Trauma counselling (also referred to as trauma debriefing) is essentially the healing process which assists you to deal with symptoms that you are stuck with after a traumatic event. The goal is essentially to resource you with the skills to cope with the traumatic event and to enable you to heal so as to restore yourself to a state of being in which you are able to feel thrive in life rather than simply surviving.

Trauma counselling allows you to validate your emotions, assess your current coping mechanisms (which may for example involve unhealthy habits such as substance abuse), help to make sense of what has happened in your life, move away from avoidance and suppressive behaviours, understand, recognise and  integrate the traumatic event into your life in a meaningful way and essentially unshackle you from the past and allow you to live in the present and for the future.

Due to its complexity and the fact that time is a contributor to healing, trauma counselling or therapy is suited to long term therapy, undertaken slowly and in a safe space.