Comprehensive Trauma Treatment in Los Angeles
Traumatic experiences can take many forms, such as a sudden traumatic event, repeated and prolonged traumatic events, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Some examples of traumatic experiences include violence, physical or sexual assault, unexpected loss, active duty, natural disasters, or abuse. Exposure to traumatic experience increases your risk for developing a mental health condition known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
PTSD is a painful mental health condition that can impact your health and well-being in significant ways. Conditions like PTSD can rob you of your ability to function across multiple areas of your life. The effects of trauma impede managing daily living tasks, eating and sleeping patterns, and your performance at work or school.
When struggling with PTSD, your life may seem controlled by triggering flashbacks of the traumatic event(s). Further, the effects of trauma can lead you to withdraw from loved ones or activities you used to enjoy. PTSD tries to rob you of yourself, your loved ones, your well-being, and joy in your daily life. At its root, PTSD involves a pervasive fear of people, places, and things that remind you of your trauma. These fears can be so intense that you begin shaping your daily life around ways to avoid exposure to anything that may cause your symptoms to worsen.
Fortunately, there are more treatment options to address trauma and PTSD than ever before. At Profound Treatment, our expert trauma therapists and trauma-informed trained staff have the resources to help you develop coping skills to manage your trauma-related stress. We are here to create a personalized trauma treatment experience that reflects your unique strengths and presenting symptoms. By addressing your experienced trauma and unique needs, you can begin the healing process. You can live a fulfilling life no longer marked by the fears and triggers that accompany PTSD in our trauma treatment in Los Angeles.
Personalized Care in a Supportive Environment
We are dedicated to providing a client-centered, holistic approach to care that offers a personalized treatment plan that meets you where you are. Everyone’s experienced trauma is different, and the challenges that come with that are unique as well. Some people have traumatic experiences and recover without developing post-traumatic stress disorder. However, others may develop PTSD, substance use disorder (SUD), and other mental health conditions.
Our clinicians provide health care services that respect the circumstances of your life, needs, values, and preferences. Some of the invaluable aspects of personalized care treatment plans include:
- A collaborative process for shared decision-making
- Supports you being an active participant in your treatment and recovery
- Provides whole-person therapeutic approaches
- You are more than your diagnosis
- Acknowledges and addresses the impact of the health, social, emotional, mental, and practical aspects of your daily life
- You are more than your diagnosis
- Supports the development of realistic and actionable goal setting
- You work with clinicians to build goals that not only support your recovery, but also match your life and needs for long-term well-being
- Fosters empowerment in treatment planning, your treatment program, and life
- Your right to independence is respected in your capacity to make choices and have control over your care
- Access to community and social support through loved ones, peers, clinicians, and other support people
- In treatment and post-treatment, you have access to local community programs and health care services
- Support your well-being across your physical, social, and mental health
- In treatment and post-treatment, you have access to local community programs and health care services
A personalized care treatment program offers many benefits, including better health outcomes, higher-quality care, engagement, and treatment management.
Who We Help
We are here to help anyone experiencing challenges with substance abuse and/or mental health conditions. Whether you need dual diagnosis for co-occurring conditions or trauma-informed care, there is a treatment program for you. We also specialize in offering treatment plans that support the unique needs of underserved communities and groups with a heightened risk for traumatic events, mental health challenges, and substance use.
Listed below are some of the affirming and culturally competent care services we offer:
- Specialized treatment programs for members of the LGBTQ+ community
- Gender-affirming transgender residential treatment program
- Evidence-based treatment plans for professionals
- First responders
- Police officers
- Firefighters
- Paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMTs)
- Healthcare professionals
- Doctors
- Nursers
- Working in an ER or other medical setting
- Mental health care professionals
- Psychiatrists
- Therapists, including trauma therapists
- Other industry professionals
- Accountants
- Investment managers
- Lawyers
- CEOs
- IT technicians
- Software developers
- Publishers
- Real estate agents
- Pilots
- Professional athletes
- First responders
- Vocational and life skills training
- Dual diagnosis for substance abuse and mental health treatment
With responsive personalized care at our treatment center, you or your loved one can find in-person residential treatment plans that are designed around you.
Expert Care in a Healing Environment
Our experienced clinical team combines compassionate support with proven therapies to help you regain balance, clarity, and stability.
Evidence-Based Trauma Therapies We Offer
Trauma therapy is a form of mental health treatment designed to help you address traumatic experiences to support the healing process. There are several types of trauma-informed and trauma-focused therapies that can work in collaboration with other types of psychotherapy. Listed below are some of the trauma-informed and trauma-focused therapies we offer through trauma treatment in our Los Angeles treatment center:
- Trauma therapy
- Reduces fear and avoidance
- Improves coping skills
- Somatic experiencing (SE)
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Understand the psychological roots of emotional suffering
- Helps alleviate anxiety, depression, panic, and stress-related physical ailments
- Individual therapy
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
- Family and group therapy
- Body-based modalities
- Mindful movement and yoga
- Holistic treatment modalities
- Experiential and adventure psychotherapy
- Art and music psychotherapy
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT is a type of psychotherapy used to help dismantle unhealthy and unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Listed below are some of the components and benefits of CBT as an individual therapy:
- Offers a structured and goal-focused treatment program
- Teaches new approaches to thinking and behavior patterns
- Fosters healthy coping skills
- Improves emotional regulation
- Supports mindfulness through focusing on the present and building problem-solving skills
- Can help reduce cravings in substance abuse
- Supports relapse prevention
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT is a behavioral trauma-informed therapy that helps you learn how to manage intense emotions and distress. Some of the components and benefits of DBT include:
- Utilizing mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotional regulation practices
- Supports building coping skills to manage intense emotions, thoughts, and trauma-related symptoms like flashbacks
- Improves relationships through interpersonal effectiveness
- Greater ability to set and pursue goals
- Mindful practices support self-acceptance and change
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is a trauma-focused therapy designed to address and process the impact of traumatic events, trauma, and complex trauma on your well-being and quality of life. Listed below are some of the elements and benefits of EMDR trauma therapy:
- Helps you engage in the effective reprocessing of traumatic experiences by recalling traumatic memories
- Utilizes the back-and-forth movement of movement, light, or sound to focus on during memory recall
- The movement of a finger back and forth across your field of vision
- Beeping sounds
- Moving a penlight across your field of vision
- It can help decrease the intensity of traumatic memories and feelings
- Reprocessing experienced trauma can help reduce negative feelings and rebuild positive beliefs about yourself
Somatic Experiencing and Body-Based Modalities
SE and body-based modalities like mindful movement and yoga offer a way to process and release traumatic experiences. Somatic experiencing and other body-based modalities are particularly valuable for addressing the bodily sensations of stuck trauma that manifests itself in the body. Listed below are some of the elements and benefits of SE, mindful movement, and yoga:
- Somatic experiencing
- Focuses on the conscious mind-body connection
- Improves ability to be fully present in the here and now
- Help relieve stress, anxiety, and depression
- Focusing on physical sensations rather than the intensity of the thoughts and emotions
- Helps alleviate stress, anxiety, and other traumatic symptoms
- Supports greater self-awareness
- Improves emotional regulation
- Mindful movement
- Intentional, judgment-free engagement with the body through gentle stretches, breathing, walking, and other simple movements
- Helps calm your nervous system, build emotional resilience, and rebuild your sense of safety
- Intentional, judgment-free engagement with the body through gentle stretches, breathing, walking, and other simple movements
- Trauma-informed yoga
- Fosters a sense of safety, choice, and autonomy in a supportive environment
- Supports mindfulness and being present through gentle movements and breathwork
- Increases bodily and self-awareness
Experiential, Art, and Music Therapies
Creative and experiential therapies, such as art, music, adventure, and equine and animal therapy, offer holistic approaches to healing. These holistic treatment modalities provide a safe space in a supportive environment to be creative and expressive for healing your self-esteem, sense of self, and your place in the world. Listed below are some of the elements and benefits of creative and experiential treatment modalities:
- Adventure and experiential therapy
- Hands-on activities help process repressed feelings and cope with past trauma
- Equine and animal therapy
- Engaging with horses and other animals helps build trust, reduce emotional stress, and support emotional regulation
- Art and music therapy
- Participating in creative therapies supports emotional expression and helps improve self-awareness, stress management, and emotional processing
Family and Group Therapy for Trauma Recovery
Access to community-based therapies, such as family and group therapy, offers clients a sense of community and connection. Additionally, the group or community aspect of family and group therapy creates a safe space for support, processing difficult emotions, and building healthy coping skills. Listed below are some of the other benefits of family and group therapy:
- Family therapy
- Improves communication with loved ones
- Helps resolve conflict and unhealthy relationship dynamics
- Learn how to build healthier communication patterns
- Address the impact of substance abuse and or co-occurring mental health conditions of the entire family
- Provides a supportive environment for interpersonal interconnection and the healing process for everyone
- Rebuilds or establishes trust with others
- Supports shared understanding and empathy for each other
- Fosters a mutually supportive network
- Improves communication with loved ones
- Group therapy
- Offers a safe space for sharing experiences, expressing emotions, and reprocessing trauma
- Shared experiences help validate the truth of your experiences
- Helps reduce self-blame and shame around your experienced trauma
- Teaches and reinforces healthy coping skills
- Fosters resilience
- Rebuilds hope and motivation to engage in the healing process
- Increases your sense of belonging through connection
- Supports a strong therapeutic relationship with clinicians
- Builds a strong support network of peers, clinicians, and loved ones
Compassionate Care for Lasting Recovery
Our team is here to guide you through every step of the healing process with personalized, evidence-based treatment designed for long-term success.
A Trauma-Informed and Inclusive Approach
Support for LGBTQ+ Clients and Diverse Communities
Historically, addiction research and treatment programs have been centered around men because of their historically higher prevalence of substance use disorder (SUD). Additionally, PTSD has been associated with soldiers and predominantly men, despite the higher prevalence of traumatic experiences and PTSD among women both in and outside of the military.
A higher focus on men in treatment programs for trauma-related mental health treatment has resulted in barriers to treatment and personalized care for individuals whose identities do not match a heterosexual, cisgender, and often White male experience. Thus, at Profound Treatment, we are dedicated to providing personalized care to vulnerable groups like cisgender women, people of color, transgender men and women, and other members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Our holistic approach to evidence-based therapies and modalities ensures underserved communities have access to tailored therapeutic approaches and healthcare services like:
- Mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches
- Trauma-informed care
- Culturally competent and empathic personalized care
- Staff are trained in diversity and inclusion
- Creation and enforcement of affirming policies and practices
- We work with LGBTQIA+ advocacy organizations throughout Los Angeles
- LGBTQ-affirming sober living and aftercare
- Family services
- Responsive quality care for experienced trauma, societal pressures, and internal struggles
- A gender-affirming sanctuary
- Optional private rooms for those who prefer more privacy
- Safe and supportive environment free from prejudice
- Access to an LGBTQIA+ and HIV-positive recovery specialist
- Our specialist, Jason D’Abrosca, provides identity-centered, trauma-informed, and affirming individual counseling
- Vocational and life skills training for instrumental and informational support
- Resolve court issues
- Stable employment and housing
- Personal finance education
- Banking
- Rebuilding your credit
- Making financial amends with family members or a loved one
- Structure and self-care
- Building a daily routine for healthy habit formation
- Eating nutritious foods, quality sleep, regular exercise, proper hygiene, and mindfulness
- Communication skills
- Skillfully navigate difficult social situations with sensitivity and consideration of others’ feelings
- Conflict resolution
- Set healthy boundaries
- Stress management
- Budget your time, emotional regulation, and positive coping strategies
Signs You May Need Trauma Treatment
Understanding Trauma and Its Effects
The effects of trauma, including complex trauma, can have a significant impact on your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Traumatic experiences can lead to emotional deregulation, the erosion of self-esteem, and a lack of a sense of safety in the world, which impairs your quality of life. Listed below are some of the signs and symptoms that highlight the need for trauma therapy or a trauma-informed treatment program:
- Excessive worry
- Feeling very anxious, sad, or fearful a lot
- Difficulty thinking clearly
- Feeling angry, resentful, or irritable
- Having nightmares or difficulty sleeping
- Experiencing intrusive and frightening thoughts or flashbacks about the trauma
- Avoiding people, places, situations, and things that trigger traumatic memories
- Self-isolation
- Avoid thinking about or talking about the trauma
- Being very jumpy and easily startled
- Hypervigilance
- Being overly watchful of your surroundings
- Difficulty remembering parts of the traumatic event
- No longer enjoying hobbies or activities
- Feeling detached from others
- Having negative and distorted thoughts and feelings about yourself or others
- Reckless or self-destructive behavior
Why Choose Profound Treatment in Los Angeles?
Our trauma-informed in-person treatment center is designed to provide comprehensive, evidence-based therapies and treatment modalities. Evidence-based and holistic treatment modalities not only support addiction and mental health recovery but also a whole-person healing process.
At Profound Treatment, profound change for a fulfilling and higher quality of life is found in the compassionate and experienced care of our trauma therapists and other clinicians. Moreover, our holistic approach to personalized care means you can tailor your trauma treatment to match your unique needs, experiences, and preferences. Whether you need addiction treatment, mental health treatment, or dual diagnosis, there is a treatment program for you.
We take great pride in our commitment to providing a safe space and supportive environment where whole-person healing can truly take place. Listed below are some of the ways we provide a peaceful and safe space to heal and recover:
- A tranquil setting to connect with nature
- Easy access to the relaxing and scenic beaches of Malibu
- An outdoor lounge
- A scenic outdoor pool
- Spa
- Lush, landscaped gardens
- Walking trails
- Access to private rooms (pending availability)
Experienced trauma tries to rob you of your safety, but in our trauma treatment in Los Angeles, we meet you where you are, offering holistic, ongoing care to help you heal in mind, body, and spirit.
A Supportive Path Forward Starts Here
Whether you’re seeking help for yourself or a loved one, we provide a safe, structured environment where real change can begin.
Frequently Asked Questions About Trauma Treatment
Yes, there is a strong correlation between a traumatic event and the development of eating disorders. In some cases, eating disorders may develop as a self-medicating coping strategy for overwhelming thoughts and feelings related to experienced trauma. Thus, trauma treatment in Los Angeles can be an invaluable tool for healing.
Traumatic events and experiences can have a significant impact on your physical, emotional, and mental health and well-being. However, trauma-informed and trauma-focused care in an evidence-based treatment program can support healing and lasting recovery. Through holistic trauma treatment in Los Angeles, you can access a wide range of therapies and modalities like somatic experiencing, EMDR, and art and music therapy to help you reprocess and build healthy coping skills for a quality life in recovery. Call Profound Treatment at (855) 996-9655 to learn more about our trauma treatment program for addiction and mental health.