Trauma Focused Therapy

A Different Kind of Therapy for Trauma, Stress & Anxiety

Focused treatment designed to help you move beyond patterns that haven’t changed with talk therapy alone.

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Why Trauma Can Feel Stuck

Trauma changes more than your thoughts.

Trauma can shape how your nervous system responds to fear, stress, relationships, driving, public situations, injury, and memories of what happened.

My work focuses on helping change those patterns directly, using trauma-focused methods designed to reduce the emotional intensity attached to difficult experiences.

Areas of Focus

What I Help People Work Through

Trauma & PTSD

Reduce the emotional charge connected to overwhelming experiences and traumatic memories.

Anxiety & Panic

Address fear responses, panic, phobias, and patterns of chronic nervous-system activation.

Accident & Injury Recovery

Work with the emotional and physiological effects that can remain after accidents, injuries, or frightening medical experiences.

Relationships & Emotional Reactivity

Address patterns involving trust, attachment, anger, fear, and emotional responses that feel difficult to control.

Focused Trauma Treatment

The goal is not simply to understand why you feel the way you do. The work is aimed at changing how difficult experiences continue to affect you now.

How I Work

Processing trauma without endlessly retelling it.

I use Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and other trauma-focused approaches to help clients process distressing experiences without requiring prolonged retelling of every detail.

Treatment is focused, collaborative, and tailored to the experiences and responses that are creating difficulty in your life today.

You don’t have to spend years talking about the same thing.

Some problems benefit from traditional talk therapy. Others persist because the nervous system continues to respond as though the threat is still present.

Trauma-focused treatment is designed to work directly with those learned emotional and physiological responses.

Common Reasons People Come In

Who I Work With

I commonly work with adults experiencing the ongoing effects of trauma, anxiety, fear, and difficult life experiences.

Trauma & PTSD Anxiety Panic Phobias Accident-Related Distress Chronic Stress Grief & Loss Relationship Reactivity Trust & Intimacy Difficult Childhood Experiences
Dave Ebaugh, LCSW
Specialized Trauma Treatment

Dave Ebaugh, LCSW

I’m a licensed clinical social worker specializing in focused approaches to PTSD, anxiety, and distressing life experiences. My clinical work emphasizes efficient trauma processing and helping clients make changes they can actually feel outside the therapy room.

Interested in seeing whether this approach fits what you’re dealing with?

I offer a complimentary consultation so we can briefly discuss what’s going on and whether trauma-focused treatment makes sense for you.

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