Sexual Assault Can Profoundly Affect Your Life — TCM Can Help Your Mind Heal

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Girl Who Has Experienced Trauma

Sexual trauma has long-lasting effects that can impact the way you see the world. Whether you experienced a single traumatic event or years of abusive treatment, the impact can be profound. The Cortina Method, (TCM) is a Neuroscience approach that can help your mind heal trauma. Your mind knows how to heal. It does so everyday. The good news is you won’t have to relive the traumatic event or talk in depth about it.  

The Impact of Trauma

As the brain develops, there are certain key periods of development. When sexual trauma occurs during these crucial periods, it creates a long-lasting imprint. It’s very common to still be affected by it years or even decades later but sexual assault counseling can help.

Trauma may significantly interfere with your relationships and your sense of self, as well as, the level of peace and comfort you experience. Some of the most common signs or symptoms of unresolved sexual trauma include the following:

  • Depression

  • Anxiety

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which may manifest in extreme fear, insomnia, irritability, agitation, or hyper-vigilance

  • Emotional detachment or fear of getting too close to someone

  • Feelings of guilt

  • Shame

  • Loss of pleasure in activities

  • Difficulty trusting

It’s not hard to see how these behavioral effects could impact your life and your relationships. Without intentional efforts to resolve the trauma, you may likely continue to feel the effects throughout your life. But you should know, your mind is powerful and can heal the memory and the trauma.

How Can Sexual Assault Counseling Resolve the Effects of Sexual Trauma?

Therapy clarifies that sexual trauma is never your fault. Unfortunately, many people who have experienced sexual trauma tend to blame themselves for the experience which leaves them carrying the negative effects into their everyday lives. Sexual assault trauma is not the kind of issue that simply goes away if you ignore it. In fact, the opposite is often true.

However Sexual Assault treatment can help your mind heal.

Traumatic events can tend to replay in your mind over and over again, interrupting your thoughts, your focus, and the life you are attempting to live. You may ruminate over what happened. Even though it may have happened many years ago, just thinking about it makes it feel as though it happened recently. Thus drudging up old feelings and emotions that are not to your advantage. You may feel stuck.

The Cortina Method (TCM) can clear your mind so you can experience peace, clarity and a clearing of the traumatic event. You no longer have to be haunted by things that happened to you in the distant past and you can move forward with your life with new hope and meaning. As clients have told me, the event used to be in the forefront every single day they woke up. After TCM the event fades to the backround and no longer holds the importance it once held. Your mind now focuses onthe future and what has value for you.

The Cortina Medthod/ Memory Reconsolidation

The Cortina Method (TCM) is a therapeutic method designed to produce maximum effectiveness in the shortest amount of time. Unlike traditional talk therapy, which can take a long time to work through an issue, TCM Therapy is highly focused and targeted, enabling your mind to soften the pain of trauma. Although some people may be unfamiliar with this method.

Benefits of Therapy for Sexual Trauma

Maybe you have chosen not to talk to those close to you because you worry what they might think or because its just too painful to talk about. Sexual trauma may have created a sense of misplaced shame or guilt. I want you to know… it was never your fault. You are not to blame. You are still the same beautiful person you were before this happened. We know that traumatic events, especially sexual trauma, is hard to talk about. Just because it is so difficult and uncomfortable to discuss does not mean that you must keep it locked up inside forever. You will not be asked to talk about it during TCM Therapy. Your mind already knows what its about- no need to relive it. That is NOT what I want you to do.

Together, with sexual assault therapy we will clear the trauma. I will walk with you in the darkness until the real you, the light of who you are, once again emerges with hope, clarity and a new vitality for life. With TCM Therapy you can be free from feelings of shame, guilt, blame, powerlessness, and helplessness. When you’re free of these limiting beliefs, you become freer and more able to make the most of your potential.

Don’t carry this one moment longer. I can help your mind heal the trauma.

Your mind knows how to heal. It does so everyday.