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I believe that our close collaboration is the key to helping you adjust to difficult experiences and achieve a greater sense of ba...
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I believe that our close collaboration is the key to helping you adjust to difficult experiences and achieve a greater sense of balance and happiness in your life.
Tricia Seely is a dual board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She has experience in behavioral health, primary care, neurology, and pain management. Her experience includes working with clients with a range of chronic medical illnesses and adjustment disorders. She has a special interest in a range of concerns including anxiety, depression, chronic illness, relationship issues, behavioral problems, mood disorders, women's mental health, adjustment disorders, and veteran's issues.
Tricia has a Post-Master’s Certificate in Psychiatric Mental Health from UMASS Chan Medical School Graduate School of Nursing. Tricia is committed to a holistic approach that considers the impact of body, mind, and spirit on healing. She helps clients build a safe place where they can create coping strategies to cultivate a better life.
Tricia believes clients deserve the best mental healthcare without stigma or barriers, no matter what stage of their recovery they are at. Her primary goal is to help clients build skills that will allow them to live their best life. You can do this! Call today and let her help you get your life back.
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My go-to approach for helping individuals in PTSD/trauma therapy is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and motivational interviewing. These allow me to understand where the individual is in their journey, whether they talk around the trauma, or if they are able to articulate what their goals are for treatment.
Some of the tools I teach in PTSD/trauma therapy include mindfulness, grounding, and breathing techniques. I will teach the individual self-affirming statements if appropriate and may utilize roleplay or the empty chair technique if needed.
I know a client is making progress in PTSD/trauma therapy when they are reporting fewer symptoms associated with PTSD/trauma, by observing their body language, and possibly how they talk about the trauma.
Clients can supplement their PTSD/trauma counseling during their personal time by practicing the skills they learned during the sessions, reading self-help books or listening to podcasts, and processing them during the sessions, if needed.
To prepare for their first PTSD/trauma therapy session, an individual can remind themself they are in a safe place. They can be prepared to talk about as much or as little as they are comfortable with during that first session.
At Thriveworks, Trauma/PTSD therapy involves dedicated efforts to address and navigate through past and/or recent traumatic events. Therapists specializing in trauma create a secure environment to process and heal from these experiences, aiming to reduce trauma-related symptoms and enhance overall quality of life.
Our Thriveworks providers use Trauma/PTSD therapy treatments like eye movement desensitization and reprocessing EMDR, CBT, and exposure therapy with the goal of helping clients process the traumatic events they have experienced so that they can to start feeling safe and secure again.
The symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can vary but often include:
The best way to overcome PTSD triggers is to seek the assistance of a professional therapist, such as those at Thriveworks, who can help you to understand and treat your PTSD triggers.
In most cases, a therapist who specializes in Trauma/PTSD therapy is the best type of mental health professional to address the symptoms of PTSD.
PTSD/trauma therapy at Thriveworks is conducted both in person and online by video. We encourage you to choose the option that works best for you.
If a client is working through a single traumatic event that occurred as an adult, trauma or PTSD therapy may only take a few months, but in general, it can take a year or more to effectively treat trauma symptoms and PTSD. The duration of treatment is highly dependent on the client and the severity of their symptoms.
The success rate of therapy for PTSD depends entirely on the individual’s symptoms, commitment to attending sessions, and personal abilities.
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Thriveworks Counseling & Psychiatry Portland is located in the Sanborn Building near the intersection of Forest Avenue and Ashmont St, off Interstate 295. It is near Longfellow Park and just west of Back Cove. The office is in a multi-story brick commercial building. Enter through the doors to access Suite 201 on the second floor.
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