Trauma treatment that gives you back the places avoidance took.

Why avoidance keeps PTSD going

After trauma, avoidance is a reasonable strategy — it works, briefly. But every avoided situation teaches the nervous system that the danger is still present and that you could not have handled it. Over time your world narrows, and the memory never gets the chance to be filed as something that happened rather than something happening.

How Prolonged Exposure changes that

PE reverses the pattern deliberately. Through imaginal exposure, you revisit the traumatic memory in a controlled, repeated way until it becomes tolerable to think about. Through in-vivo exposure, you re-enter safe situations you have been avoiding, in an order you help set. Breathing retraining and education about trauma responses support the work throughout.

Sessions are usually weekly and often 90 minutes, running roughly 8 to 15 sessions. You will always know what a session involves before it starts. Nothing is sprung on you.

Safety and pacing

Before exposure begins, we look honestly at current risk, substance use, and support. If stabilization or skills work should come first, we do that first. Trauma treatment done at the wrong moment is not brave, it's ineffective — and pacing is a clinical decision we make together.

What recovery tends to look like

Intrusive symptoms lose their charge. Sleep often improves. Places and people come back into reach. Many people describe the memory as still sad but no longer commanding.