Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress may sometimes go untreated due to our will to cope. While PTSD can be triggered by incredibly frightening events such as relational abuse or a near-death experience, it can also result from more chronic forms of stress, such as emotional neglect, shame, bullying, etc. Specific patterns of how we were treated in our families growing up were so repetitive that they dramatically impacted our nervous systems and experience of life. These more underlying forms of trauma are just as essential to address as acute PTSD, and our therapists are high-skilled at identifying these issues and helping you work through them.