Can counseling help me overcome problems stemming from childhood abuse?
We have helped many clients suffering from childhood abuse. Typically, people who have been traumatized by childhood abuse come to us complaining about difficulties with sleeping, loss of appetite, repetitive nightmares, inability to trust others, and inability to form lasting relationships out of fear of being hurt. A counselor who has special training in post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be able to help you resolve those issues. Obviously, no one can change the actual events of your childhood; but with the proper help, you may be able to safely look at your past, and may also be able to understand what happened, as well as some of the reasons why those events occurred. From there counseling can help you assign proper responsibility to those who abused you, enable you to grieve for the losses associated with that abuse, and move toward a positive future that will honor your strength in surviving as well as build new skills to help you thrive from that point forward.
