Trauma therapy is critical for men and women battling a painful past. When the brain doesn’t deal with trauma but tucks it away, that trauma comes back throughout their lifetime. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often goes hand-in-hand with substance abuse. However, trauma-informed care for addiction can make a difference and can lead to lifelong recovery. Learn more about the benefits of trauma-informed care and reach out to a treatment center near you today.
What Is Trauma-Informed Care?
The term trauma-informed care focuses on changing the language and focus of care. Instead of asking, “What’s wrong with you?” as is typical, the question becomes, “What happened to you?” The difference seems minimal, but the focus allows therapists and clients to look at what’s really behind mental health issues or substance use disorders.
In this type of care, it’s possible to create a clear picture of a person’s life situation. It looks at both past and present circumstances. Understanding this allows therapists to create more effective treatment services. Those services are designed to help a person heal.
Why Use Trauma-Informed Care?
Trauma therapy in this form can offer numerous benefits to both therapists, who gain more insight into what’s happened, and clients. Some of the benefits include:
- Improving treatment adherence – A person may be more likely to use the skills taught to them in therapy
- More engagement in therapy – This approach helps participants be willing to participate and open up in care
- Safety plan creation – Helps reduce fear and worry
- Reduces the risk of future trauma – Participants won’t be traumatized again in the same manner
- Better health outcomes – Better treatment promotes long-term recovery
In addition to this, the care a person receives will be specific to their goals and needs. That helps to reduce avoidable care that may be costly and not appropriate for a person. That reduces overall health care costs and may encourage people to seek out addiction treatment more often.
How Trauma-Informed Care Promotes Long-Term Recovery
Men and women working through trauma therapy benefit from better understanding what’s happened to them, why, and what it means for their future. It allows them to recognize why they have negative thought patterns or react to situations in harmful ways. Acknowledging how trauma has impacted their thoughts and behaviors can help participants make different choices in the future, which can reduce the risk of relapse.
Trauma-informed care creates new opportunities for healing. With more information about what’s happened, a person is better able to move beyond it. Therapies are more specific, but they are also impactful from the start. This can open the door for treatment that’s effective sooner, improving a person’s quality of life.
Some people don’t have a conscious memory of trauma. It is not until they are in therapy that they begin to realize what’s happened to them. The goal is not to relive this pain, but to break the impact it has on today. Doing this can significantly improve outcomes and quality of life.
Trauma-Informed Care Is Part of Mental Health Treatment
For those struggling with addiction or mental health disorders, a range of therapies can help. Trauma-informed care is the structural foundation of each of these therapies. That is, treatment is delivered with an understanding of that past trauma. At Serenity Light Recovery, we can offer a range of therapies that may offer support and healing. That may include therapies such as:
- Equine therapy programs
- Group therapy programs
- Family therapy programs
- Yoga therapy programs
- SMART recovery programs
- Biofeedback therapy programs
Don’t Put Off Having a Better Life – Call Serenity Light Recovery Today
Trauma-informed care is one of the services our master clinicians and therapists offer at Serenity Light Recovery. Our comprehensive mental health treatment provides one-on-one support using the most innovative and effective programs. Learn more by connecting with us online or calling (281) 431-6700 today.
As our CEO, Heather’s main calling is to stay true to the vision of the organization, which is saving lives and striving to redefine statistics by raising the standard of care with evolving treatment methods. Heather studied psychology at LSU and both the main and Clear Lake campuses of the University of Houston, and she is a certified IASIS provider and CPI instructor. She’s been helping people in recovery since 2011. Heather’s motto to live by is “I am not what I’ve done; I am what I’ve overcome.”
