Trauma & Healing
Healing Is Possible, Even If You Don’t Know Where to Start
If you’re carrying the weight of trauma, painful memories, or grief that feels too heavy to face alone, you’re not weak, and you’re not alone. At Minnesota Behavioral Health, we offer gentle, trauma-informed care designed to help you feel safe in your body and your story again. Whether it’s recent or rooted in the past, your healing matters. We’ll move at your pace, together.
How Trauma Shows Up
You may not always connect your symptoms to trauma, but your body and mind remember, even when you try to move on.
- Emotional: anxiety, irritability, depression, emotional numbness
- Physical: chronic fatigue, headaches, digestive issues, sleep disturbances
- Relational: trust issues, withdrawal, codependency, or people-pleasing
- Behavioral: avoidance, overworking, self-medicating, emotional outbursts
How We Help
PTSD & Trauma Recovery
Living with PTSD can feel like your nervous system is stuck in survival mode, even when you know you’re safe.
Common signs include:
- Flashbacks or intrusive memories
- Avoiding reminders of the trauma
- Emotional numbness or disconnection
- Being easily startled or hyper-alert
We help you:
- Regain a sense of control
- Reconnect with your body and emotions
- Process traumatic memories without reliving them
- Move from constant survival to intentional healing
Whether your trauma stems from violence, childhood abuse, medical trauma, or a major loss, you are not alone, and your symptoms are valid.
Grief & Complicated Loss
We support grief related to:
- Sudden or traumatic loss
- Miscarriage or fertility loss
- Estrangement or ambiguous loss
- Collective grief (e.g., community tragedy, pandemic-related loss)
Our approach includes:
- Space to honor and express your pain
- Tools to process and integrate your loss
- Support to reengage with life and meaning — without “moving on” before you’re ready
Grief may change you, but it doesn’t have to consume you.
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Not all therapy is trauma-informed. We take great care to ensure your experience with us is grounded in:
- Safety: You’re in control of the pace and what you share
- Trust: We build a stable, supportive relationship over time
- Choice: You always have a say in your treatment direction
- Empowerment: You’re seen as the expert in your own life
Therapies we offer may include:
- Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Somatic approaches that connect mind and body
- Narrative Therapy to help you reshape your story
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for emotional regulation
- Mindfulness-based tools for grounding and present-moment safety
What Healing Looks Like
Your Experience
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing)
ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy)
DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)
IFS (Internal Family Systems)
Mindfulness-Based Therapies
Narrative Therapy
Somatic Techniques
Psychiatric Services
Telehealth & In-Person Sessions
Our Response
Helps reprocess traumatic memories without reliving the pain
Builds psychological flexibility while working with painful thoughts and emotions
Strengthens emotional regulation, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness
Addresses wounded inner parts with compassion to restore internal balance
Supports grounding, present-moment awareness, and nervous system regulation
Helps reframe and reclaim your story from a place of strength and meaning
Connects mind and body to release trauma stored physically
Medication management and evaluations for trauma-related symptoms (if needed)
Flexible access to care — trauma-informed therapy, wherever you are
Ready to Feel Safe Again?
You don’t have to keep carrying the weight of the past alone. Healing begins with one small, brave step, and we’re here to walk with you every step of the way. At Minnesota Behavioral Health, you’ll find a space built on safety, trust, and mutual respect. You’re in control, and we’ll move at your pace.
Let today be the day you start choosing healing.
