Trauma-Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Trauma-informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a type of mental health treatment used to help people who have experienced trauma find ways to manage hurtful behaviors and emotions. The goal of this therapy is to help the person create a life worth living. This treatment approach is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Therapy helps individuals develop a sense of safety as well as skills to handle the impact of trauma. As a result, the individual can work through mental health issues, keeping them stuck. The therapist must tailor the treatment to the type of trauma the person has experienced, whether it has been ongoing, and who was involved.

How Does Trauma-Informed CBT Work?

Trauma-informed approaches to therapy are based on the idea that trauma impacts our thoughts, feelings, memories, and sensations. This makes it difficult to think clearly or objectively about the trauma or life beforehand.  For this reason, creating a sense of safety for a very small chance that the person will disclose enough

A Trauma-informed therapist helps the person change their thoughts and beliefs about the trauma. As a result, people learn to manage behaviors, thoughts, and emotions that are triggered by past or current overwhelming experiences. People can recover from traumatic experiences through understanding what caused the trauma, accepting that it happened, and finding new meaning from the experience. As a result, when they have a painful emotion or memory, they can respond to it differently.

Trauma-informed approaches to therapy are based on the idea that trauma impacts our thoughts, feelings, memories, and sensations. This makes it difficult to think clearly or objectively about the trauma or life beforehand.  For this reason, creating a sense of safety for a very small chance that the person will disclose enough to allow for healing.