Evidence-based trauma therapy including EMDR/IEMT and trauma-focused CBT.
About This Service
Something happened — and your mind and body have not been able to leave it behind. That is not weakness. That is trauma.
Trauma is what happens when an experience overwhelms the nervous system’s capacity to process it. The memory does not get stored and filed away, like the way ordinary memories do. Instead, it stays live, flooding back through flashbacks, nightmares, bodily sensations, and a nervous system that remains on high alert long after the danger has passed.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and complex trauma are still widely misunderstood in India. Many women have been told to “forget it,” “move on,” or “be grateful it wasn’t worse.” Trauma does not respond to willpower or gratitude. Trauma responds to safe, skilled, and carefully paced therapeutic work and to being genuinely witnessed by someone who understands what happened to you.
This therapy is for women recovering from any form of trauma – it can be a single acute event, sustained abuse, childhood experiences, sexual violence, medical trauma, loss, or the accumulation of smaller experiences that were never acknowledged as harmful. You do not need to have a formal PTSD diagnosis to deserve trauma support.
Symptoms and Concerns We Address
What trauma can look and feel like
FLASHBACKS AND INTRUSIONS
Vivid, unwanted memories of the traumatic event breaking through without warning – getting triggered by sounds, smells, places, or nothing at all
NIGHTMARES AND SLEEP DISRUPTION
Repeated distressing dreams, waking in fear, or being afraid to sleep because of what awaits you there
HYPERVIGILANCE
Being constantly on alert for danger, getting startled easily, struggling to feel safe even in objectively safe environments
EMOTIONAL NUMBING
Feeling cut off from emotions, relationships, or experiences that once mattered, and it feels like you’re going through life behind a pane of glass – seeing everything but not feeling much
AVOIDANCE
Staying away from people, places, conversations, or thoughts that might trigger memories of the trauma
SHAME AND SELF-BLAME
Believing that the trauma was your fault, that you should have done something differently, or that it says something damning about you
RELATIONSHIP DIFFICULTIES
Difficulty trusting others, feeling disconnected from loved ones, or finding closeness frightening rather than comforting
PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS
Tension, pain, nausea, or other somatic responses that flare without an obvious medical cause, it feels like the body is holding what the mind cannot yet process
Our Therapeutic Approach
Paced, evidence-based, and always led by your safety
- Safety and stabilisation first
No trauma processing happens before we have established stability. We begin by building grounding skills, emotional regulation tools, and a therapeutic relationship in which you genuinely feel safe. - Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
An evidence-based approach that helps you process traumatic memories and challenge the distorted beliefs trauma produces. Thoughts and beliefs such as “it was my fault,” “I am permanently damaged,” “nowhere is safe” are challenged at a pace that is always within your window of tolerance. - EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) or IEMT (Integrated Eye Movement Therapy)
These are one of the most effective treatments for PTSD available. They help the brain reprocess traumatic memories so they lose their power to intrude and overwhelm, without requiring you to talk through the event in detail. - Somatic awareness work
Trauma is held in the body as well as the mind. We work gently with the physical dimension of trauma – the tension in the body, the freeze experience, the chronic activation of certain body parts/pain – by using body-informed approaches to help your nervous system find rest. - Processing shame and self-blame
Trauma almost always produces shame that belongs to the perpetrator or the situation, not to you. Carefully working through and redistributing this shame is one of the most healing parts of trauma recovery. - Post-traumatic growth and integration
Recovery from trauma is not only about symptom reduction. We work toward integrating the experience into your life story in a way that does not define or diminish you. We help you build the life you want, where you live beyond it.
Trauma recovery is not linear and cannot be rushed. The pace of this work is always determined by what your nervous system can safely hold and never by a fixed schedule or external pressure from us.
What to Expect
Entering trauma therapy for the first time
- You will not be asked to relive the trauma in the first session
The first session is about your current life, your current symptoms, and beginning to build the safety and trust that trauma work requires. We move toward the material only when it is genuinely safe to do so. - You are always in control of what we explore and when
Nothing in trauma therapy is done to you. You set the pace. You can slow down, stop, or redirect at any point – and doing so is respected completely. - Symptoms may temporarily increase before they reduce
Beginning trauma work can initially stir things up and this is normal and expected. We manage this carefully, and we will prepare you for it honestly before we begin deeper work. - Meaningful relief is possible, and common
PTSD responds well to evidence-based treatment. Most women experience significant reduction in symptoms, improved daily functioning, and a restored sense of safety within the course of therapy. - Online
Online sessions are fully appropriate for trauma work and are preferred by many women, particularly those for whom physical travel adds stress, or who need the safety of their own environment to do this work.
