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Openforwards: Counselling Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) Birmingham

Birmingham City-Centre Psychology Service offering Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), ACT, EMDR and Compassion-focused Therapy, professional training and well-being consultancy.

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Trauma Therapy in Birmingham City Centre

When you’ve got trust issues, it can leave you feeling scared and overly self-reliant. Trauma Therapy can help you make sense of what’s happened.

When you have trust issues, it can lead to intense spells of fear and anxiety. You feel like you can’t cope and that something is deeply wrong with you. Often, this comes from feeling frightened and unsafe growing up.

You can also have periods where you feel painfully lonely and depressed. You blame yourself for the way you are. And other times, you may feel intensely angry at how others have let you down. The swing between these different moods makes you feel different to other people. In fact, you may have noticed that other people find it challenging to be around you.

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Where do trust issues come from?

None of this is your fault. Trust issues come from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Common examples of this are growing up around a lot of shouting, aggression or physical violence. Sexual abuse from family members or other people you should have been able to trust, leaves a scar that shapes how you feel about yourself and other people. ACEs are also caused by parents who were manipulative instead of caring, critical instead of encouraging and dismissive instead of accepting.

Once you understand more clearly your own childhood experiences, it can help you to deal with your own trust issues in relationships.  Our team of trauma therapy counsellors, psychologists and therapists can help.

How we can help

Trauma therapy helps by giving you time and space to tell your story. We’ll listen. And, we’ll help you understand your past. Through this process, you can begin to come to terms with what has happened and get help to cope better with life right now. Our aim is to help you change your future, despite your past.

The most useful way to approach this is to work closely with a therapist. In therapy, together, you’ll:

  • Develop a vision of the life you want
  • Create a plan to build better habits and coping mechanisms
  • Explore the subject of trust and get support to make your own choices and decisions

You will get help learning to reflect on day-to-day events that have become challenging.  With the guidance and support of a Psychologist, Counsellor or Psychotherapist, we’ll help you without telling you what to do or taking over the process.

Our Trauma Therapy service aims to help you build your resilience. Through a combination of methods including CBT, EMDR, Narrative Therapy and Compassion, we’ll listen to your experiences, move forwards at your pace and design interventions and exercises that show you new ways of coping. We can help you to be stronger and get closer to people, learning to trust them and repairing relationships when they break down.


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We have several therapists, male & female, who can help you improve the way you cope with thoughts, feelings and challenging life events.

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Not sure your problems are from a trauma or trust-related?  Maybe it’s more to do with anxiety, depression, confidence or stress. Or do you think you might benefit more from relationship counselling?  Just click the links to help you decide.

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