Trauma counselling is not one-size-fits-all. Each counsellor brings their own training, therapeutic framework, and personal philosophy to the work — and that diversity matters. What I offer is grounded in the Integrative Trauma Recovery Model™: a multimodal, relationship-centred approach that draws from somatic approaches, parts work, EMDR, and trauma-informed relational practice — all of them…
Trauma has become a word that covers everything — a car accident, childhood abuse, decades of systemic violence. This is useful for reducing stigma. It’s less useful for recovery, because it implies that healing looks roughly the same regardless of what happened. It doesn’t. The approach that works for someone processing a single traumatic event…
If you’ve ever swung between feeling completely overwhelmed and feeling nothing at all, you already know what it’s like to live outside your window of tolerance. You may not have had a name for it. But the experiences — the anxiety that won’t settle, the numbness that won’t lift, the sense that your reactions are…
Introduction: Your Guide on the Journey of Healing Trauma Welcome to Trauma Demystified, a podcast by Bright Horizon Therapies. I’m Natalie Jovanic, your host on this journey. In this podcast I draw from my professional expertise as a trauma counsellor and trauma-informed coach, as well as from my lived experience around trauma recovery. In today’s…
When I first began my own healing journey from childhood abuse, I had no idea what recovery looked like or what I would need to get there. The first therapist I worked with operated from the medical model. At the core of our relationship, she looked at me through the lens of “what is wrong…
Trauma is a word we hear constantly, but what trauma actually is is rarely explained clearly enough to be useful. Trauma is not just a difficult event. It is what happens when an experience overwhelms the nervous system’s capacity to process and integrate what occurred. This article offers a deeper look at what trauma is,…
Years ago, I learned in a training: “Boundaries need to be communicated.” As a survivor of childhood abuse, I clung to this rule. I was so eager to heal that I never questioned it — never asked whether it was always useful, or whether context might change everything. That unquestioning compliance was probably its own…
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