Can I be helped?

There's a good chance you're here and reading this because you're desperately trying to find a way to stop the emotional distress that has, slowly but surely, started to control your entire life.

Perhaps it manifests for you as anxiety and panic, perhaps flashbacks where you re-live what happened over and over, perhaps as night terrors that make you too afraid to go back to sleep.

It can feel like living on a knife-edge 24/7 but never knowing when the bad thing is going to happen.

It can feel like there is no point in trying to be happy or think about the future because it always gets taken away when you try.

Perhaps, on a day to day basis, you can hide these feelings so well that no one understands that on the inside you feel like you're trapped in the bottom of a pit, all alone in the dark with monsters, with no chance of ever getting out.

Despite how you may feel right now, you can shake off the distress that has a grip on your life at the moment.​

You can be helped.

You may think that trauma isn't the issue that's distressing you. But trauma is not always about triggers, flashbacks and nightmares.

For some people, it can be anxiety, depression or anger that distresses them most. These states can often be parts of unrecognised trauma.​

Anxiety is future-based and can be the brain's way of trying to anticipate the next bad thing that might happen so you are alert and ready to protect yourself.​

Depression can be another way the brain tries to protect itself by withdrawing from the world and not allowing emotions to be felt so you can't be hurt again.

​Anger can be a self-protective strategy that's out of control because we feel so vulnerable and defenceless.

In fact, and this may seem strange, often anger, anxiety and depression start out as sensible self-protection strategies intended to protect the brain from further harm. However, they then go too far, to the point where they become destructive in their impact on our lives.

Anger, anxiety and depression can become overwhelming and take charge in our heads; they start to control every aspect of our lives and we can find no way to make them stop.

This is your moment to access therapy for trauma, anxiety, anger or depression to help relieve the emotional distress you're currently enduring.

You can be helped to find ways to live alongside what has happened to you without these feelings controlling your life as they do now.

It's about finding your balance again in a world that feels like an unsafe place for you to be in right now.

It's about reconnecting with emotions that you may feel have been destroyed by what happened to you.

Reconnecting to being happy, believing in yourself, feeling confident that you can look forward to a bright future where you achieve your dreams and hopes, where you are loved and valued for being exactly who you are.

People come to trauma therapy for all kinds of reasons; sometimes, what has happened to them has involved violence or abuse of some sort.

Perhaps you're an adult survivor of childhood abuse.

Perhaps trying to rebuild your life after a violent attack, sexual assault or rape.

Perhaps you fled a domestically abusive relationship and want to live without fear.​

Sometimes people come to trauma therapy for very different reasons, for reasons that others might think can't be traumatic.

Perhaps you've experienced or witnessed a traumatic birth, for example, or your baby has had a difficult start to life.

Perhaps you've lost babies before they even had a chance to live, or who died soon after birth.

Perhaps you're struggling because your baby or child has been significantly unwell with an illness that may affect them for the rest of their lives.

Perhaps you're struggling to cope with a situation that brought chaos to your life with no warning.

Perhaps your past has come back to haunt you in the present.

At Unchained Therapy, if what has happened to you feels traumatic, if you feel angry, anxious or depressed, you will be believed, helped and supported to get your life back into balance.

It only takes one email to start reclaiming your life.