Find freedom from trauma’s grip on your present life.
Evidence-based treatment to reclaim peace and possibility.
What Prolonged Exposure Therapy Offers
Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) helps you process traumatic experiences that continue to impact your daily life. This specialized approach creates a path toward healing by gradually facing traumatic memories and situations in a safe, controlled environment.
Through this process, trauma begins to lose its overwhelming power as anxiety and fear responses diminish. As avoidance behaviors decrease, your sense of control and agency returns. Many clients experience improvements in daily functioning, sleep quality, and relationships as emotional availability increases.
PE creates lasting change by helping you engage with traumatic memories without being overwhelmed by them, allowing your brain to process these experiences differently and reduce their hold on your present life.
My Prolonged Exposure Approach
As a certified Prolonged Exposure therapist, I bring specialized training in this gold-standard trauma treatment. PE was developed specifically for post-traumatic stress and has extensive research supporting its effectiveness for various types of trauma.
The therapy helps you confront trauma memories and reminders that you’ve been avoiding. Through guided, gradual exposure to these avoided thoughts, feelings, and situations, you’ll learn that trauma-related memories and cues aren’t dangerous and don’t need to be avoided. This realization leads to significant reduction in traumatic stress symptoms.
My approach to PE emphasizes safety, control, and collaboration. We move at a pace that challenges you while respecting your readiness. Throughout the process, I provide support, guidance, and tools to manage distress effectively. Understanding “how we got here” creates context for your trauma responses while focusing on concrete steps toward healing.
The Prolonged Exposure Process
PE follows a structured approach that begins with education about trauma reactions and how recovery works. We develop personalized strategies for managing distress during the healing process. Together, we identify what you’ve been avoiding due to trauma and create a path toward gradually facing these challenges.
The therapy involves processing traumatic memories in a safe environment while gradually approaching situations you’ve been avoiding. This careful balance helps your brain update how it processes the traumatic experiences, reducing their emotional impact over time.
Throughout this process, we track your progress to ensure the therapy is working effectively for you. The approach is both systematic and flexible, adapting to your specific needs while maintaining the core elements that make PE effective.
PE for Different Trauma Experiences
Prolonged Exposure therapy helps with various trauma types, including single-incident traumas like accidents or assaults, as well as more complex trauma experiences. I adapt the approach to honor cultural differences in trauma responses and healing processes, with sensitivity to how trauma may be understood differently across cultural contexts.
Online PE Therapy in Minnesota & California
Virtual Prolonged Exposure sessions provide effective trauma treatment regardless of your location in Minnesota or California. In person sessions available in Woodbury, MN. Online therapy offers unique advantages for trauma work, including the comfort of remaining in your own space while processing difficult memories.
Through our work together, you’ll gain freedom from trauma’s control over your life, creating space for new possibilities and a renewed sense of safety in the world.
