Why Create Individualized Trauma Plans?

Sadly, trauma therapy is a common need in our communities. Many types of traumatic experiences impact us in many different ways. At the office of Joe Langheim, we work hard to meet our clients where they are, and walk with them on an individualized plan to better mental health and quality of life, and delivery from aspects of the past that may haunt them.

Why is it so important to create an individualized trauma therapy plan?

Your Story is Different

One fundamental reason that individualized plans are so important is that no one else has your specific life experiences and background. The uniqueness of each human life is evident in sayings like “no one can do it for you” or “all you can control is you” – but these aren’t just trite sayings, because we really are each special and unique in more than a few ways.

Individualized plans create that sense of specificity that matches your unique character and circumstance.

Your Pain is Different

Have you ever heard anybody say something like this?

“Other people deal with (X) all the time - why is it so hard for you?”

That kind of thinking can be very damaging, and we try our best to dispel it here in our office. It's just not helpful or accurately insightful to the way we live our lives. People experience similar events differently, and it's not constructive to compare your pain to what someone else feels. In fact, this kind of statement really just shows a lack of empathy and a kind of confrontational mental stance that degrades a relationship between two people. Improper power balances often factor into our client’s past – and we work through those issues as well.

Different Modalities

Some of our patients benefit more from breathwork or Reiki;  others benefit more from cognitive behavioral therapy or some other approach. We have all of these modalities in-house to help provide the individualized care that our patients need.

There's been a lot of successful innovation and trauma therapy over the past few years. We've seen a lot of it at conferences and in journals and elsewhere. But the key is to implement these new tools effectively, and that means understanding how, when and where to use a particular resource. That's why we do so much discovery before we really start digging into therapy techniques. We want to know as much as we can about your personal situation and background, as well as how you confront the past, present and future, and that's the solid ground on which we build our trauma therapy models.