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Healing Trauma Through Compassionate Care: Comprehensive Trauma Therapy Services

Trauma can leave deep emotional scars, impacting every aspect of life. At Best Therapies, we specialize in helping individuals navigate the challenges of trauma and find a path toward healing and resilience. Our trauma therapy services are designed to provide compassionate, evidence-based support tailored to your unique needs.

What is Trauma and Its Impact?

Trauma refers to the emotional and psychological response to distressing events. These experiences can range from acute incidents like accidents to prolonged exposure to adverse conditions, such as abuse or neglect. Trauma can manifest through symptoms such as:

Flashbacks and intrusive thoughts
Anxiety and depression
Difficulty forming relationships
Physical symptoms like fatigue or chronic pain

Recognizing these signs is the first step toward recovery.

Types of Trauma We Address

Our skilled therapists are equipped to support clients dealing with various types of trauma, including:

Acute Trauma:

Resulting from a single distressing event, such as a natural disaster or assault.

Chronic Trauma:

Stemming from prolonged exposure to stressful situations, like domestic violence or bullying.

Complex Trauma:

Often linked to ongoing exposure to multiple traumatic events, particularly during childhood.

Each therapy plan is customized to address your specific experiences and goals.

How Trauma Therapy Can Help

Trauma therapy focuses on helping you process and manage distressing memories and emotions. At Best Therapies, we utilize proven methods to support your healing journey, including:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): CBT reshapes negative thought patterns to promote healthier coping strategies.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Reducing the intensity of traumatic memories through guided sessions.

Mindfulness-Based Therapy: Cultivating present-moment awareness to alleviate stress and anxiety.

Additional Read: How To Recover From Emotional Trauma

What Makes Best Therapies Unique?

When you choose Best Therapies for trauma treatment, you gain access to:

Experienced Clinicians: Our team includes licensed therapists with specialized training in trauma-focused therapy.

Customized Care Plans: We prioritize your needs, offering personalized approaches to therapy.

Safe and Confidential Environment: Whether in-person or virtual, we create a space where you feel supported and heard.

Take the First Step Toward Healing

Overcoming trauma is a courageous process; you don’t have to face it alone. At Best Therapies, we guide you every step of the way.

Contact us today to schedule a consultation and begin your journey toward recovery. Let us help you reclaim your life and build a brighter future.

additional resources

Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Check out this resource to learn more about how traumatic stress from our childhoods can affect our experiences as adults.

National Center for PTSD

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can occur after people experience life-threatening or dangerous events that threaten our feelings of security. The National Center for PTSD provides resources for education, support, and treatment.

Trauma is Really Strange

This comic, written by Steve Haines and illustrated by Sophie Standing, gives a brief explanation of what trauma is, how it can affect us, and how we can overcome it. Bonus points because there are pictures!

The Complex PTSD Workbook

This workbook by Arielle Schwartz provides an introduction to complex trauma. There are strategies and exercise throughout the book that help us work through the effects of unresolved childhood trauma.

The Body Keeps the Score

In this book, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk explores how trauma creates physical changes in our bodies and brains which deeply affect our lived experiences. He shares multiple treatments that have been shown to be effective in working with trauma, from EMDR to mindfulness and yoga.

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Positive Reviews From Our Satisfied Clients From Chicago, IL

E.S. writes on google reviews, "My therapist has been super friendly and understanding and, this was my first time seeing a therapist and I was initially nervous but she immediately eased my nerves. Plus fidget toys to play with during sessions!!"

Also on google, E.J. wrote of our owner, Jason Best, "Compassionate, insightful, productive. Jason was a tremendous help during a very rough period of my life. His capacity for empathy, compassion, and solutions/action-based therapy are phenomenal. He doesn't dominate the conversation by any means, but he's certainly not the type of therapist that just sits there and listens, giving you nothing back."

From our Psychology Today account, from Luke Adams, Marriage & Family Therapist, 'Jason Best, and his team at BestTherapies, are among the very *best* inclusive Emotion Experts, Trauma-Informed Therapists, Gender Guides, and Sex-Positive Relationship Nerds, in Chicago, and they are my go-to referrals when I’m not available.'

From our Psychology Today account, from Laura Grimes, "Jason is a great clinician and practice owner. He is honest, clinically sound, empathic, and committed to the highest levels of ethics and values."