Trauma Counselling in Colchester
Trauma is not a story about what happened. It is a description of what happens in a person’s body and psyche in response to what happened. The knowing-without-feeling-safe. The body that braces before the conscious mind has registered a threat. The sleep interrupted by a nervous system that has never fully stood down. The way certain situations, sounds or moments produce a response that is disproportionate until you understand its history.
Dr Jacquet offers specialist trauma counselling and PTSD therapy in Colchester. He is an EMDR practitioner with over 20 years of experience u2014 qualified to the highest European standard in trauma-focused therapy.
For those dealing with the effects of traumatic experience, we offer dedicated trauma therapy in London u2014 an integrative approach combining EMDR, somatic work, and depth psychology.
The Therapeutic Approach
Trauma counselling at the Colchester practice integrates EMDR within a broader psychotherapeutic framework. EMDR processes the specific memories that retain their emotional and physiological charge; the surrounding psychotherapy provides the relational container that makes that processing safe and sustainable. The two together produce more thorough and durable results than either would achieve alone.
Art psychotherapy is also available where the traumatic material is difficult to approach through verbal language u2014 which is often the case with early trauma, or with experiences that were too overwhelming to be encoded in narrative form.
Types of Trauma Treated
The Colchester practice works with single-incident trauma, complex and developmental trauma, childhood abuse, assault, accident and medical trauma, and the traumatic underpinnings of presentations including eating disorders, addiction, depression and anxiety. Many people arrive not with a clear sense that they are carrying trauma u2014 only that something has never resolved, and that ordinary conversation has not reached it.
Complex Trauma
Complex trauma u2014 arising from repeated, prolonged or relational adversity rather than a single event u2014 requires a particular clinical patience. The work proceeds at the pace of the person, without pressure toward any particular milestone. This practice has extensive experience in complex trauma work.
Getting Started
An initial consultation in Colchester is the appropriate first step. You will not be asked to go anywhere you are not ready to go.