Strength at Home:
Therapy for Veterans with PTSD
You’ve served with honor - now strengthen the relationships that matter most.
Whether it’s been days or decades since your military service, many prior military members struggle with relationships and reconciling their service with the demands of civilian life. Maybe you are in frequent conflict with your spouse and children, irritable with all the stupid people, tired of hearing that you are difficult or grumpy or moody all the time, feeling more like a burden than an asset. The vigilance, the nightmares, the overwhelm, the fear, the sleeplessness, the bullshit. You may find yourself wondering at times if it is even worth it anymore.
You may not be sure if therapy is the right thing for you, or maybe you’ve had or heard of some bad experiences. You don’t want to take the spot from someone else who really needs it.
Hear Me Out:
The people you love most need you at your best. It is natural to want to help others first when they are hurting, but modeling resilience and well-being will create a ripple effect.
You know this from your leadership experience. Exceptional leaders are proactive, accountable, honorable, courageous, and committed. They lead by example, for the betterment of those around them. While good leaders may “eat last,” they still eat — and they do so to best serve their team.
Your family is your team now.
Let’s talk about your seat at the table.
How can therapy help?
In therapy, we spend time talking about your service, your struggles, your background, and your goals. We connect how traumas from your past can cause the struggles you are currently having, no matter how long ago they may have occurred. Therapy is often a combination of processing past traumas and incorporating new skills to improve relationship dynamics and regulate mood. You will learn how to:
Recognize and articulate how you got here.
Reduce conflict and rebuild communication with your spouse, children, and other family members.
Rediscover joy and connection in the moments that matter.
Remain emotionally engaged, without lashing out or shutting down.
Restore trust in self and others.
Reconnect with friends and civilian society.
Recalibrate your nervous system, better balancing your vigilance with intuition.
Individual therapy, exposure therapy, and intensives are available for this type of work.
Become the partner, parent, and person you want to be.
It is possible to live a life without anger and overwhelm, and to restore more harmonious relational dynamics. We can start in the therapy room.
You want a therapist who understands the unique demands of PTSD and military relationships. I have been an active member in Team Rubicon, leading strike teams and C&G teams in disaster zones alongside Veterans. I am married to a Purple Heart combat veteran, and have let my Special Forces Green Beret stepfather talk me into dumb shit like climbing Mt. Rainier and biking 200-mile races. “Embrace the Suck” and “Fuck Around Find Out” are family mottos.
I have built my career around understanding and treating service members with PTSD. In my office, you do not need to worry about dark humor, sailor language, or shielding me from graphic trauma. You are in good hands.