Center for Trauma Care & Healing
Compassionate, evidence-based trauma therapy.
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Individual trauma therapy is available by telehealth. The Trauma IOP is in-person only.
Whether you're navigating the effects of a single traumatic event or working through complex trauma, our clinicians use proven modalities — EMDR, Brainspotting, CPT, TF-CBT, and ART — to help you safely process and regain emotional balance.
Who this is for
You might be here because…
- You're carrying the effects of a single traumatic event — accident, assault, loss, medical event
- You're working through complex or developmental trauma with roots in childhood
- You experience flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, or trouble feeling safe
- You're a first responder, healthcare worker, or veteran processing job-related trauma
- Talk therapy alone hasn't reached the part of you that still feels stuck
What to expect
A clear path to getting started.
Book a virtual intake
Schedule online or talk with an Intake Coordinator about what you're working on. They'll match you to a CTCH clinician with the right modality training (EMDR, Brainspotting, CPT, TF-CBT, or ART).
Stabilization & relationship-building
Your clinician will spend the first few sessions getting to know you, building safety, and teaching grounding skills. Trauma work doesn't start until you feel ready and resourced.
Targeted trauma processing
Using the modality that fits — EMDR, Brainspotting, CPT, TF-CBT, or ART — your clinician helps you safely process specific traumatic memories so they lose their grip on your nervous system.
Integration & post-traumatic growth
As processing continues, the work shifts toward rebuilding identity, relationships, and meaning. Many clients describe a shift from 'surviving' to feeling like themselves again.
How to get started
Ready to take a step toward healing?
Trauma care works best when the clinician is the right fit. Tell us a little about what you're looking for and we'll match you with a trauma-trained clinician — or call us and an Intake Coordinator will walk you through the options.
Areas of focus
Specialties of our trauma clinicians
Click any focus area to see clinicians who specialize in it.
- Trauma
- PTSD
- Grief and Loss
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Military/Veterans
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Suicidal Ideation
- Attachment
Ways we meet and treat trauma
Our trauma clinicians draw from a range of evidence-based and integrative approaches. Click any modality to see the clinicians who use it.
EMDR
A structured therapy that uses guided bilateral stimulation (often eye movements) to help the brain reprocess stuck traumatic memories so they lose their emotional charge.
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A short-term, eye-movement-based therapy that helps replace distressing trauma imagery with calmer mental pictures — many people see meaningful change in 1–5 sessions.
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Uses fixed eye positions to access and release trauma stored in the deeper, body-based parts of the brain that talk therapy alone often can't reach.
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Combines cognitive-behavioral tools with trauma-specific skills. Especially well-suited for children, teens, and families processing recent or developmental trauma.
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A 12-session protocol that helps you identify and shift the unhelpful trauma-related beliefs ("stuck points") that keep PTSD symptoms running.
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Real-time signals from your own nervous system — heart rate, breathing, muscle tension — that you learn to calm intentionally. Especially helpful for hyperarousal, panic, and chronic stress responses.
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Treats your inner world as a system of "parts" — protectors, exiles, the wounded young self — and helps each part find a healthier role in your life today.
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Targets long-standing patterns that form after early or repeated trauma — useful for complex trauma and entrenched relational or identity patterns that resist briefer approaches.
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Do we take your insurance?
Pick your plan to see clinicians who accept it.
Intensive program
TraumaWise — our trauma IOP
TraumaWise is MMHC's intensive outpatient program for clients whose trauma needs more than weekly therapy can hold. The program blends evidence-based trauma modalities with body-based and somatic work in a structured group + individual format. Because TraumaWise is intake-coordinated rather than open-scheduled, getting started begins with a short conversation with our team about fit, timing, and what the program looks like.
Reach out about TraumaWiseCommon questions
Frequently asked
Is what I'm dealing with 'really' trauma?
If something happened that overwhelmed your ability to cope, and you're still feeling its effects, it's worth talking to a trauma clinician — regardless of how it compares to anyone else's experience. Trauma is defined by your nervous system's response, not by the size of the event.
What's EMDR, and is it as weird as it sounds?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) uses bilateral stimulation — usually eye movements, taps, or sounds — while you bring traumatic memories to mind. It sounds unusual, but it has 30+ years of research showing it helps the brain process stuck memories so they no longer trigger the same intense reactions. Most clients feel it works without fully understanding why.
How long does trauma therapy take?
It varies a lot. A single recent event might be processed in 8–16 sessions of EMDR or CPT. Complex or developmental trauma often takes longer — months to years — because there's typically more memory and more identity work involved. Your clinician will talk through realistic timelines based on what you're working on.
What if processing my trauma makes me feel worse?
Trauma processing can temporarily activate distressing feelings — that's part of why we spend the early sessions on stabilization and grounding skills before going near the hard material. If something feels too intense, your clinician will slow down. You're always in charge of the pace.
Do you treat first responders, veterans, or healthcare workers?
Yes. Several CTCH clinicians have specific experience with first responder, military, and healthcare worker trauma. The job-related elements — moral injury, repeated exposure, the pressure to keep going — need clinicians who get the context.
Related services
Other ways we can help
Therapy
Talk therapy for adults — often a starting point before trauma-specific work.
Learn morePsychiatry
Medication consultation, often paired with trauma therapy for sleep, anxiety, or depression.
Learn moreReproductive mental health
Specialized care for birth trauma, fertility loss, and perinatal trauma.
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Ready when you are.
Trauma work is at its own pace. Start with a virtual intake — we'll match you to the right CTCH clinician and you can decide what comes next.