trauma therapy for bipoc in portland, oregon

CHILDHOOD TRAUMA

YOU MAY BE WONDERING IF WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU IS REALLY TRAUMA, EXACTLY.

SURE, YOU’VE BEEN THROUGH SOME STUFF, BUT LIFE IS HARD FOR EVERYONE, RIGHT?

There’s always someone with a story that sounds way worse than yours. Still, your mind keeps drifting back to the same painful memories over and over. No matter how many times you tell yourself to shake it off, that it’s stupid to dwell on these things, you just can’t seem to put them out of your mind permanently. Sometimes, sitting around with a group of friends, you crack a joke about something you went through, trying to put a funny spin on it, and…nobody laughs. Maybe they have a point about this trauma stuff after all.

It’s scary to think about unpacking your childhood in therapy, having somebody else look at all of it.

After all, this is the stuff that made you as strong as you are now, right?

And you may worry about a therapist judging your caregivers – you know they went through plenty of trauma in their own childhoods, too. But even though you feel protective of them, there’s some stuff that just doesn’t sit right – stuff that you’re more and more aware is still affecting you, and your relationships, even decades later.

Whether you call it trauma or not,

YOU DESERVE TO HAVE SPACE FOR YOUR EXPERIENCES TO BE HEARD.

At Aurora Counseling, our therapists understand the complex factors that contribute to intergenerational and family system trauma, and will hold space for you to feel all the conflicting feelings and think all the conflicting thoughts you may have about your childhood.

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