Whole-Body Support for Trauma, PTSD, and Stress-Related Symptoms
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Trauma can affect much more than your emotional wellbeing. After a traumatic experience, your nervous system may remain on high alert, affecting your sleep, energy, concentration, digestion, relationships, mood, and ability to feel safe and grounded.
Whether you are dealing with recent trauma, long-term effects from past experiences, or symptoms of PTSD or complex PTSD, you don’t have to navigate the aftermath alone.
At Wild Horse Health, we take a whole-person approach to trauma-related symptoms. We look at the connection between your nervous system, physical health, emotional wellbeing, lifestyle, and overall resilience to create an individualized plan of care.
Trauma affects everyone differently. Some people experience intrusive memories, nightmares, or flashbacks. Others may primarily notice anxiety, irritability, emotional numbness, fatigue, sleep problems, digestive symptoms, or difficulty concentrating.
Sometimes the effects of trauma can continue long after the original event has ended. The body and nervous system may continue responding as though a threat is present, even when you are physically safe.
Our integrative care team looks at the full picture—your emotional and mental wellbeing alongside your physical health and lifestyle.
We consider factors such as chronic stress, sleep disruption, nutritional status, hormonal and metabolic health, inflammation, digestion, and nervous system regulation that may influence how you feel and function.
Trauma recovery is not simply about “getting over” what happened. Traumatic experiences can affect the way the nervous system responds to stress, and these responses can continue even after the immediate danger has passed.
Our approach focuses on supporting the whole person.
We look at physical and lifestyle factors that may influence your ability to regulate stress and recover from prolonged periods of nervous system activation.
Our integrative care can complement trauma-focused psychotherapy, psychiatric care, and other conventional treatments when appropriate.
You’ll start with a 90-minute trauma-informed intake that covers your psychological and physical health history. We’ll take time to understand your symptoms, health history, lifestyle, medications or supplements, current stressors, and your goals for care.
We understand that discussing trauma can be difficult. You are never required to share details you are not comfortable discussing. Our goal is to create a supportive environment where you can move at a pace that feels appropriate for you.
We’ll also perform a physical exam and may recommend relevant laboratory testing to better understand the full picture.
Your personalized treatment plan may address sleep, nutrition, stress resilience, nervous system regulation, physical health, and other factors that may support your overall wellbeing.
We’re happy to collaborate with your existing therapist, psychiatrist, or other mental health provider to help ensure cohesive care.
Trauma can affect the mind and body simultaneously. We believe effective trauma recovery may benefit from addressing both.
Our integrative approach can complement trauma-focused psychotherapy and psychiatric care by exploring physical and lifestyle factors that may influence your nervous system and overall resilience.
We can help you explore areas such as:
We support patients who:
PTSD can develop after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event and may involve symptoms such as intrusive memories, avoidance, hypervigilance, and changes in mood or thinking.
C-PTSD is recognized in the ICD-11 and is associated with prolonged or repeated traumatic experiences. In addition to core PTSD symptoms, C-PTSD can involve persistent difficulties with emotional regulation, self-concept, and relationships.
Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) involves trauma-related symptoms that occur shortly after exposure to a traumatic event. Symptoms can include intrusive memories, avoidance, changes in mood or cognition, dissociation, and heightened arousal.
ASD and PTSD are distinguished in part by the timing and duration of symptoms.
Yes. Trauma and chronic stress can affect the nervous system and may be associated with physical symptoms such as sleep disruption, muscle tension, digestive symptoms, fatigue, headaches, changes in appetite, and increased autonomic arousal.
Because many physical symptoms can have multiple causes, we evaluate them as part of a broader health assessment rather than automatically attributing them to trauma.
No. You are not required to provide details about traumatic experiences that you do not feel comfortable sharing.
Our approach is patient-centered and trauma-informed. We focus on understanding your current symptoms and health while respecting your boundaries.
Our integrative services are intended to complement appropriate mental health treatment. If trauma-focused psychotherapy is indicated, we can work alongside your existing therapist or help facilitate appropriate mental health care.
Yes. Integrative care can be used alongside conventional mental health treatment. With your permission, we can collaborate with members of your healthcare team to help coordinate care.
We do not recommend stopping psychotherapy or prescribed psychiatric medication without guidance from your treating provider.
Trauma can be associated with difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, nightmares, nighttime hypervigilance, and difficulty feeling safe enough to fully relax.
We can evaluate sleep as part of your overall health picture and develop supportive strategies based on your individual needs.
Severe trauma-related symptoms may require specialized mental health treatment. If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, feel that you may hurt yourself or someone else, are experiencing a mental health emergency, or feel unsafe, seek immediate emergency care.
Integrative care should never delay urgent psychiatric or medical treatment.
Wild Horse Health is a cash-pay clinic. We do not bill insurance directly, but:
Trauma can change the way you experience your body, your emotions, and the world around you. With compassionate support and a whole-person approach, you can begin to better understand those responses and build greater resilience.
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