What this can feel like
- Feeling pulled back into past events.
- Avoiding reminders or situations linked to trauma.
- Being easily startled, tense, angry or shut down.
Trauma Therapy
PTSD-related difficulties
PTSD-related difficulties may include intrusive memories, avoidance, threat sensitivity and changes in mood or arousal.
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Understanding the difficulty
What does this mean clinically?
Post-traumatic stress disorder can develop after exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violence. Its core pattern includes re-experiencing, avoidance, an ongoing sense of threat and changes in thoughts, mood or arousal that persist and impair daily life. Diagnosis requires a full clinical assessment, including the timing of symptoms and other possible explanations.
How it can affect daily life
- Relationships, sleep, work and concentration may be disrupted.
- The person may feel unlike themselves.
- Daily routines may become organised around avoiding reminders.
How therapy can help
- Assess what support is appropriate and safe.
- Work with stabilisation and coping before deeper trauma work where needed.
- Support functioning, safety and regulation.
Anchor-Based Approach
How ABA strengthens the treatment plan
ABA gives PTSD-related work a structured way to track how symptoms affect anchors such as sleep, safety, relationships and routines.
The framework connects the clinical formulation to focused priorities, practical strategies and change that can be examined in everyday life.
What meaningful progress looks like
Progress is not limited to feeling better during a session. It is reflected in greater freedom, steadier functioning, less avoidance and a stronger ability to respond differently when the old pattern is activated.
Keep exploring
More in Trauma Therapy
Trauma symptoms
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Emotional dysregulation after trauma
After trauma, emotions may feel intense, sudden, confusing or difficult to settle.
Safety, trust and relationship difficulties
Trauma can affect how safe a person feels with themselves, others and the world.
Next step
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Take the first step
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