Trauma Therapy in New York
Attachment-Based Individual Trauma Therapy at Our Kind Therapy
Trauma is not defined only by traumatic events themselves. It is also characterised by how your body is affected by traumatic experiences.
For some people, trauma can come from specific incidents such as an accident, abuse, medical emergency, or sudden loss. However, for many others, trauma develops slowly through repeated exposure to fear, instability, neglect, or emotional harm over time in response to an event, or how you’re treated based on an ‘event’. Trauma can also be intergenerational, carried through family systems shaped by survival and silence.
What these experiences share is disruption to safety. When an experience overwhelms the body’s capacity to cope, the nervous system adapts by staying alert, guarded, or shut down. Long after the threat has passed, the body may continue responding as if danger is still present.
At Our Kind Therapy, we offer trauma therapy in New York focused on restoring safety, reducing fear, and helping the nervous system return to the present.
Different Forms of Trauma
Trauma therapy must be individualized.
In our work, we often see:
Single-event trauma
Chronic or relational trauma
Developmental trauma
Intergenerational trauma
Each affects the nervous system differently. Understanding the type of trauma helps determine pacing and approach.
How Trauma Often Shows Up
Trauma may appear as:
Persistent anxiety or hypervigilance
Emotional numbing or detachment
Physical symptoms that may not have an immediately clear medical explanation
These responses are not weaknesses. They are adaptations.
We Treat the System, Not Just the Symptom
Even when danger is no longer present, the nervous system may continue to operate as if it were.
Trauma therapy focuses on helping the body gradually and safely learn that the present moment is different from the past. Safety comes first. Processing follows.
How Trauma Begins to Shift
Trauma begins to shift as fear softens.
As safety is consistently experienced, the body begins to distinguish between then and now. Sensations become more tolerable. Emotional responses feel less overwhelming.
This work is never rushed.
How We Work With Trauma at Our Kind Therapy
Our trauma work is relational and body-based. Therapy may draw from:
AEDP and ISTDP to process emotion while maintaining safety
EMDR to reprocess traumatic memory without re-living
Somatic Experiencing to restore regulation
What Trauma Therapy Often Looks Like
Sessions may include:
Tracking bodily sensation
Establishing safety before memory work
Reducing fear responses
Supporting emotional completion
The body leads.
Coping Tools and Between-Session Support
We offer grounding tools to support safety between sessions while deeper work unfolds. Tools support containment. Safety enables healing.
When Safety Returns
Trauma does not mean you are broken. It means your system adapted to survive.
If you are seeking trauma therapy in New York and want work that honors your pace and your body, Our Kind Therapy offers a space where safety can be restored.
