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Woven Together Trauma Therapy

We are a group of specialized therapists providing the very best (virtual) trauma care for California residents.

05/24/2023

If you’ve ever experienced a medical trauma, a traumatic experience related to the medical setting, you may have noticed some unexpected effects on your relationships. Maybe it’s more challenging than usual to interact with the people in your life and you’re wondering why. What might this look like in relationships? Here are some potential examples:

1. Changes for the future - This could mean drastic alterations in your physical health, ability status, mobility, fertility, sexual function, motor or sensory function, or mental status.

2. Hypervigilance - A medical trauma may cause a heightened awareness of potential dangers and threats in all areas of life, including new or existing relationships.

3. Attempts to control – As a result of an inability to change or control the circumstances surrounding the medical trauma, you may feel the need to control the people around you instead.

4. Anger – Lack of control and frustration about your circumstances can also lead to anger that gets directed toward loved ones unintentionally.

5. Misunderstanding from others – A medical trauma is easily misunderstood by others and can feel lonely and isolating.

6. Defensiveness - The feeling of vulnerability in the world after a medical trauma can make you perceive people’s interactions with you as more threatening than usual.

7. Internalized shame - Guilt and shame after a trauma can be very intense. Survivors may feel like a burden to others, withdraw, or detach from loved ones because of internalized shame.

8. Emotional numbness - A lack of emotions (or lack of outward expression) after trauma is one of many normal responses to an abnormal experience, and it can be easily misinterpreted by others.

9. Difficulty with intimacy - Intimacy may feel too vulnerable and threatening to your nervous system after spending time in “fight, flight, freeze, or fawn” mode, the four classic trauma responses.

10. Dependence on others - You may lose confidence in your ability to navigate the responsibilities and challenges of adulthood after a medical trauma.

05/18/2023

Did you know that eating disorders and childhood trauma are often connected? This certainly doesn’t mean that every person who has experienced trauma will develop an eating disorder, and it’s no guarantee that every person with disordered eating has experienced trauma. What we have is data that indicates a link between trauma and eating disorders for a portion of people which means that these are risk factors to be aware of.

Every person processes and responds in different ways to life experiences, so if you’re curious about how you are reacting to something you have been through, consider talking to a professional who can help support you.

05/11/2023

Medical trauma is a subcategory of trauma that is sometimes overlooked. Why? Maybe because we all assume that medical events and medical care are normal and expected parts of life. But studies show medical trauma, like other forms, can be linked to symptoms of significant psychological distress including anxiety, depression, and PTSD.

05/03/2023

I feel incredibly honored to work in counseling. I know that for some people it is not an easy feat to be vulnerable and lean into the hard work of healing alongside someone new to their lives. I hope those I work with get to experience safety and freedom to be themselves with the knowledge that, at least here, no one will judge or give up on them.

04/28/2023

Interested in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)? These are our therapists who work with KAP clients!

✨Gabriela Ucrós, Amft
✨Moriah Conant, MA

04/26/2023

There are more options than ever for ketamine treatment. The experience of ketamine is fundamentally changed in the presence of a trained psychotherapist that can help guide your experience. We pay extra attention to helping you feel mindfully grounded, emotionally safe, and psychologically prepared for the experience of a psychedelic intervention.

04/21/2023

In recent years, ketamine and other psychedelic therapies have shown incredible results with treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) combines the helpful medicine of ketamine with the emotional support of a therapist to help you take your healing to the next level.

04/19/2023

That’s where you’ll hopefully want something similar to your partner: growth: where you’re your own person and your partner brings depth to your journey through life by adding something different. You’ll probably want a thousand other things, too, but one of them won’t be a carbon copy of your needs sleeping in your bed every night for the rest of your life. It’ll likely be someone who tells you when you got something wrong, revels in feeling seen as you learn about them over time (with no agenda to “fix” them), finds you in the moments you feel tired, gross, and unworthy, and tells you they love you and are so happy you let them see the ever-changing, unique, evolving human being you are.

04/17/2023

If you’re still wondering if you fawn a lot in relationships, here are a couple of clues*:
✨You feel like “the caregiver”
✨You have trouble saying no
✨You get really anxious when you don’t think you can help someone
✨Your values change depending on the person you’re talking to (and you’ve called that an asset)
✨You often feel blank, erratic, or guilty anger
✨You don’t think anyone truly cares about or knows the real you
✨You feel responsible for other people's reactions

04/10/2023

We know that trauma is stored in our bodies. We also know that when we experience a traumatic event and it goes unprocessed, our brains will tell us that we are currently experiencing another trauma when we are triggered. That means you might be completely safe at the moment, but your brain thinks you’re experiencing trauma and will go into survival mode in order to try to keep you safe. When it comes to religious trauma, EMDR can offer meaningful relief after years of triggers, overwhelm, and a dysregulated nervous system.

04/07/2023

As you got older, you got great at tuning into other people's frequencies.** And now? You’re an expert in relationships, the best partner anybody’s ever seen, and an even better child and friend. Every boss you’ve ever had asks you to do less, because you go goblinmode on a project. You do it all and still make time to be your partner’s best friend, confidant, ombudsman, cheerleader, and nurturer (or parent…if we’re being honest, sometimes, parent).*

…The Problem?

04/05/2023

READY TO UNDERSTAND YOUR TRIGGERS IN A WHOLE NEW WAY?

Do You Feel Stuck In A Fight, Flight, Freeze Or Fawn Response?
Our Four Trauma Responses Mini-Course helps you understand our trauma responses: fight, flight, freeze or fawn.

✨WHAT’S INCLUDED IN FOUR TRAUMA RESPONSES✨

Deep Dive Into Each Response
Whether you are a fight, flight, freeze or fawn responder, I'll help you identify your trauma response style and identify how it might be impacting your overall mental health and relationships.

Deep Dive Into Coping Skills
You'll get an in-depth lesson on managing your fight, flight, freeze and fawn responses in this lecture. Then you'll have skills you can use immediately to help you start feeling in control of your days.

04/03/2023

Most people try to please others at some point. It’s a pretty human thing to do. But they’re usually doing it from a place of being in touch with their own needs, emotions, and sense of self-worth that transcends whatever they can do for another person.*
So what happens when someone isn’t?
What happens when someone’s been people-pleasing since they were a kid, because they felt so rejected for who they were that they put everything they had into pleasing others with what they did instead? And what if that put them more in touch with other people’s needs and emotions than their own?*
What if you were that kid?

03/29/2023

It can feel disorienting and defeating to try to figure out what we actually want, and worse to realize we never knew in the first place. But that line of thinking can take us deep into self-blame territory. Instead of taking that detour all the way into self-loathing, think about the times you’ve been fully immersed in other peoples’ needs. What was the most recent time you tried to figure out what your partner wanted? What were you thinking about when it happened? What were you trying to protect by pleasing them? Do you have other memories of feeling the same way? Try to find a pattern in the behavior and see if you can have some self-compassion for the fear that was likely behind it. Exploring the reason behind fawning will help you figure out two things: what you’re afraid of losing in intimate relationships by being yourself, and what you want but might not believe you deserve.

03/22/2023

Our goal in getting things done after trauma is to keep coming back to a place of as little distress as possible, think about real deadlines instead of “ideal” ones, and feel as much accomplishment as possible from what we get done. Go into our last video on productivity after trauma with the mindset that centering what’s realistic and makes you feel safe will help you move forward and heal at the same time.

03/15/2023

When you’re feeling really down, disconnected, or anxious, and you just keep trying to force yourself to “sit down and do some work,” you’re probably experiencing PTSD symptoms that need to be managed! Think of it as your body and mind’s way of telling you that something’s off. Helping yourself feel more neutral and present is the way to not only do more of what you need to do again, but help yourself cultivate that feeling throughout your day. And that’s the goal: feeling less threatened, more safe, and more capable. You owe that much to yourself in your healing journey.

03/08/2023

Between all of the different ways PTSD symptoms can leave you feeling stuck, it’s easy to think you’re simply “not trying hard enough.” But you are; you’re just trying hard to survive. Redefining your definition of “productivity” to focus on accomplishment while managing your symptoms at the same time is a step toward healing, peace, and function over impossibly perfect form.

03/01/2023

“I like to hold space for the parts of ourselves that feel shameful or unwanted. I don’t think humans can be broken, and love to nurture self-compassion with a combo of deeper awareness of how trauma can impact us and how resilient we can be. Healing inspires me, and I’m so lucky that I get to witness it every day!”

Ocean is certified in EMDR, and specializes in:

✨Complex PTSD
✨Sexual Trauma
✨Intimate Partner Violence
✨Stalking
✨Sexual Exploitation
✨Two Spirit & LGBTQIA+ and alternative relationship formation issues

Address

1452 26th Street, Ste 106
Santa Monica, CA
90404

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 7pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+13104015072

Website

https://woventraumatherapy.com/

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