Trauma and PTSD therapists in Whitburn, Scotland Scotland, United Kingdom GB
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Trauma and PTSD
Mario Uosis-Martin
Counsellor/Therapist, PGDip (Level 7) Advanced Psychotherapy
As a therapist with extensive experience in trauma and PTSD, I offer online therapy to clients across the UK and EU. I provide a compassionate and trauma-informed space to help you process and heal from past events. Together, we work on reclaiming your sense of safety and control, fostering resilience, and supporting long-term recovery from trauma.
6 Years Experience
Online in Whitburn, Scotland (Online Only)
Trauma and PTSD
ICA Counselling and Supervision
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MSW, RSW
At ICA Counselling & Supervision, we provide specialized support for individuals dealing with trauma and PTSD, recognizing the profound impact that traumatic experiences can have on all aspects of life. Our approach is trauma-informed, compassionate, and tailored to help you feel safe as you process difficult memories and emotions. Using evidence-based therapies like CBT for Trauma, DBT, and mindfulness, we work to address the emotional, cognitive, and physical effects of trauma. Together, we’ll focus on building resilience, developing healthy coping strategies, and reclaiming a sense of control and peace. Whether you’re facing recent trauma or working through long-term PTSD, we’re here to support you on your healing journey
22 Years Experience
Online in Whitburn, Scotland
Trauma and PTSD
Solutions Counselling
Registered Psychotherapist, Prof.Dip.Psy.C
Shock and denial are typical early response to trauma. In some cases the person will try to ignore their pain and 'get over it ' or even deny that they have been affected. Left untreated trauma can have devastating effects. At Solutions Counselling we do not treat trauma by asking people to repeatedly re-live the traumatic event. EMDR is a proven method towards healing for those with Trauma or PTSD.
29 Years Experience
Online in Whitburn, Scotland
Trauma and PTSD
Sara Aicart-Pendlebury
Art Therapist, Human Givens Practitioner (HG.Dip.P), Member of Human Givens Institute, IFS therapist Levels 1&2, Narm Practitioner
PHOBIAS, PANIC ATTACKS AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS
The brain has an emotional alarm system designed to keep us safe. When people suffer from panic attacks, phobias or post-traumatic stress, it is because the system has gone into overdrive.
What happens is this. There is a small, structure in the brain, known as the amygdala (Greek for almond, which is its shape), that has access to our emotional memories and learned responses. It evolved in the distant past and its job is to match new circumstances to what is already in the store and alert us to anything that previously represented a risk and might do so again. In the distant past, this might have been a movement or flash of colour that could have signified an approaching predator. The amygdala would then have triggered changes to help the body get ready to fight or flee the danger – pounding heart, racing pulse, quick, shallow breathing, etc.
Now imagine this. A young woman, who has had a highly stressful day, is waiting in a long supermarket queue, worrying whether she’ll be out of the shop in time to catch the bus to school to collect her little girl. It is one pressure too many. The amygdala responds as if she is under threat and she starts to feel her heart pounding strangely and her breathing quickens. She becomes terrified that she is having a heart attack and that makes the symptoms escalate – her palms sweat; her chest feels as if it is bursting and she struggles to breathe. Soon she feels overwhelmed and may collapse or run out of the shop. The amygdala, fearful that this could happen again, files away the fact that there were bright lights and lots of people queuing when the ‘threat’ occurred. Then, when the woman is queuing in the post office the next day, the bright lights and queue may be sufficient for the over-vigilant amygdala to trigger another panic attack to deal with the new ‘threat’.
Phobias start the same way – the amygdala makes associations with what was going on when a person first felt threatened, not all of which may be relevant. So, while it is understandable that someone who is attacked by a vicious dog may well develop a fear of dogs generally, it could equally be the case that someone develops a fear of broken glass because, on a previous occasion, when they had had a panic attack, there was broken glass lying near to where they collapsed. Agoraphobia develops when someone is too frightened of panic attacks even to leave the house.
In the case of post-traumatic stress, someone who was in the back seat of a car when a collision occurred may find it frightening to travel in the back seat again but there may be other, unconscious, connections with the accident too, such as the smell of petrol. So the person may experience seemingly inexplicable panic when filling up their own car with petrol.
Fortunately, human givens practitioners are taught a simple and effective way to deal with all these circumstances. If a traumatic memory is causing panic attacks, phobias or post-traumatic stress, they can use a powerful, painless visualisation procedure, known as the rewind technique, to take the emotion out of the memory and enable the memory of the event to be stored away as history, instead of as one that continues to intrude on the present. The memory remains, and always will remain, a deeply unpleasant one but no longer is it emotionally arousing. This method can work swiftly and reliably even in the most extreme of cases.
15 Years Experience
Online in Whitburn, Scotland
Trauma and PTSD
James Hitchen - I Am James Therapy & Coaching
Therapist, Psychotherapeutic counselling (level 5), MBACP, AdV member Addiction Professionals, MNCPS accred. National Centre For Eating Disorders
I am member of the International Stress Management Association, am and advanced member of Addiction Professionals registration body and am a member of the Complex Trauma Institute. I am an addictions and eating disorder specialist as well as working with other issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHA, self harm, self esteem, loneliness and other disorders. I offer a range of services from 1:1 and group counselling/coaching sessions. I trained at Richmond College and am strongly informed by 12 step philosophy as well as helping clients to look after their mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health to thrive in life.
7 Years Experience
Online in Whitburn, Scotland