A great deal takes place in your mind and body when you experience trauma. Traumatic events change how we experience ourselves and the world. Sensations and emotions can become stuck in time and it can feel like you are caught in a loop of re-living traumatic events.
You may have deep rooted beliefs about what the experience of trauma means about you, other people, boundaries and relationships. Many of these beliefs are negative and may be having more influence over your reactions and choices than you know.
With the right support, you can restore your feelings of internal safety and begin to process your trauma.
You can explore unhelpful beliefs that may have cemented at the time of the trauma and replace them with healthier and more positive beliefs. Trauma counselling works towards feeling safe in your body and in relationships and feeling like you are in the driver’s seat of your life.
This allows you to move forward and start living your life without any further blockages.
Clinical supervision is available for individuals, groups for community and Non-government organisations.
Receive trauma counselling that responds to your needs.
Therapeutic modalities include, EMDR Havening and Somatic Experiencing therapy.
Learn more about complex trauma, the treatment modalities of trauma
and the role dissociative disorders play in the context of trauma.
Hi, I’m Esen.
As a highly experienced trauma counsellor in Melbourne, I work with people who have complex trauma and dissociative disorders.
My trauma counselling services include more than talking therapy. Our bodies (nervous systems) carry traumatic events; therefore, the trauma counselling needs to be somatic. Together we will engage and work with your nervous system, where many of your traumatic experiences have become ‘trapped’ in your body. Together we can reduce the impacts of trauma that might be getting in the way of your life and how you would like to feel.
I use a range of therapeutic modalities, including EMDR, Somatic Experiencing and Havening to change the somatic and cognitive memories that are trapped in your body.
The approach I take is compassionate and never judgemental. I am committed to working with you, so you can begin to feel more connected to your body, your values and the person you want to be.
I have presented in different forums to read those presentations, you can read them here.
If you are interested to learn more about complex trauma, the treatment of trauma and dissociative disorders in the context of trauma, please get in touch to discuss a tailored workshop or training for counsellors program.
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“Esen is one of the best trauma therapists available today. Esen’s client’s respond to her compassion and the safe space she creates for them in the counselling room. She has a highly developed capacity to build strong and trusting relationships with client’s and combines this human connection with expertise in multiple best practice trauma approaches. All of these ingredients combine to create positive shifts for Esen’s client’s, even those with the most complex trauma histories”
“Esen provides a compassionate, patient, professional and down to earth counselling service that I couldn’t recommend more. Esen gets 5 stars, a 10/10, and a big thank you from me.”
“Thank you Esen for today! It is incredible.
That memory is now complete in a way that it wasn’t before. It no longer erratically runs through a repetitive and scary, fast loop.
Now it is a full, linear recollection. I can remember the experience, but it lacks the distressing turbulence it previously held in my mind.
I don’t fear it. Amazing!!”
“Esen is a highly skilled and committed therapist specialising in responding to complex trauma. She holds the client at the centre of her practice, developing a collaborative relationship based on safety and trust. Esen thrives on learning and developing her knowledge and skills. She has extensive practice experience and combines this with new understandings of the role of neurobiology, the autonomic nervous system and body based therapies. Esen is a truly present therapist who assists her clients to find their voice, understand their responses, identify their goals and find compassion and self acceptance.”
Call or email to make an inquiry and find out if trauma counselling is suitable for your needs.
We will meet in person at my Melbourne location and work together one-on-one. Tele-health is also an option in certain circumstances.
I use my expertise as a trauma counsellor and your internal experiences to help you heal, achieve your counselling goals and move forward with confidence.
