TRAUMA THERAPY HUNTSVILLE AND BIRMINGHAM AL

Trauma Therapists in Huntsville & Birmingham, AL | Trauma-Informed Counseling

Understanding Your Nervous System Changes Everything

Many people come to therapy believing something is wrong with them. They feel anxious, shut down, exhausted, or emotionally reactive and assume it’s a personal failure. We help by teaching you how your nervous system and brain actually work, so your experiences begin to make sense.

When you understand how stress responses form, why your body reacts before your mind, and how past experiences shape present reactions, shame often softens. Instead of fighting yourself, you begin to recognize that your system learned these patterns to survive.

This might include learning:

Why anxiety lives in the body, not just the mind

How shutdown, numbness, or fatigue are protective responses

Why self criticism often shows up during overwhelm

How your brain learned to stay on high alert

What helps your system feel safe enough to settle

This understanding gives you language for what you’re experiencing and helps you respond with compassion rather than judgment. Over time, clients often say things like, “I understand myself better,” or “This explains so much about why I react the way I do.”

Learning how your nervous system works is not about fixing yourself. It’s about building self trust, increasing capacity, and creating internal safety so you can move through life with more steadiness and choice.

A Trauma-Informed Approach to Therapy

Our therapists take a trauma-informed approach that meets you where you are. We combine Lifespan Integration, EMDR, Brainspotting, and Somatic Therapy to help process past experiences, release stored tension, and support lasting emotional regulation. This integrative approach allows you to explore and heal at a pace that feels safe, grounded, and effective.

Lifespan Integration – You’ll process past experiences in a safe, structured way, helping you feel more whole and less triggered by old patterns.

EMDR – You’ll reduce the intensity of distressing memories, allowing you to feel calmer and more in control of your emotional responses.

Brainspotting – You’ll access and process trauma held deep in the brain and nervous system, often beyond words, supporting deeper emotional resolution and nervous system regulation.

Somatic Therapy – You’ll release tension stored in your body and reconnect with a sense of safety and ease in your day-to-day life.

A Path to Wholeness and Self-Compassion

Therapy that helps you feel steady in your own body

Many people come to therapy carrying younger versions of themselves who learned to cope through shutting down, overachieving, staying small, or abandoning their own needs. These parts often hold the exhaustion, fear, pressure, or loneliness that still shows up today.

Together, we gently reconnect with these younger parts so they no longer have to manage everything alone. This work often feels like offering steadiness to the parts of you that were once rejected, neglected, or overlooked. You learn how to reparent yourself with compassion and presence. You begin to understand the patterns of self abandonment you developed for survival and slowly replace them with support, care, and internal safety.

Clients often describe:

• Feeling more grounded and present.
• Noticing anxiety soften.
• Trusting themselves more often.
• Staying connected during big emotions.
• Communicating needs and boundaries more clearly
• Feeling less overwhelmed and more steady in their bodies.

These shifts grow over time and create real change. You learn to meet yourself with patience. You notice when your system is overwhelmed. You connect to your body in ways that bring clarity instead of fear. You build a life that feels more aligned with who you are becoming.

About Liz

Liz uses a blend of evidence-based therapies to help clients process and heal from trauma in a way that feels safe and personalized. She incorporates Lifespan Integration, which helps reconnect past experiences to bring resolution and emotional relief, Brainspotting, a focused technique that targets the body’s natural processing of trauma, and Somatic Therapy, which helps release tension and restore safety in the nervous system. Together, these approaches allow clients to reduce the intensity of past experiences, feel more grounded in the present, and build resilience for the future.

Lifespan integration, Brainspotting, & Somatic therapy

In Person therapy in Huntsville, AL and Online

EMDR Therapist in Birmingham AL and Online

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

About Charles

Charles helps adults explore the roots of shame and guilt while building steadiness and compassion in the present. For some clients, this includes EMDR therapy, a structured and research supported approach that helps the brain process traumatic experiences so they no longer feel as overwhelming or immediate. EMDR does not erase memories, but it often reduces the emotional intensity that keeps you stuck in survival mode.

Over time, many people notice that the inner conflict softens. The critical voice loses some of its hold. The quiet becomes more tolerable. Rest feels possible again.

ACT Therapist in Birmingham AL and Online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT helps you build a different relationship with your thoughts and feelings so they have less control over your choices and your life..

About Adam

Adam uses trauma informed, mindfulness based cognitive therapies to helps you build a healthier relationship with your thoughts and feelings so they no longer control your choices or your life. Adam helps clients build greater flexibility when difficult emotions arise, reduces struggles with anxiety, shame, or self-criticism, and strengthens your connection to what truly matters to you. With these skills, you gain the ability to take meaningful action and move forward, even when challenges feel overwhelming.

We offer both in-person and virtual therapy options.

If you’re interested in starting, please contact the therapist you feel drawn to—each therapist manages their own consultations and scheduling.

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"The essence of trauma is a disconnect from the self. Therefore the essence of healing is not just uncovering one's past but reconnecting with oneself in the present."

— Gabor Maté

Frequently Asked Questions-Trauma Therapy in Huntsville and Birmingham, AL

Trauma therapy helps you process experiences that continue to affect your sense of safety, connection, or self-understanding. Rather than focusing only on what happened, therapy also addresses how your nervous system adapted to protect you. Over time, many clients experience increased stability, emotional regulation, and a greater sense of wholeness.
Trauma doesn’t always involve a single event—it can include ongoing stress, relational wounds, or experiences that felt overwhelming or unsafe. Common signs include emotional reactivity, numbness, anxiety, difficulty trusting, or feeling stuck in old patterns. If something from your past still impacts your present, trauma-informed therapy may be helpful.
Each therapist in our practice brings their own training and areas of specialization, so the type of trauma addressed may vary depending on who you work with. Collectively, we commonly support clients working through grief and loss, attachment trauma, developmental trauma, and single-incident experiences. Therapy remains individualized, with the focus on how experiences have impacted you rather than fitting your story into a specific label.
Our therapists each specialize in different trauma-informed approaches such as Lifespan Integration, EMDR, somatic therapy, and relational work. These methods support processing at both emotional and nervous-system levels. The approach is collaborative and tailored to what feels most supportive for you.
Trauma therapy is not a one-size-fits-all process. Some clients notice changes within a few sessions, while others engage in longer-term work depending on their history and goals. Therapy moves at a pace that supports stability and integration rather than rushing change.
Sessions may include conversation, grounding practices, nervous system tracking, or trauma-processing techniques. The focus is on helping you stay present and regulated while exploring what feels relevant. Sessions are paced carefully to support safety and choice.