Recent Trauma therapy for children, teens and adults
car accidents
witnessing or experiencing violence
animal accidents/attacks
sudden loss of life of a family member/friend
natural disasters
First Responders and Frontline Workers
workplace accidents
We will directly with your PIP claim with your automobile insurance provider/lawyer. We also work directly with Labor and Industry for workplace accidents.
The longer you wait after experiencing a traumatic event and then experience trauma symptoms, the stronger and more engrained the memory and the symptoms become. Act sooner, rather than later.
I feel overwhelmed. I feel scared all the time. I wonder where the old me is. I am angry all the time. I don’t want to leave the house anymore. I don’t want to drive anymore. I am worried about my job. I am worried about my marriage. I am worried about how my kids see me. I can’t sleep. I eat too much. I eat to little. I avoid people. I avoid places. I keep having nightmares.
— the effects of trauma
Ryan Ferguson, LMHC, MHP, CMHS
I am Ryan Ferguson, LMHC, MHP, CMHS. I have 13 years of experience working with children, teens and adults to reduce and even eliminate the effects of vivid and painful memories and experiences. I use evidenced based therapies that include EMDR, CBT, and DBT to help calm the body to past memories and events to reduced and even eliminate current suffering.
Virtual and In Person sessions available. In person session occur in Lake Tapps, WA in Pierce County.
Trauma reactions are natural but they are exhausting when they don’t turn off but you can live a life where whatever you have may experienced becomes AN event in your life not THE event of your life.
— Ryan Ferguson, LMHC
EMDR
EMDR is an evidenced based therapy that has shown to reduce the effects of recent traumatic events in as little as three sessions.
EMDR helps to move unprocessed traumatic memories from the short term to the long term memory.
When a memory has not been processed correctly our bodies believe that the event is happening now, again, in the present and tries to protect us (as it should) by turning on the alarm bells, turning on anxiety and moving into fight, flight or freeze mode (which is exhausting and at times dibilitating).
By processing the traumatic memory correctly it allows the body to remain calm, still and confident when reminded of traumatic event by a sight, sound, location, smell, touch, person, place, or feeling.