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Understanding Childhood Trauma
Childhood shapes the foundation of who we become – how we trust, love, and understand ourselves.
When those early experiences involve fear, neglect, or emotional absence, their impact can last long into adult life.
Childhood trauma does not always come from a single event.
Sometimes it’s the slow accumulation of moments where a child felt unseen, unheard, or unsafe.
For others, it involves more visible experiences of loss, instability, or harm.
Every person’s story is unique – and each carries its own emotional truth.
Therapy offers a safe and confidential space to explore how those early experiences continue to shape your present, and to begin working through what remains unhealed.
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What lies beneath childhood trauma?
The effects of childhood trauma are often subtle and enduring.
They can appear as anxiety, shame, emotional numbness, perfectionism, or difficulties with trust and closeness.
These symptoms are not signs of weakness – they are ways the psyche learned to survive and protect itself.
Over time, the same defences that once helped can become restrictive, keeping pain at a distance but also limiting connection and joy.
Therapy helps uncover the emotional meaning of these patterns and begins the process of working through what the mind and body have held for so long.
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How does therapy help for childhood trauma?
Therapy provides a consistent and safe relationship where past experiences can be spoken, understood, and felt – often for the first time.
By bringing what was once unspeakable into words, the past begins to loosen its grip on the present.
This is not about forgetting or erasing trauma, but about finding new ways of living alongside it with compassion and strength.
Through understanding and working through, old patterns can soften, allowing space for new forms of trust, confidence, and self-understanding to emerge.
Our psychotherapists work with care and depth, helping you to make sense of what was endured and to reclaim the capacity to live more freely in the present.
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