Trauma / PTSD
Whether you or someone you love has gone through a life-threatening event (PTSD), or you’ve gone through other types of traumatic experiences, it can have a significant effect on your mental health and relationships. We can find ourselves thinking that people love us and we love them, but struggling to feel safe or comfortable telling them what we’re feeling. Other times we find ourselves having a really strong fear or anxiety reaction in a situation that isn’t threatening.
Individual Trauma or PTSD Counseling
Individual counseling is ideal for PTSD and trauma because you can work through your trauma in a very safe and predictable environment where they are less likely to be triggered in an unplanned way. Trauma and PTSD work is challenging, but having a caring, talented therapist to guide you through it can be a critical part of your journey to healing.
Once you submit your form we give you a quote on what it will cost, use some questionnaires to better understand any therapist preferences you have as well as a baseline look at some of your symptoms. Based on that, a licensed therapist will evaluate which therapists would likely be the best fit, and then you will pick the best therapist from that shortened list. Ready to get started?
PTSD and Trauma Symptoms
PTSD and trauma have some overlap. Trauma are things that shape our lives in similar ways as PTSD, but where the experiences that created teh response do not meet criterion for PTSD. They can however, impact our life and relationships in significant ways. PTSD symptoms can include:
- You were exposed to: death, threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury, or actual or threatened sexual violence, in the following way(s):
- Direct exposure
- Witnessing the trauma
- Learning that the trauma happened to a close relative or close friend
- Indirect exposure to aversive details of the trauma usually in the course of professional duties (e.g., first responders, medics)
- The event is persistently re-experienced, in the following way(s):
- Unwanted upsetting memories
- Nightmares
- Flashbacks
- Emotional distress after exposure to traumatic reminders
- Physical reactivity after exposure to traumatic reminders
- Avoidance of trauma-related stimuli after the trauma, in the following way(s):
- Trauma-related thoughts or feelings
- Trauma-related reminders
- Negative thoughts or feelings that began or worsened after the trauma, in the following way(s):
- Inability to recall key features of the trauma
- Overly negative thoughts and assumptions about oneself or the world
- Exaggerated blame of self or others for causing the trauma
- Negative affect
- Decreased interest in activities
- Feeling isolated
- Difficulty experiencing positive affect
- Trauma-related arousal and reactivity that began or worsened after the trauma, in the following way(s):
- Irritability or aggression
- Risky or destructive behavior
- Hypervigilance
- Heightened startle reaction
- Difficulty concentrating
- Difficulty sleeping
PTSD and Trauma Symptoms
PTSD and trauma have some overlap. Trauma are things that shape our lives in similar ways as PTSD, but where the experiences that created teh response do not meet criterion for PTSD. They can however, impact our life and relationships in significant ways. PTSD symptoms can include:
- You were exposed to: death, threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury, or actual or threatened sexual violence, in the following way(s):
- Direct exposure
- Witnessing the trauma
- Learning that the trauma happened to a close relative or close friend
- Indirect exposure to aversive details of the trauma usually in the course of professional duties (e.g., first responders, medics)
- The event is persistently re-experienced, in the following way(s):
- Unwanted upsetting memories
- Nightmares
- Flashbacks
- Emotional distress after exposure to traumatic reminders
- Physical reactivity after exposure to traumatic reminders
- Avoidance of trauma-related stimuli after the trauma, in the following way(s):
- Trauma-related thoughts or feelings
- Trauma-related reminders
- Negative thoughts or feelings that began or worsened after the trauma, in the following way(s):
- Inability to recall key features of the trauma
- Overly negative thoughts and assumptions about oneself or the world
- Exaggerated blame of self or others for causing the trauma
- Negative affect
- Decreased interest in activities
- Feeling isolated
- Difficulty experiencing positive affect
- Trauma-related arousal and reactivity that began or worsened after the trauma, in the following way(s):
- Irritability or aggression
- Risky or destructive behavior
- Hypervigilance
- Heightened startle reaction
- Difficulty concentrating
- Difficulty sleeping
Trackable Progress
You won’t have to ask yourself is counseling is doing anything. You and your therapist will know without a doubt whether the counseling is leading to any results. Using our software you’ll be able to check your symptom levels, your goals, your progress on them, and the outside of session focus for the week.
In addition, we’ll be adding to our content library so that you can empower yourself through reading, watching, or listening to reliable information about mental health and the ways in which counseling works to actually change your life. That information further empowers you to dialogue with your therapist and be clear with them about what you want and where you want to go as you discover it where your journey with depression, anxiety, trauma, or other issues takes you.
These are the issues that can cause a lot of embarrassment, frustration, disconnection, and low self-worth as we struggle without body and mind’s reaction to the world around us. In these situations we need someone that can listen without judging us, help us make sense of our behaviors and feelings so we can judge ourselves less, and begin to experience better functioning in our everyday life.
This takes a therapist with specific training and experience, and a mind focused on the growth and healing you want to go through. Clarity has therapists with specialized training and a focus on the goals that matter to you.
Core Services
$160/session (or copay/coinsurance)
- Online-only appointments
- Insurance accepted
- Kaiser of Northern California, Optum, PHP/Carelon, and out-of-network with other insurance companies
- Skilled, personalized matching
- Well-trained therapists
- Goal-oriented therapy
Sliding Scale
- PhD and PsyD students (second year) can be seen online-only from $80-105 per session.
Comprehensive Support
$800/month
- Online or In-Person appointments (if near one of our locations)
- Insurance is NOT accepted, but you can submit reimbursement if you have out of network benefits
- Up to four 50-minute, or two 2-hour sessions per month
- Skilled, personalized matching
- Therapists with greater experience, demonstrated skill, and specific training with your issue
- Access to exclusive how-to’s, well-researched education, and skills library
- Access to exclusive live seminars on the topics most relevant to you
- Four free post-therapy life coaching sessions to transition from recovering to thriving
Groups & Community
LonelyLess Program
This coaching program helps people form deep connections and decrease their sense of loneliness.
$40/week
- Weekly, live online classes focused on our core practices of Reflect, Listen, and Speak
- Access to skills groups to practice the skills with the support of our team and your peers
- Access to implementation groups lead by one of our team members with your peers to help you navigate any difficulties that arise when you apply the skills in your personal life
- Access to 1:1 coaching appointments as need with a member of our team
- Access to community discussions with other people working on the same skills with therapist moderators joining the conversation
Note: Psychological Associates (second year) can be seen online-only from $80-105 per session.
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