Trauma Therapy
Loosen the grip of the past.
Trauma-informed individual therapy for adults seeking meaningful, lasting change in how they experience themselves and their relationships.
Free • 15 minutes
A private, grounded space for in-person sessions in Miami Beach, with online therapy available throughout Florida.
Does This Feel Familiar?
You may already understand where these patterns come from. But understanding them doesn't always change how you respond. If past experiences continue to influence how you feel, respond, or relate to yourself and others, trauma therapy can help.
You may already understand where these patterns come from. You may even notice them while they're happening. And yet, when it matters most, they can still feel automatic. Understanding yourself can be an important part of healing. It just isn't always enough to change responses that developed over time.
Trauma therapy may be worth exploring if past experiences continue to affect your relationships, emotions, sense of self, or the way you move through the world today.
Does This Feel Familiar?
You may notice:
You don't need one defining event to benefit from trauma-informed therapy. Trauma can result from what happened, what happened repeatedly, or even what was missing. What matters most is how those experiences continue to affect you today.
Free • 15 minutes
Understanding Trauma
Trauma is more than what happened. It's also about how those experiences affected you and the ways they may continue to shape your body, emotions, relationships, and sense of self today.
Your body can learn to stay alert long after a difficult experience has passed. You might notice tension, a racing heart, trouble relaxing, feeling emotionally numb, exhaustion, or a strong urge to avoid or escape certain situations.
You may feel overwhelmed by emotion, disconnected from it, or move back and forth between the two. Over time, shame, self-doubt, anxiety, or self-criticism can become familiar ways of relating to yourself, making it difficult to separate who you are from the ways you've learned to protect yourself.
Earlier experiences can shape how you experience trust, closeness, conflict, and boundaries. You may find it difficult to trust others, expect rejection, take responsibility for other people's feelings, or feel strongly affected by familiar relationship dynamics.
These responses are not character flaws. They often reflect ways your mind and body adapted to help you cope, protect yourself, or preserve connection during difficult experiences.
Types of Trauma
Trauma doesn't look the same for everyone. Some experiences happen once, while others develop over time or from what was consistently missing. You don't need to know which type of trauma fits your experience. What matters most is how those experiences may still be affecting you today.
When fear, instability, emotional neglect, criticism, or unmet emotional needs happen repeatedly during childhood, they can continue to shape your sense of self, relationships, emotional responses, and ability to feel safe well into adulthood.
Read about childhood emotional neglect →Complex trauma can develop after repeated or prolonged experiences, particularly when you had little control, support, or ability to leave the situation. It can affect emotions, relationships, self-worth, and the ways you respond to stress long after those experiences have ended.
Betrayal, abandonment, emotional inconsistency, controlling relationships, or painful caregiving experiences can shape trust, closeness, boundaries, conflict, and the ways you relate to yourself and others.
Explore how trauma can show up in relationships →An accident, assault, medical event, natural disaster, sudden loss, or another overwhelming experience can continue to affect the mind and body long after the event has ended. Some people experience intrusive memories, nightmares, avoidance, or feeling constantly on guard.
Learn about EMDR for PTSD →Sometimes what was missing can have as much of an impact as what happened. Growing up without consistent emotional support, protection, or connection can later show up as self-doubt, people-pleasing, fear of rejection, or difficulty asking for help.
Serious illness, medical procedures, caregiving, reproductive experiences, sudden loss, or witnessing the suffering of someone you love can leave lasting emotional and physical effects, even long after the experience has ended.
You don't need a diagnosis to benefit from trauma-informed therapy. A consultation is an opportunity to talk through what's been happening and explore the support that's right for you.
Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma-informed therapy isn't a specific technique. It's an approach that recognizes the impact of difficult experiences and emphasizes safety, trust, collaboration, transparency, and choice. For some people, talking through their experiences brings meaningful relief. For others, understanding where these patterns come from still doesn't change how they respond. Trauma-informed therapy addresses both.
We begin with what is affecting you now and what you hope will feel different. Early sessions often focus on understanding your experiences, building a trusting therapeutic relationship, noticing how stress or activation shows up, and developing tools to help you feel more grounded in the present.
Trauma-informed therapy also recognizes that not every difficulty is rooted in trauma and that no single approach is right for everyone. Together, we'll discuss your options and tailor therapy to your goals, needs, and responses along the way.
Your Pace, Your Process
You don't need to remember or share every detail for therapy to be meaningful. You won't be asked to talk about difficult experiences before there's enough trust, safety, and stability to do so. Your pace and consent guide the process.
How We Treat Trauma
There isn't one approach that's right for everyone. At Soulstice Miami, therapy is tailored to your experiences, goals, and what feels most helpful for you. We draw from evidence-based, trauma-informed approaches to support meaningful, lasting change.
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that can help process distressing experiences that continue to affect the present. When it's an appropriate fit, EMDR may help reduce the intensity of distressing memories, beliefs, and emotional reactions so they no longer feel as overwhelming. EMDR is one option we may use, not the only one.
Somatic-informed therapy pays attention to how stress and protective responses show up in the body, including tension, breathing, posture, movement, and other physical sensations. The goal isn't to force relaxation, but to help you become more aware of these patterns and gradually respond with greater flexibility over time.
Attachment-focused therapy explores how earlier relationships may continue to shape trust, closeness, boundaries, and conflict. Parts-informed therapy approaches protective responses such as people-pleasing, perfectionism, withdrawing, overworking, self-criticism, or shutting down with curiosity and compassion rather than judgment.
What Sessions Can Look Like
Every person's experience is different, so therapy isn't one-size-fits-all. We'll move at a pace that feels right for you, adjusting the process based on your goals, needs, and readiness.
We'll begin by understanding what's bringing you in, what you hope will feel different, and learning about the experiences that have shaped you. You'll never be expected to share more than feels comfortable, and trust will develop over time.
Early sessions often focus on building safety and trust, understanding how stress shows up for you, and making sense of the patterns that helped you get through difficult experiences before deciding together if it's the right time to go deeper.
When the time feels right, therapy may explore memories, beliefs, protective responses, body sensations, or relationship patterns using approaches that fit your needs and goals.
Over time, you may begin responding differently to situations that once felt overwhelming, communicating your needs more openly, setting healthier boundaries, and feeling more like yourself in everyday life.
While everyone's experience is different, many people begin to notice changes like:
About
Soulstice Miami offers trauma-informed individual therapy for adults in Miami Beach and virtually across Florida, with a focus on trauma, anxiety, childhood emotional neglect, developmental and complex trauma, attachment, relationship patterns, and EMDR therapy.
Hayden Feinberg, LMHC, founded Soulstice Miami and works with adults. Jessica Frankel, LCSW, works with teens and adults. Both are trauma-informed and EMDR-trained therapists.
Complete a brief inquiry form and tell us what you're looking for.
Talk by phone about what's bringing you in, ask questions, and see if it feels like a good fit.
Meet in person at our Miami Beach office or virtually anywhere in Florida.
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Trauma therapy may be worth exploring if past experiences continue to affect how you feel, respond, relate to others, or experience yourself. You don't need to know for certain before reaching out. A consultation is simply an opportunity to talk through what's been happening and see whether trauma-informed therapy feels like the right fit.
You don't need to have everything figured out before reaching out. Whether you're beginning therapy for the first time or looking for a different approach after previous therapy, a free consultation is an opportunity to ask questions, share what's bringing you in, and see whether we're a good fit.
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