Specialist counselling from a humanistic and integrative perspective, on a one-to-one basis, in a welcoming and safe environment for male and female survivors over the age of 16, affected by or living with the traumatic effects of childhood sexual abuse, adult sexual violence, including rape and sexual exploitation. A rape crisis service for both male and female victims of sexual violence. Counselling, support and information for partners and other family members.
Are you persistently re-experiencing distressing memories, frequent dreams or nightmares and panic attacks?
Do you have difficulty falling or staying asleep and act or feel as if you are reliving the traumatic event over and over again, including a sense of fully reliving the experience through dissociative episodes (flashbacks)?
On-guard and tense all the time (hypervigilant), unable to relax, feeling fatigued, with an exaggerated startled response to sudden noises, the sight of reminiscent cues, or unexpected touch?
Do you feel depressed, detached or estranged from others and emotionally disconnected from the realities around you, suffering baffling chronic pain conditions that appear to have no obvious medical cause.
If you are feeling irritable, angry, anxious and overwhelmed, please contact us. We offer a choice of male or female counsellors. Therapeutic support is also available if you are experiencing relationship difficulties or domestic violence.
Please give us a call on our central number: 01482 226677
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The above symptoms are common reactions to trauma and over time can result in post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Trauma is pain buried alive and these memories are not absorbed by our thinking brain, the way that ordinary memories are, instead the ‘hippocampus’, which holds your conscious memory becomes inactive so that strong emotion is held in the right hemisphere part of your brain called the ‘amygdale’, which is one of the earliest and most primitive parts of the brain.