, nightmares, or feel constantly on edge. At Milestone Family Counseling in Frisco, we provide specialized trauma therapy that helps you process painful experiences and reclaim your sense of safety.
Trauma changes how you see the world, but it doesn't have to define your future. Our Frisco therapists help you heal from life's unexpected wounds and build a new sense of normal.
Trauma can stem from multiple types of stressors including sexual, physical, emotional, financial, and verbal abuse. It can begin as early as childhood and as late as someone aged 65 and older without the person even being aware depending on the severity of trauma. Trauma can come in the form of acute or chronic stressors, think of a car crash for acute and prolonged child neglect as chronic. While some trauma can be easily identified, it often can hide suppressed in our relationships, environment, and behaviors silently affecting our daily functioning until it becomes too much to handle alone. The following are just a few of the many common disorders that can result from trauam:
Treatment for trauma can vary as needed per individual, typically a trauma informed or trauma trained therapist will utilize a variety of tools to help process trauma. CBT, DBT, and ACT skills can help challenge and reframe thoughts, feelings, and behaviors associated with trauma. Gestalt style therapy, mindfulness techniques, motivational interviewing and exposure are also used in order to increase self worth and emotional regulation in order to process trauma.
These approaches are effective due to them targeting a fixed mindset and attempting to reframe into a growth mindset while implementing holistic and compassionate techniques. (Norling et al., 2025)
Typically, someone seeking trauma therapy consistently will report improved emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills. Dissociation, flash backs, and other stressors can reduce in severity and healthier coping skills can replace unhelpful behaviors previously engaged in. Improved sleep, memory recall, focus, confidence, and communication skills can also be expected.
You deserve to live free from trauma's shadow. At Milestone Family Counseling in Frisco, we provide the compassionate, expert care needed to help you heal and reclaim your life.
Take the first step toward peace and recovery. Contact us today for your free, confidential consultation. Milestone Family Counseling - A Safe Place for Healing in Frisco.
No, like most things with mental health, problems and stressors do not fully go away for good. The goal however, will be significant improvement in your management of symptoms than before.
There are multiple services to utilize for treatment resistant trauma and other symptoms such as EMDR, TMS, and Ketamine assisted therapy. All are supervised and typically provided under the care of one facility, these options are not currently utilized at this location.
Typically, trauma can resurface during times of elevated stress, anxiety, and depression. It is important to stay consistent with coping skills and therapy to reduce chances of symptoms worsening.
Dissociation is a process that involves a disconnect between your thoughts, feelings, and memories in relation to your body. It is a defense mechanism that is subconsciously employed in order to protect the brain and body from perceived harm.
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