Trauma Therapy

Trauma-Focused Therapy for Survivors of
Child abuse and sexual assault

What is Trauma-Focused Therapy?

Trauma-focused therapy uses a range of evidence-based treatments for children, teens, and adults who have experienced a trauma. During therapy, the client learns about trauma, relaxation skills, emotion management, and thought patterns. Each client then has the opportunity to tell the story fo their trauma and process it in a way that is meaningful to them. Trauma-focused therapy empowers clients to thrive after a trauma has occurred.

Benefits of therapeutic care after trauma

  • Processing the various feelings and thoughts that can occur after trauma

  • Improved healthy coping skills

  • Reducing the signs and symptoms of trauma

  • Develop a better understanding of trauma and how to help yourself and others

  • Broaden your support system

  • Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for youth and their caregivers following child maltreatment.

  • Trauma-Focused therapy for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse or sexual assault.

  • Group Therapy: caregiver support group, child survivors support group, adult survivors support group.

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for both child and adult survivors of trauma.

  • We other other therapeutic services on a case by case basis, please call (706) 245- 8700 or email us to learn more.

Therapeutic Services

Types of Therapy Offered at Harmony House

Trauma-Focused
Cognitive Behavioral
therapy (TF-CBT)

TF-CBT is a brief, caregiver-involved psychotherapy (typically 12–20 sessions) that integrates cognitive, behavioral, family, and humanistic principles.

The model helps children and adolescents:
1) learn effective skills to cope with trauma-related emotional and behavioral challenges, 2) resolve these problems safely, and
3) integrate their experiences to move forward in a positive manner.

EMDR is a structured, trauma-informed psychotherapy designed to help individuals heal from trauma and PTSD.

By utilizing bilateral stimulation—such as guided eye movements—EMDR replicates the brain's natural problem-solving mechanisms associated with REM sleep.

When clients focus on specific traumatic memories, emotions, and physical sensations while receiving this stimulation, the brain can process and resolve targeted experiences more systematically than it typically does during normal sleep.

Eye Movement Desensitization
and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Therapy at Harmony house is free for all clients.

  • Yes, therapy is HIPAA compliant and confidential.

  • Trauma therapy is short-term. Most clients are in therapy for about 6-9 months.

  • We offer tele-therapy. As long as you have a device and internet connection, we can work with you!