You’ve heard “it’s in the past” or “you need to let it go.” But PTSD and trauma don’t work that way. Your nervous system is still in survival mode, protecting you from a threat that already happened.
Maybe it was childhood abuse. An assault. A car accident. Military combat. Chronic emotional neglect. Medical trauma. Betrayal that shattered your sense of safety. Grief that never got processed.
Trauma therapy helps your brain and body process overwhelming experiences that got stuck. When something traumatic happens, your nervous system goes into survival mode: fight, flight, or freeze.
That’s normal and protective.
Trauma therapy isn’t about reliving every detail or talking through the pain for years. It’s about helping your brain reprocess what happened so the memory becomes something that happened to you, not something that’s still happening to you.
We use evidence-based approaches like EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), somatic therapy, and nervous system regulation to help you heal. These methods have decades of research showing they work for PTSD, childhood trauma, complex trauma, and abuse recovery.
You don’t need to have a PTSD diagnosis for trauma therapy to help. If your past is interfering with your present, that’s enough.
Most therapists learned about trauma in one grad school class. We pursued advanced training because we’ve seen how effective trauma therapy can be when done by specialists. Every therapist on our team has EMDR training, trauma-focused certifications, and years of experience helping people heal from PTSD, childhood trauma, and complex trauma.
Every therapist has advanced EMDR training, not just basic certification. We’ve completed thousands of trauma therapy sessions since 2019, helping people heal from childhood abuse, PTSD, and complex trauma.
We specialize in treating PTSD, childhood trauma, complex trauma, abuse recovery, and traumatic grief. Trauma therapy isn’t something we ‘also do’ it’s our primary focus and expertise.
Your therapist has our entire trauma-focused team consulting behind the scenes. We meet regularly to discuss complex cases and bring different perspectives, so you get the benefit of multiple trauma specialists working for your healing.
Physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Neglect. Growing up with addiction, violence, or instability. The effects don’t just disappear. Childhood trauma therapy helps you heal wounds from the past that still affect your present.
We also treat medical trauma, religious trauma, racial trauma, and developmental trauma.
Your brain doesn’t categorize trauma by type. It responds to what overwhelmed you. Whether it was one event or a thousand small ones, if it’s still affecting you, trauma counseling can help.
If several of these feel familiar, PTSD treatment or trauma counseling can help. You don’t need all the answers or the perfect words. You just need to start.
Trauma isn’t always flashbacks and nightmares. Sometimes it’s quieter. It shows up in how you
react, who you trust, and what you avoid.
Trauma therapy isn’t about reliving every detail or talking through the pain for years. It’s about helping your brain and body finally process what happened so it stops feeling like it’s still happening.
“Your body remembers what your mind wants to forget. We help both finally let go.”
We help your brain reprocess traumatic memories using EMDR therapy. This allows memories to move from “threat right now” to “thing that happened in the past.”
Trauma gets stored in your nervous system. We use somatic therapy and polyvagal techniques to help you discharge that stuck energy and rebuild a sense of safety.
Trauma affects how you connect with others. We help you rebuild trust, set boundaries, and create healthy attachment patterns.
Single-incident trauma (like car accidents or assault) often responds within a few months. Complex trauma from childhood abuse or ongoing experiences takes longer. But you’ll see improvement from the start.
You control the pace. We go as slow or as fast as you need. Some sessions will feel hard. Some will bring relief. All of them move you forward.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is the gold
standard for PTSD treatment. Talk therapy helps you understand
trauma. EMDR helps your brain actually process it.
Every therapist at Lost & Found is EMDR-trained. We’ve completed
thousands of sessions for childhood trauma, complex PTSD, abuse
recovery, and acute trauma since 2019.
EMDR is endorsed by the WHO, American Psychiatric Association,
Department of Defense, and VA. Research shows it works faster than
traditional talk therapy for trauma resolution.
Trauma gets stored in your nervous system. Racing heart, tight chest, shallow breathing, frozen muscles. These aren’t just symptoms. They’re trauma responses stuck in your body.
We use somatic approaches, breathwork, grounding practices, Internal Family Systems (IFS), brainspotting, and ketamine therapy to help you release what talk therapy alone can’t reach.
IFS works with different parts of yourself. Brainspotting accesses trauma through body awareness. Ketamine opens neuroplasticity windows for deeper healing. Your body has been carrying the trauma. These approaches help it finally let go.
Sometimes you need more than an hour a week. You’re ready to do the work. You don’t want to spend ten minutes catching up and ten minutes wrapping up, leaving only thirty minutes to actually process. You want to go deep without waiting another week when you’re right in the middle of difficult work.
EMDR and ketamine intensives give you dedicated time to focus, we offer sessions from a few hours, full-day, or weekend formats. What might take months of weekly sessions can happen in days when you have uninterrupted space to process and heal.
We offer EMDR and ketamine intensives ranging from several hours to multi-day formats. Each intensive is customized based on what you’re working through and how much time you need.
Preparation session before your intensive to identify what we’ll work on and build safety. The intensive day(s) with breaks, grounding support, and snacks provided. Integration session after to process insights and plan next steps. You can continue with your regular therapist while doing an intensive with us.
100% EMDR-trained. 100% trauma-focused. We’ve completed thousands of
trauma therapy and PTSD treatment sessions since 2019.
25+ years experience in couples therapy, family systems, and faith integration
Licensed Professional Counselor
We build safety and trust before any processing begins. You’ll learn grounding techniques and nervous system regulation. We’ll map your trauma history and identify what needs healing. This foundation is
essential.
Using EMDR and body-based approaches, we help your brain reprocess stuck memories. Traumatic memories become normal memories, happened to you, not something still happening to you happened without reliving it. The emotional charge dissolves.
Symptoms reduce. You feel safer in your body and relationships. Triggers lose their power. You sleep better. You connect more easily. You reclaim parts of yourself that trauma took.
The timeline varies. Some people see significant shifts in weeks. Others need months. Progress isn’t linear. Some weeks feel harder than others. But every step forward counts.
15-minute consultation to find the right trauma specialist for your needs.
480-359-5001
info@LAFcounseling.com
3048 E Baseline Rd #123 Mesa, AZ 85204
Serving Gilbert, Chandler, Tempe & East Valley
Telehealth available across Arizona
