Finding Peace This Holiday Season with A Trauma Informed Therapist
The holidays often bring a mix of joy, pressure, reflection, and emotional complexity. For many individuals, this season can intensify stress, anxiety, trauma responses, and relationship challenges. As a trauma-informed mental health therapist in Edmond, Oklahoma, specializing in trauma and sex therapy, I support clients who find this time of year triggering, overwhelming, or emotionally draining.
If you’ve been feeling the weight of the season, you’re not alone and you don’t have to navigate it without support.
Why the Holiday Season Can Be Especially Challenging
The closing months of the year naturally invite reflection, but for many people, this reflection isn’t always peaceful. Old wounds, family dynamics, relationship difficulties, and unresolved trauma can resurface during the holidays.
1. Trauma Responses Often Increase During the Holidays
Sights, sounds, memories, and interactions can activate your nervous system. A trauma-informed approach honors your experiences, prioritizes safety, and supports you in feeling grounded during these moments.
2. Relationship and Intimacy Stress Can Intensify
The holidays may heighten feelings of disconnection, sexual frustration, relational strain, or communication issues. Sex therapy provides a supportive, nonjudgmental space to explore these concerns and strengthen relational intimacy.
3. Emotional Overload Makes It Hard to Cope
Overwhelm, sensory load, and expectations can make it difficult to regulate emotions. Trauma-aware strategies help you understand your triggers and respond with compassion instead of judgment.
How Trauma-Informed Therapy Supports You During the Holidays
As a trauma-informed therapist in Edmond, I create a safe, validating environment where you can explore your experiences without pressure or fear. During the holiday season, therapy can help you:
Understand trauma triggers and nervous system reactions
Build grounding techniques for stress reduction
Navigate family dynamics with clarity and boundaries
Create safety and stability when emotions feel heightened
Develop practical coping tools for difficult moments
Your nervous system and emotional health deserve care, especially when the world around you feels overwhelming.
EMDR Therapy for Holiday Stress, Trauma, and Emotional Reprocessing
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a powerful modality that helps the brain process trauma and reduce distress from past experiences. Many clients find EMDR particularly helpful during the holidays when old memories or difficult emotions resurface.
EMDR may support you in:
Reducing holiday-related anxiety or flashbacks
Healing unresolved trauma that feels magnified this time of year
Strengthening emotional resilience
Separating the past from the present so you can feel safer and more grounded
Whether you're working through trauma, grief, or past relational wounds, EMDR offers a path toward healing and emotional freedom.
Sex Therapy for Connection, Healing, and Intimacy During the Season
The holiday season often brings relationship challenges to the surface—communication issues, intimacy concerns, sexual disconnection, or feelings of shame or confusion.
As a sex therapist in Edmond, Oklahoma, I support individuals and couples in:
Healing sexual shame or trauma
Improving communication and emotional intimacy
Navigating desire differences
Understanding sexual anxiety or avoidance
Rebuilding connection after relational difficulties
Sex therapy is rooted in safety, consent, curiosity, and compassion. Your sexual well-being is an important part of your overall mental health, and it deserves care, too.
Begin the New Year Feeling Grounded, Connected, and Supported
Holiday stress doesn’t have to define this season. With trauma-informed therapy, EMDR, and sex therapy, you can enter the new year with:
Emotional clarity
Greater self-understanding
A regulated nervous system
Relationship tools that support connection
A renewed sense of safety and empowerment
Your healing matters, and now is a deeply meaningful time to begin.
A Holiday Invitation to New Clients in Edmond, Oklahoma
If you're ready to receive holiday stress support in Edmond OK, I am currently welcoming new clients who want to begin their healing journey during this time of transition.
Let this season be the start of your next chapter, one grounded in healing, safety, and supportive connection.