Intergenerational trauma is the systemic experience of inherited trauma effects being passed down from generation to generation. Essentially, us as individuals may have inherited ancestral trauma experiences from previous generations. (I know - this honestly sucks).

BUT, naming these trauma experiences grants us more agency to actually transform and change the impacts that have been passed down to us.

Trauma-informed therapy highlights that all the information that we need to heal is within us. We just need to look closer, and willingly shift the perspectives that may have been holding us back for so long. We are also inclusive of the life experiences that are apart of your life today that may also have been impacted by generational trauma experiences.

Traditional talk therapy methods like CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) or DBT (dialectal behavioral therapy) may not be the most helpful for someone who has experienced generational trauma. It can be more helpful when it’s integrated with other therapy modalities like somatic therapy, IFS (Internal Family Systems), EFT (Emotion-Focused Therapy), or AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy).

Bottom line: you may need more of an integrative, multi-cultural, trauma-informed approach to better process your emotional experiences!

You could expect to meet with another human being who is dedicated to helping you further understand you. Therapy is a collaborative and mirrored space where we have the opportunity to explore self-concepts that have yet to be explored. The therapeutic process is never a one-size fits all. We’ll work together to figure out how we could best help you. That could be through skill building-tangible frameworks like DBT-CBT, etc., or even through more abstract concepts such as metaprocessing or somatic experiencing.

Where you are at in your healing journey, I will meet you in the middle!