Trauma
Trauma & PTSD Counselling in Surrey – Support at The Practice
Experiencing trauma can have lasting emotional, psychological, and physical effects. Trauma may arise from a single event, such as an accident or assault, or from ongoing experiences like abuse, neglect, or workplace stress. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can develop when the impact of trauma persists, affecting daily life, relationships, and emotional well-being.
At The Practice, our compassionate therapists in Weybridge, East Molesey, and online across Surrey provide specialised support for trauma and PTSD. We create a safe, confidential space where you can explore your experiences and begin to process your trauma at your own pace.
Signs You May Be Experiencing Trauma or PTSD
Common symptoms include:
- Recurrent distressing memories, flashbacks, or nightmares
- Emotional numbness, detachment, or withdrawal
- Difficulty sleeping or concentrating
- Hypervigilance, irritability, or heightened startle response
- Avoidance of places, people, or situations that trigger memories
- Feelings of guilt, shame, or low self-worth
How Counselling Can Help
Trauma-focused therapy with a trained counsellor can help you:
- Process traumatic memories safely
- Reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and hyperarousal
- Develop coping strategies for flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, and panic
- Rebuild a sense of safety, trust, and self-esteem
- Understand how trauma has affected relationships and daily life
Why Choose The Practice?
Our Surrey-based therapists offer:
- Face-to-face trauma counselling in Weybridge and East Molesey, or secure online sessions
- Evidence-based approaches, including trauma-focused CBT, integrative therapy, and phase-based treatment for PTSD
- Short-term or long-term therapy tailored to your individual needs
- Fully confidential and ethical practice under BACP and other professional guidelines
You don’t need to face the aftermath of trauma alone. Start your journey toward healing and emotional resilience today.
Contact The Practice on 0333 0096 321 fill in our online form or email us to book your trauma counselling session with a therapist who can help.
Useful Articles
Here is a list of articles on trauma you might find helpful.
TED Talk: Nadine Burke Harris: Childhood trauma and life long health
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Paediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for paediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.
Mental illness soars among young women in England – survey
NHS study finds 12.6% of women aged 16-24 screen positive for PTSD, 19.7% self-harm and 28.2% have mental health condition.
Mental illness mostly caused by life events not genetics, argue psychologists
Mental illness is largely caused by social crises such as unemployment or childhood abuse and too much money is spent researching genetic and biological factors, psychologists have warned.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a reaction to exposure to very stressful and traumatising events. People experience flashbacks, panic attacks and other acute symptoms. It can be treated, so it is important to get expert help.
TED Talk: Sebastian Junger: Our lonely society makes it hard to come home from war
Sebastian Junger has seen war up close, and he knows the impact that battlefield trauma has on soldiers. But he suggests there's another major cause of pain for veterans when they come home: the experience of leaving the tribal closeness of the military and returning to an alienating and bitterly divided modern society.
Recommended Reading
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why
In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illuminate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life's great challenges.
Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience
Drawing on cases across a range of life-threatening experiences, Laurence Gonzales makes a compelling argument about fear, courage and the adaptability of the human spirit.
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French 'Elle' and the father of two young children, suffered a massive stroke and found himself paralysed and speechless, but entirely conscious, trapped by what doctors call 'locked-in syndrome'. Using his only functioning muscle - his left eyelid - he began dictating this remarkable story, painstakingly spelling it out letter by letter. His book offers a haunting, harrowing look inside the cruel prison of locked-in syndrome, but it is also a triumph of the human spirit.
Poems and Quotes to Inspire You
Dare we hope? We dare.
Can we hope? We can.
Should we hope? We must, because to do otherwise is to waste the most precious of gifts given so freely by God to all of us. So when we do die, it will be with hope and it will be easy and our hearts will not be broken.
Andy Ripley – England and Lions rugby legend, often described as one of the most colourful personalities in the history of English rugby
Helpful articles often written by our fabulous practitioners.