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Trauma Recovery and Emotional Safety Library
Careful, plain-language guides on trauma responses, trust, grounding, and starting therapy at your own pace, from a Michigan psychologist's practice.
The effects of a painful experience do not always stay in the past. They can show up years later in how you sleep, how much you trust people, or how quickly your body goes on alert. These guides explain what professionals mean by terms like trauma-informed care, how trauma can affect relationships, and what beginning therapy for trauma tends to involve.
Nothing here is a test or a diagnosis, and none of it asks you to revisit details of what happened. The articles are meant to make the subject a little less confusing so you can decide what kind of support fits. If you are ready to talk with someone, the trauma recovery page explains how Dr. Lehmann works with adults in Franklin and by telehealth across Michigan, and relationship concerns covers individual work on trust and conflict.
If you are not safe right now, please skip ahead to the safety information at the end of any article, or call 911 in an emergency or call or text 988.
Guides
What Does Trauma-Informed Therapy Mean?
Trauma-informed describes a way of providing care, not a specific therapy. What SAMHSA's framework means and how it differs from trauma-focused treatment.
Read the guideHow Trauma Can Affect Trust and Relationships
Why painful experiences can make trust and closeness harder, how that shows up with partners and friends, and how partners and therapy can support change.
Read the guideWhat to Expect When Beginning Therapy for Trauma
What the first sessions of therapy for trauma usually involve, why you do not have to tell your whole story at once, and how pacing and choice fit in.
Read the guideGrounding Strategies: What They Can and Cannot Do
Grounding can help you steady yourself in a hard moment. What it is, simple ways people use it, why it is not treatment, and when it is not enough.
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