Trauma Solutions Counseling

12/27/2025

Now Accepting New Clients

At Trauma Solutions Counseling, we provide trauma-focused therapy rooted in compassion, clinical depth, and intentional care. Our work supports healing at a pace that honors your nervous system, your story, and your capacity for growth.

We accept:
• Aetna
• United Healthcare
• Cigna
• Blue Cross Blue Shield

We also offer reasonable self-pay rates for those seeking flexibility or a more private care experience.

If you are a military or family member of a military member (active, honorably discharged, or retired) we have non-profit funding to help you gain access to care.

Our approach is thoughtful and integrative, supporting clarity, regulation, and long-term well-being rather than quick fixes.

In-person sessions in Fort Walton Beach
Telehealth available throughout Florida

Call or text: 850-498-6858
Email: admin@traumasolutionsllc.com

Schedule your appointment for care that honors steady, grounded, and intentional healing.

12/24/2025

⭐️🎄Merry Christmas ⭐️🎄

This season, may you notice the quiet moments, the connections that feel safe, and the presence that doesn’t require doing…just being. Much love and many blessings your way

🤍 Trauma Solutions Counseling
850-498-6858
Fort Walton Beach, FL

12/23/2025

Trauma isn’t about the event itself.
It’s about everything that changed afterward.

When something overwhelming happens, the nervous system adapts to keep us safe. Our bodies are so smart. A moment, sensation, or experience that once felt neutral becomes coded as a threat, because it was, but it might not be anymore. The mind needs to be reminded the threat is gone because the body remembers and continues to send the threat signal

The body is always the first to respond.

A smell.
A sensation.
A place.
An energy.

The body sends the signal, and the brain responds. This doesn’t mean the brain is broken, it means it’s doing exactly what it was designed to do: protect you, based on old information.

Healing doesn’t begin by forcing the brain to “think differently.” It begins with awareness.

When we learn to notice the signal the body is sending, we create space. Space to pause. Space to listen. Space to understand what that original moment made us feel, and where it’s still living inside us.

Once you can name what’s happening in your body, you can begin to rename it.

Just as your nervous system once learned “this is dangerous,” it can also learn “this is safe now.” That learning doesn’t happen overnight. It happens through practice. Through the pause, through the patience, and through compassion for how the body and mind once procted you this way.

When the signal no longer automatically means danger, the nervous system begins to soften, it begins to relax and notice that the threat is no longer there and protection is no longer needed. Our mind and body is so intelligent, sometimes it just needs a little guidance once the threat is gone

And that’s not coping, it’s healing

12/20/2025

If you’ve been holding a lot inside, stress, old experiences, or the weight of simply trying to keep going, you don’t have to do it alone.

At Trauma Solutions Counseling, we offer trauma-focused therapy through a mind–body approach, creating a space where you can slow down, feel safe, and reconnect with yourself at a pace that feels right for you.

Healing takes place whe you met where you’re at, not when you’re trying to push through it.

We offer:
• Trauma-informed, compassionate care
• Mind–body and nervous system–focused therapy
• In-person and telehealth sessions

Insurance accepted:
United,Aetna, Cigna, BCBS

Located in Fort Walton Beach
Call or text: 850-448-6858
Email: admin@traumasolutions.com

Now accepting new clients for the new year.
When you’re ready, we’re here.

12/15/2025

✨ This Year, Choose Healing ✨

You don’t have to keep pushing through.
You don’t have to carry it alone.
And you don’t have to wait until things feel “bad enough.”

At Trauma Solutions Counseling, we understand that trauma lives not just in memories, but in the body, nervous system, and relationships. Healing isn’t about fixing what’s “wrong” with you. It’s about creating safety, restoring connection, and helping your system learn that it’s okay to rest again.

Whether you’re navigating past trauma, chronic stress, life transitions, or simply feeling disconnected from yourself, this can be the year you begin to feel grounded, supported, and whole.

Trauma-informed
Compassion-centered
Rooted in safety, resilience, and growth

348 Miracle Strip Parkway Suite 24 Fort Walton Beach, FL
850-498-6858
www.traumasolutionsllc.com

Healing is not just a resolution, it is creating a better relationship with yourself. Let’s begin it together.

11/27/2025

Today, we pause with grateful hearts.

At Trauma Solutions Counseling, we are thankful for the trust you place in us, the stories you share, and the courage we witness every single day.

Healing is work, and we are honored to walk beside each of you; clients, families, community partners, and supporters.

May your holiday be filled with peace, connection, and moments of rest. Whether today is full of joy complicated, or somewhere in between, please know you are seen, valued, and never alone.

From our Trauma Solutions family to yours,

Happy Thanksgiving. 🧡

11/23/2025

For those with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), protecting others becomes second nature. Worth gets tied to performance, loyalty, and how much of yourself you’re willing to give up to keep others safe. In high-stakes environments, this self-sacrifice is praised, required, and when lives are on the line, the right response for your team.

However, an important question often goes unasked: What happens when the threat ends, yet the sacrifice continues?

Many veterans struggle to stop the pattern of over-functioning, over-giving, and putting themselves last. It’s not because they’re “too nice” or “too committed,” the truth is that it has become the only way they’ve ever known to exist in the world.

Choosing yourself can feel selfish when survival once depended on meeting everyone else’s needs first. But the transition out of service requires a shift:

From self-sacrifice to self-preservation
From hypervigilance to healthy boundaries
From “I only matter when I serve” to “My life has inherent value”

This is healing not weakness. It’s being able to reclaim the parts of you that were never meant to be expendable.

You were willing to die for your country,
are you willing to live for the life you were created to have?

The courage it takes to serve is one only few know, but the bravery to heal is what allows you to live again!

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!” Isaiah 43:18 -19.

11/17/2025

I’ll be set up representing Trauma Solutions and SOF Network. See you there!

Join us in Pensacola for Last Out: Elegy of a Green Beret—a gripping live stage production written by Ret. Green Beret Lt. Col. Scott Mann and performed by combat veterans and military family members.

Through the eyes of Danny Patton, a Green Beret caught between this life and the next, Last Out takes you on a powerful journey through the warrior’s experience—from the battlefield to the homefront. Raw, emotional, and deeply human, this is not just a play—it’s a mission to heal, connect, and remember.

Hosted at the Sanders Beach-Corrine Jones Resource Center, this one-night event offers a rare opportunity to witness the cost of war through the voices of those who lived it.

🎟️ TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/the-last-out-elegy-of-a-green-beret

November 22 at 7:00 PM

Come honor the legacy of our nation’s defenders and be part of a story that bridges the gap between military and civilian life.



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11/17/2025

Join us for Friday forThe Heroes Journey 1-Day Storytelling Workshop — a guided experience for veterans, first responders, and Gold Star families to find meaning through story, connection, and belonging.
You’ll learn how to shape your personal story using the timeless arc of the Hero’s Journey — from the call to serve, through challenge and loss, to the return home with wisdom to share.

Date: Friday, November 21, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Location: Sanders Beach-Corrine Jones Resource Center 913 South I Street, Pensacola, FL

Register:

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11/16/2025

Your Reactions to Others Are Reflections of What’s Happening Inside You. The best part is that it’s Exactly How God Designed us, but we have been trying to solve it the wrong way.

Most of what we feel toward others is actually a reflection of something happening within our own heart. If it were only about them, it would land as information- a statement, something to notice, agree or disagree with, and then release.

But when there’s emotion attached, that feeling becomes a signal. It’s a nudge, a gentle tap from the Holy Spirit saying,

“There’s something in you that I want to heal.”

This is not a flaw.
It’s how God wired your heart so healing and restoration can happen from the inside out.

Here are a few ways that it can show up:

• Someone succeeds and you feel irritated.
Most of the time, this isn’t jealousy, it’s grief for the version of you that never felt supported or encouraged and now you stand in your own way of doing it.

God isn’t exposing this to shame you. He’s showing you the places still waiting to be restored within you.

• Someone leaves you out and it hurts.
That pain is an old message rising up, maybe something like “I’m not enough.”

But God calls you chosen, seen, and fully known. He allows the moment not to wound you, it’s to rewrite the story inside you.

• Someone expresses their emotions and you feel uncomfortable.
Their emotions touch the parts of you that were taught to hide, silence, or shrink.

God is inviting you to bring those hidden places into His light.

• Someone rests and a part of you feels resentful.
Maybe you grew up believing rest was unsafe, lazy, or unacceptable.

From the beginning, God modeled rest as holy, necessary, and good.

• Someone’s confidence feels like arrogance to you.
The discomfort often reveals a place where you doubt your own worth.

God isn’t condemning you, He’s trying to restore the identity He already placed inside you.

• Someone asks for help and you get annoyed.
That annoyance belongs to the part of you that learned survival meant carrying everything alone.

But God created us for interdependence, community, and support.

This is the beauty of God’s design:

Instead of asking,
“Why are they like that?” begin asking,
“Lord, what part of me are You bringing into the light right now?”

Your emotions become invitations.
Your reactions become revelations.
Your relationships become refining tools, the places where God grows, shapes, comforts, and transforms you.

This is not punishment.
This is the gentle restoration of the heart.

God uses interactions with others to heal the places in you that were never nurtured, never affirmed, never protected, or never loved the way He intended.

You don’t grow by fixing the world around you.
You grow by letting God tend to the world within you.

11/13/2025

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Attachment Barriers & Personality Adaptations in the Military

One research and experience working with the military population has made crystal clear is that many service members’ stories start long before they put on the uniform.

A significant number of SOF and high-performing military personnel grew up navigating Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), chaotic homes, emotional neglect, unpredictable caregivers, parentification, or chronic insecurity. These early experiences shape the nervous system in ways that look a lot like the traits we later praise in the military:
• hyper-responsibility
• vigilance
• emotional control
• independence
• the drive to protect
• the ability to perform under pressure

But these aren’t “symptoms.” They’re survival strategies learned in childhood that often make someone exceptional in uniform.

However, there is a flip side, especially after service.

When childhood attachment barriers combine with military conditioning, the patterns that once kept someone safe can become barriers to reintegration:
• difficulty with emotional closeness
• distrust
• isolation
• rigid self-control
• identity confusion without structure
• moral injury layered on top of older wounds

And what often gets labeled by society as a “personality disorder” is, more accurately, a personality adaptation, a way of moving through the world that was shaped by adversity and refined by military culture.

What my research is showing:
The military doesn’t “break” their members. It gives form, purpose, and structure to this protective adaptations they built long before service.

The challenge comes after leaving the military, when the identity that protected them can no longer carry the weight of unaddressed childhood pain, moral injury, or the loss of role and mission.

This matters for how we support veterans.
Shifting from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened in your story that shaped how you learned to survive?” changes everything about healing, reintegration, and identity reconstruction.

Veterans don’t need to abandon the parts of themselves that kept them alive. They need space to integrate them, to understand them, and finally give voice to the parts that never had room to grow in childhood or in service.

And for the spouses, partners, and those who love them and want to help…

If we belittle or criticize their behaviors, even unintentionally, their protector parts only work harder. Those protectors were formed in childhood, long before deployment, long before trauma, and they still believe they must keep everything under control to stay safe.

But when you approach their behavior with curiosity instead of judgment, something powerful happens: Those younger parts finally feel seen and heard. And when those parts feel safe, the protectors can step back. This is where closeness begins. This is where healing becomes possible, together

10/28/2025

What Makes a Good Therapist?

When you’re looking for a good therapist, it’s not about credentials, techniques, or letters after a name. It’s about their heart posture, how they show up, how they listen, and whether they reflect humility and truth.

Good therapists don’t settle for surface explanations or validation. They listen for what’s not being said, the pauses, the tension, the ache underneath the words. They hear the bodies screams for help. Proverbs 18:13 reminds us, “If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.” True curiosity is key, they seek understanding, not control.

They’re not afraid of what’s messy or unresolved. They understand that healing doesn’t happen on a timeline and that sometimes the most powerful thing they can do is to just simply be. Romans 12:12 says, “Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying.”
They trust the process, the client, and God who works in the unseen.

The best therapists are kind but still speak truth. They don’t flatter or rescue; they hold space for grace and accountability.
Ephesians 4:15 calls us to “speak the truth in love” that is what healing requires.

And lastly, They’ve sat with their own pain and allowed God to meet them there.
They’ve wrestled with their story and let it shape their compassion. Psalm 139:23-24 says, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends You, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.”
It’s that personal transformation that gives their presence depth and their counsel peace.

Because the best therapy isn’t about fixing people, it’s about walking beside them and seeing them for what might be the first time in their lives. It’s about teaching them to see themselves the way that you do, the way that Jesus does.

It’s about creating space where honesty, grace, and growth coexist. And when done well, it reflects the heart of Christ, meeting people right where they are and reminding them they’re not alone.