Trauma therapy that does not push.

Single-incident trauma

A car accident, an assault, a sudden medical event, a witnessed loss. One clear before and after. Resourcing first, then integrating the memory so it stops intruding on the present.

Complex or developmental trauma

Childhood neglect, ongoing harm, repeated attachment ruptures. Rarely one event to point to. Instead a nervous system shaped by what it took to survive, still running the same patterns now.

Relational trauma

Harm inside a close relationship. Partner betrayal, coercive control, emotional abuse. The hurt is tangled with longing, which makes it harder to grieve.

Intergenerational trauma

Patterns carried down through families and communities. Migration, war, residential schools. Sometimes the body is holding something it was never told about. Experiences may affect individuals, families, and communities in different ways.

Birth and reproductive trauma

A birth that did not go the way it was supposed to. Emergency interventions, loss, feeling unheard. See fertility and postpartum therapy.

Vicarious and secondary trauma

For first responders, healthcare workers, social workers, journalists. The cost of being close to other people’s worst days accumulates quietly. Real even when nothing happened to you directly.

Racial and identity-based trauma

The compounded weight of racism, queerphobia, transphobia. Both specific incidents and the chronic background hum of being unsafe in spaces that should have been neutral.

Medical trauma

Diagnoses, invasive procedures, ICU stays, dismissive care. The body keeps bracing long after, and follow-up appointments can become triggers.

Unprocessed grief

Loss that never got room to land. Deaths, estrangements, endings. Stuck grief often looks and feels like trauma.

Phase 1 · Stabilization

Often several sessions, and sometimes longer. Building safety inside the therapy relationship and inside your own body. Identifying triggers. Learning regulation skills. No trauma processing happens here. For some clients this is the whole of the work, and it is enough.

Phase 2 · Processing

When, and only when, you are ready. Working with the trauma material itself, gently, in pieces small enough that your window of tolerance stays open. Not every client needs or wants this phase.

Phase 3 · Integration

Reclaiming a life that includes what happened without being organized around it.Re-engaging with relationships, work, and identity from a steadier base. Old patterns soften.

Stabilization and pacing

We incorporate trauma-informed stabilization, resourcing, and pacing strategies commonly used in trauma therapy. Anchor & Bloom does not currently offer formal EMDR; if that is the right fit for you, we are glad to refer.

Body-based and somatic approaches

Body-based approaches pay attention to what the body did during the original event and what it may still be holding. Useful because so much of trauma is non-verbal. Seesomatic therapy.

Polyvagal-informed

A shared language for what is happening in session and a clearer map for the work between sessions. Especially helpful for clients with long stretches of shutdown.

Attachment-based

Trauma rarely happens in a vacuum. It happens in relationships, and it shapes every relationship that comes after. Attachment-based work looks at the patterns running in the background and the ones running in the room.

IFS-informed (parts work)

Internal Family Systems treats the psyche as a system of parts. Lets us address the part of you that wants to talk about it and the part that wants nothing to do with it, both at once.

Trauma-focused CBT

CBT adapted for trauma contexts. Useful for intrusive thoughts and the meaning-making phase. Used selectively, not as a default.

This fits

• Adults with single-incident trauma looking for paced, evidence-informed care
• Adults with complex or developmental trauma who want slow, relationship-based work
• Attachment ruptures that keep showing up in current relationships
• Postpartum and birth-related trauma
• Intergenerational trauma the family did not name
• Anxiety with a clear trauma layer underneath

This does not fit

• Active crisis or imminent risk. Please use 9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline or 911
• Psychiatric stabilization, medication management, or hospital-level care
• Dissociative identity work that requires specialist training we do not hold
• Court-mandated assessments or forensic reports
• Clients under 18

If it is not the right fit, we will say so in the consultation and help point toward what is.