PTSD Counselling

Post-traumatic stress disorder counselling is a form of therapy that helps individuals who have experienced trauma to manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life.

Why is PTSD Counselling important?

If left untreated PTSD may lead to suicide. PTSD is often the result of a near-death experience, or trauma which was so terrifying that the sufferer experiences reliving the traumatic event as though it is happening now, again and again and again. The symptoms of PTSD are hugely distressing and may involve every sense being affected, smell, taste, touch, sight, re-living their traumatic incident. The diagnosis of PTSD can help you to understand what is happening.

How can PTSD Counselling help?

PTSD treatment helps normalise the abnormal, allowing people with PTSD to express, in their own words, what they are feeling and thinking while being supported by their counsellor, never judged. The effects of PTSD gradually reduce as their sessions offer space and safety to explore feelings they have been unable to express all the while gaining positive feedback, acknowledgement and acceptance from the counsellor. It’s knowing that “It’s okay to feel this way”, “Your feelings and reactions were normal, given the abnormality of the situation you faced”. Often there’s enormous guilt associated with simply surviving, whilst others did not.