Heal Beyond Traumatic Experiences With Compassionate, Evidence-Based Care
Live Life Beyond Traumatic Experience
When a traumatic event or long-term stress overwhelms your ability to cope, its effects can overshadow every part of life, your relationships, your work, your sense of safety, and your emotional well-being.
Some people feel the impact of trauma immediately, while others suppress emotions until they can no longer contain them. Trauma reactions vary from person to person, but the need for compassionate, evidence-based support is universal.
If you are navigating symptoms of PTSD, complex PTSD, or acute stress disorder (ASD), early trauma-informed intervention can prevent long-term distress.
You are not alone. Support for emotional trauma recovery is available, and healing is possible.
There is a better life within reach.
What Is Trauma?
Nearly everyone experiences stressful or painful life events, but trauma occurs when an experience overwhelms your ability to cope, whether emotionally, mentally, or physically. Trauma may stem from a single event, such as a severe accident or assault, or from ongoing exposure to distress such as emotional abuse, neglect, or chronic high-pressure environments.
While many associate trauma with isolated incidents, long-term stress and repeated harmful experiences can be equally damaging and may lead to conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or complex PTSD (CPTSD).
These conditions can cause flashbacks, panic attacks, anxiety, depression, hypervigilance, sleep disturbances, and unhealthy coping behaviors. Some individuals turn to substances to numb emotional pain, leading to co-occurring addiction.
Understanding trauma and how it affects the brain and body, is the first step toward emotional recovery.
The Role of Trauma Therapy in Addiction Recovery
Trauma can significantly distort thought patterns, emotional regulation, and a person’s sense of safety. Many individuals coping with unresolved trauma turn to substances as a way to numb overwhelming feelings, which can lead to addiction.
Symptoms may include hypervigilance, risk-taking behaviors, nightmares, irritability, emotional numbing, and intrusive memories. Not everyone experiences trauma the same way, responses depend on the individual, the environment, and the type of trauma experienced.
In addiction recovery, addressing the trauma beneath the substance use is essential. Through trauma-informed therapy, individuals gain tools to process memories, regulate emotions, and reduce reactivity. This creates space for inner peace and builds resilience while working toward sobriety.
At the same time, clients engage in therapies designed to prevent relapse and strengthen long-term healing. Treating trauma is not optional, it is foundational to lasting recovery.
The Benefits of Working With a Trauma Therapist
Working with a trauma-informed therapist provides meaningful support for both mental health and addiction recovery. Trauma therapy helps restore a sense of safety, rebuild self-esteem, improve emotional regulation, and strengthen daily functioning.
Evidence-based trauma care empowers individuals to process memories safely, develop coping skills, and reconnect with their sense of purpose. With the right trauma treatment program, healing becomes not only possible, but sustainable.
Our Levels of Care for Those Suffering from the Effects of Trauma
For those suffering from trauma, feelings of empowerment and autonomy are key to recovery. Our treatment programs are scheduled during the day so that patients can work towards healing without the restrictions of an inpatient environment.
With our outpatient programs, individuals are able to return home or to a sober living arrangement in the evenings and have the flexibility to report to their jobs and tend to family obligations and other responsibilities.
Our trauma therapy programs include:
Individualized Intensive Program (IIP)
IIP is ideal for patients transitioning from a higher level of treatment or an inpatient program. This program offers evidence-based modalities and an integrative approach, but patients still have the flexibility to balance their recovery with responsibilities at work, home, or school.
Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)
A PHP is an intensive level of outpatient care that’s ideal for patients transitioning from a residential treatment program or IIP. Patients still have the flexibility to tend to work, home, or school but benefit from a structured environment for treatment and care in our welcoming rehab center in Houston.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
Our IOP is a good fit for patients who have completed IIP or inpatient treatment but may need more rigorous care than an outpatient program. This program can help patients who have taken the first step toward recovery on their own and need more long-term support, treatment, and accountability.
Outpatient Program (OP)
Mental health treatment programs provide evidence-based behavioral health therapy and psychiatry. A positive community of peer support, family therapy sessions, and a compassionate staff with an individualized, strategic plan. Patients learn skills like positive awareness, coping skills, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness in regular therapy sessions.
Effective Treatment for Trauma Survivors in Houston, Texas
At The Heights Treatment, every client receives a custom-tailored treatment plan designed to support healing of the whole person. Our trauma-informed programs blend evidence-based psychotherapy, group therapy, and individual sessions with adjunct therapies such as trauma-informed yoga, EMDR, mindfulness practices, and experiential therapies.
We treat trauma as a mind–body experience. Whether you’re healing from PTSD, complex PTSD (CPTSD), childhood trauma, or emotional trauma, our clinical team creates a personalized approach that supports long-term recovery and emotional resiliency.
Our goal is to help individuals process traumatic memories safely, reduce reactivity, strengthen coping skills, and rebuild a sense of safety and stability. Healing is not linear, but with the right support, it becomes achievable and sustainable.
Our therapies include:
FAQs About Trauma & Trauma Informed Therapy
We’ve answered some of your most common questions about trauma treatment.
What is EMDR Therapy?
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a psychotherapy used in many trauma recovery treatment plans. This modality involves movement of the eyes in a specific way while processing traumatic memories. The goal of EMDR therapy is to help the individual heal from traumatic events or other distress.
Can Trauma Cause a Dual Diagnosis?
The effects of trauma can be unbearable and leave the individual unable to cope with daily life In turn, the person may resort to abusing drugs and alcohol to “numb” the pain. This method of self-medication can quickly spiral out of control and result in an addiction.
When both an addiction and a mental health condition co-occur, this is known as a dual diagnosis.
What Happens in a Trauma Therapy Session?
What happens during a trauma therapy session depends on your specific situation and the type of therapy implemented. In some therapies, you will reprocess traumatic events. Other therapeutic modalities will involve self-expression. Others will incorporate self-talk.
No matter the type of therapy for trauma, you will work through the traumatic events and develop coping mechanisms to help you overcome the distress and duress experienced as a result of the trauma.
How Do You Feel After Your First Trauma Therapy Session?
Everyone feels different after trauma therapy. Some people feel an immediate sense of relief, even after their first therapy session. Other people feel a sense of sadness, anxiety, or depression as they recount distressing events. Both of these are completely normal responses to your first experience in trauma therapy.
Trauma therapy is not a one-time fix. It takes time to work through trauma and develop the coping skills necessary to return to a normal disposition.
What are the Signs and Symptoms of PTSD?
Both post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (C-PTSD) are a result of experiencing extreme stress, but there are key differentiators in their root cause.
PTSD may be caused by a single traumatic event, while C-PTSD is a result of ongoing trauma that lasts for months or years. C-PTSD can be a result of chronic childhood abuse or neglect, an abusive romantic relationship, or a high-stress career surrounded by death and disease, such as that of a pediatric oncologist.
Both forms of PTSD require holistic, individualized treatment and the guidance of a trauma-informed therapist for the best chance at lifelong healing.
What Types of Trauma Therapy are Most Effective in the Treatment of PTSD?
There is no one singular treatment that is the best therapy for PTSD. Everyone responds to trauma differently, as well as responds to trauma therapies differently. Some people will find that talk therapy like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is most helpful while others will find adjunct therapies such as EMDR, Trauma-informed yoga, or Neurofeedback more helpful.
The best treatment for trauma is the one that works for you as an individual. At The Heights, your care team will create a treatment plan that fits your unique situation so that your therapies are as conducive to your recovery as possible.
The Heights Treatment | You Can Heal Beyond Traumatic Memories
Living with trauma can feel like your mind and body are stuck in survival mode. The emotional exhaustion, hypervigilance, and overwhelming distress can make daily life feel unmanageable. But healing is possible, even if it doesn’t feel that way right now.
With the right trauma-informed care, individuals can safely process memories, reduce symptoms of PTSD or CPTSD, and rebuild internal stability. Recovery takes time and courage, but you do not have to walk this journey alone.
If you or a loved one is struggling with trauma, emotional distress, or co-occurring mental health challenges, help is available. Reach out today to learn how trauma therapy can help you reclaim your life, reconnect with yourself, and move forward with confidence.
