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Trauma-Focused Therapy for PTSD, Anxiety, and Addiction
Trauma can keep you stuck in survival mode, even long after the threat is gone. Trauma-Focused Therapy at The Haven Detox helps you understand what you’ve been through, manage symptoms like anxiety, flashbacks, or numbness, and start feeling more steady, safe, and connected again.
Understanding Trauma-Focused Therapy
Trauma-Focused Therapy is designed to help you feel more stable, clear-headed, and in control after traumatic experiences. Whether your symptoms include panic, emotional shutdown, or difficulty trusting others, this therapy gives you a structured, step-by-step way to feel better—without forcing you to relive the past.
You’ll learn specific techniques to help your body and brain calm down during high-stress moments. This includes grounding exercises to reconnect with your surroundings, breathwork to slow your heart rate and thoughts, and simple tracking tools to spot patterns in your emotional responses. These tools aren’t vague suggestions—they’re practical, repeatable, and useful in real-life moments when symptoms hit.
Therapy isn’t about guessing whether it’s working. You and your therapist will set real, tangible goals—like falling asleep faster, reducing the intensity of panic attacks, or responding with less irritability in tough situations. You’ll regularly check in on these goals and adjust as needed, so you can actually see and feel your progress over time.
Trauma symptoms don’t vanish overnight—but with consistent work, your nervous system can begin to feel safer, and your responses can shift. Instead of reacting from fear, you’ll learn how to pause, assess, and choose how to respond. These shifts in thought and behavior become habits that stick, even long after therapy ends.
How Trauma-Focused Therapy Works
Trauma therapy moves at your pace. Each step is designed to help you feel safe, supported, and better equipped to handle daily challenges:
Build a Foundation of Safety
The first step is helping your body and mind feel safe again. You’ll learn how to notice early signs of overwhelm and use tools—like body scans, grounding, or orienting—to bring yourself back to the present. Safety skills come first, before any work with past memories.
Understand How Trauma Affects You
You’ll explore how trauma shows up in your daily life—whether that’s anxiety, avoidance, shutting down, or physical stress symptoms. Seeing these patterns clearly helps you understand what’s happening now, not just what happened then.
Explore When You're Ready
If and when you feel ready, your therapist may guide you through trauma-focused methods such as EMDR or CBT. These approaches help you revisit difficult memories safely, reducing their intensity without overwhelming you.
Practice Real-Life Coping Skills
Sessions focus on tools you can use immediately: setting boundaries in relationships, calming your body during stress, or managing shutdown and emotional flooding. Practicing these skills in session makes them easier to use outside of therapy.
Rebuild Trust and Connection
Trauma can damage trust—not just in others, but in yourself. Therapy helps you rebuild both. You’ll learn to recognize when fear or self-doubt is taking over, and how to create new ways of relating to people in your life. That includes setting boundaries, expressing needs clearly, and reconnecting without losing your sense of safety.
Experts in Trauma-Focused Therapy
Trauma-Focused Therapy at The Haven Detox is led by licensed clinicians with specialized training in trauma care, including CBT, EMDR, and other evidence-based approaches. Our therapists have years of experience helping patients manage symptoms like anxiety, panic, and PTSD while also supporting those coping with trauma and substance use. Each clinician is trained to move at your pace, create a safe environment, and provide practical tools that work both in session and in daily life.
Lead Therapist
- Helps clients build coping strategies for daily life.
EMDR Therapist
- Provides compassionate, client-centered care.
EMDR Certified Therapist
- 6+ years of experience helping individuals process and heal from trauma
Most Common Conditions We Treat With Trauma-Focused Therapy
Trauma therapy can help with a wide range of symptoms and diagnoses—especially when trauma is at the root of mental health or substance use challenges.
Substance Use and Trauma
Many people turn to alcohol or drugs to manage trauma symptoms like anxiety, flashbacks, or emotional pain. Trauma therapy helps you understand that link and replace those coping methods with safer, more sustainable tools. The focus is on healing—not just stopping the behavior.
Relationship Distress
Trauma can make closeness feel unsafe, causing withdrawal, fear, or emotional shutdown. Therapy helps you understand your patterns and build new ways to relate to others—whether that’s rebuilding trust with a partner or feeling safe being vulnerable with anyone at all.
Depression and Emotional Numbness
Trauma often leads to deep exhaustion, low motivation, or feeling emotionally flat. Therapy helps you reconnect with what you feel—and what you’ve stopped allowing yourself to feel. Together, you’ll work to untangle guilt, shame, or hopelessness that might be rooted in trauma.
Anxiety Disorders
You’ll develop strategies to manage racing thoughts, physical panic symptoms, and spiraling worst-case thinking. This includes both body-based techniques to calm your system and cognitive tools to challenge the fears that fuel anxiety. Over time, panic becomes something you can predict and manage—not something that runs your life.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Therapy helps you gradually process traumatic events without reliving them. You’ll learn how to reduce flashbacks, stop avoiding triggers, and feel more in control of your responses. The goal isn’t to erase what happened—it’s to make sure it no longer controls you.
Sleep Disorders
If trauma makes it hard to fall or stay asleep, therapy gives you strategies to calm your nervous system at night. This might include sensory grounding, breathwork, or a structured wind-down routine to signal safety to your brain. The goal is to help your body stop treating nighttime like a threat.
A Supportive Trauma Therapy Setting
Trauma therapy works best in a calm, steady environment. At The Haven Detox, you’ll have access to quiet therapy spaces, supportive staff, and a structured routine that helps you feel safe, not overwhelmed. Everything is designed to support emotional regulation and give you space to breathe, process, and grow.
Relaxed Environment for Mental Clarity
Relate to Peers
Learn Healthy Coping Mechanisms
Trauma-Focused Therapy Is Available at All The Haven Detox Locations
Find Trauma-Focused Therapy at every Haven Detox facility—from retreat-style settings to centers closer to home. Wherever you are, trauma care is built into your personalized plan with expert, licensed professionals who know how to help.
The Haven Detox - Florida
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The Haven Detox - Arizona
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The Haven Detox - New Jersey
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The Haven Detox - West Memphis
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The Haven Detox - New England
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The Haven Detox - Little Rock
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Trauma Therapy Success Stories
Cameron S.
Such a nice detox facility with incredibly awesome staff. This place helped me put the pieces together when I was utterly broken. 10/10 would recommend!
Kevin O.
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I finally started with a Trauma Specialized Therapist in the last 6 months- -and I cannot say enough positive things about it. For me it has been incredibly eye opening to really work at the roots of why my family of origin are such triggers of stress and anxiety.
Insurance & Cost Information for Trauma Therapy
Insurance companies usually cover trauma therapy when it’s part of a licensed mental health or addiction program, since PTSD, anxiety, and trauma-related conditions are recognized as treatable medical issues. Coverage can depend on your plan, the type of therapy used (like CBT or EMDR), and whether it’s done inpatient or outpatient. At The Haven Detox, we’ll verify your benefits for free before you begin, so you know exactly what’s covered and what to expect.
Frequently Asked Questions About Trauma Therapy
Do I have to relive my trauma in therapy?
No. Trauma therapy isn’t about forcing you to retell everything that happened. Treatment begins with skills like grounding, breathwork, and emotional regulation so you feel safe and stable. If and when you choose to process trauma memories, your therapist will guide you carefully—using approaches like EMDR or CBT that are designed to reduce overwhelm.
What makes Trauma-Focused Therapy different from regular counseling?
General counseling can help with stress and emotions, but Trauma-Focused Therapy directly targets the symptoms of PTSD and trauma. It combines evidence-based methods—such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)—to help reprocess traumatic experiences, reduce flashbacks, and calm your nervous system.
Is Trauma-Focused Therapy covered by insurance?
Most major insurance plans cover trauma treatment when it’s part of a licensed mental health or addiction program. We provide a free, confidential insurance verification so you know your options before you begin.
Can trauma therapy help if I also struggle with addiction?
Yes. Many people turn to alcohol or drugs to cope with trauma. At The Haven Detox, trauma treatment is fully integrated with substance use treatment. Addressing both at the same time lowers the risk of relapse and helps you build healthier coping strategies.
How long does Trauma-Focused Therapy take?
It varies by person. Many patients attend between 8 and 20 sessions, but the pace depends on your needs, goals, and comfort level. Some focus on short-term symptom relief, while others take more time to process past experiences. Your therapist will work with you to create a plan that fits.
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