Trauma therapy at Modern Insight Therapy provides a safe, supportive space to process painful experiences without pressure or judgment. It involves working with a trauma-informed therapist to explore how trauma may be impacting your thoughts, emotions, body, and relationships. This might include identifying triggers, building emotional regulation tools, and creating a sense of safety in the present.

Rather than forcing you to relive the trauma, our approach focuses on helping you reconnect with your body, regain your sense of agency, and heal at your own pace—with support every step of the way.

There are several effective, evidence-based approaches to trauma therapy. At Modern Insight Therapy, we use trauma-informed methods tailored to your needs. Some commonly used therapies include:

• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) – helps reprocess traumatic memories in a safe, structured way

• Somatic therapy – focuses on how trauma lives in the body

• Internal Family Systems (IFS) – supports healing through understanding internal emotional parts

• Trauma-informed CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) – helps reshape unhelpful thought patterns related to the trauma

Your therapist will collaborate with you to find the approach that best supports your healing journey.

Trauma often lives not just in the mind, but in the body. Releasing it involves gently reconnecting with physical sensations, processing stored emotions, and learning to feel safe in your body again. At Modern Insight Therapy, we may integrate body-based techniques such as grounding, breathwork, mindfulness, or somatic experiencing—always with your consent and comfort in mind.

Therapy creates a space where you can safely notice, name, and begin to release what your body has been holding onto—one step at a time.

The 5 R’s of trauma-informed care are guiding principles that help ensure clients feel safe, respected, and empowered throughout the healing process. At Modern Insight Therapy, our trauma therapists follow these principles closely:

1. Realize the widespread impact of trauma

2. Recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma in clients

3. Respond with fully integrated trauma-informed practices

4. Resist re-traumatization by avoiding triggers or harmful practices

5. Respect the client’s voice, choice, and control in the therapeutic process

These principles are at the heart of everything we do—because healing from trauma requires not just tools, but trust.