It is clear that childhood trauma should be carefully considered when developing treatment strategies for adults with mental illness and/or substance abuse. A thorough trauma assessment is essential as part of the standard psychosocial assessment that is done upon intake. The problem is that if you were to ask most people whether or not they have experienced trauma, the majority will say no. It takes a very specific and specialized skill-set to conduct a trauma assessment, and again, this is not something that even most psychologists and psychiatrists know how to do. Specialized information, training, and skills are needed to work with clients who have been traumatized, whether the trauma was short term and circumscribed or was more extensive and complex.

Some of the trauma therapies that are offered at RESOLUTIONS include: trauma resiliency model (TRM), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), somatic experiencing (SE), internal family systems (IFS), and brainspotting. At RESOLUTIONS, we carefully select which of the many trauma therapies would be most suitable for each client. Many clients can benefit from the evidence-based cognitive approach to trauma resolution. However, others might not respond to talk therapy at all, making cognitive treatment ineffective. Our trauma specialists have the training and experience to know when somatic and brain-based therapies would be more beneficial in such cases.