Trauma Informed Care

Discover Avatar's innovative cooccurring treatment model for trauma recovery.

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Signs & Symptoms

What is Trauma-Informed Treatment?

Signs & Symptoms
Our staff are trained to identify the signs and symptoms of trauma in patients, ensuring early detection and tailored support.

Impact on Recovery
We focus on understanding how trauma impact the recovery process, guiding our treatment to better support patients’ needs.

Patient-focused Approach

Certified Staff

Experts in Trauma-informed Care and Therapies

Clinical Focus

Recognize sign, symptoms, and impact of trauma

Support Recovery Needs

Fully trained to better assist patient recovery

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Specialized Therapies

Utilizing EMDR, CPT

  1. Trauma-informed Care:

    Trauma-informed care focuses on understanding and recognizing the impact of trauma on individuals. It creates an environment of safety, trust, and empowerment. Providers in this approach prioritize compassion, ensuring that services are responsive to the individual’s needs. This approach supports healing by acknowledging the trauma’s effects on a person’s mental, emotional, and physical well-being. It emphasizes a holistic, patient-centered experience that promotes recovery and resilience.

  2. EMDR Therapy:

    Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapeutic approach designed to help individuals process and heal from traumatic memories. Through bilateral stimulation, typically eye movements, EMDR helps the brain reprocess distressing memories. It reduces the emotional charge linked to trauma, allowing clients to reframe their experience. It is widely used for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and other trauma-related disorders. EMDR offers a powerful, evidence-based path to emotional healing.

  3. Cognitive Progressive Therapy:

    Cognitive Progressive Therapy (CPT) is a therapeutic approach aimed at challenging and transforming maladaptive thought patterns. By identifying negative beliefs, clients can learn to shift their thinking and behaviors. This therapy encourages self-awareness and personal growth, ultimately fostering healthier cognitive and emotional responses. CPT is particularly effective in treating depression, anxiety, and trauma. CBT is helping to heal and maintain mental health. It empowers individuals to rebuild their worldview and enhance their coping skills for long-term mental well-being.

  4. Somatic Trauma Therapy:

    Somatic Trauma Therapy is a body-focused therapeutic approach that acknowledges the connection between the body and mind in trauma healing. This therapy involves paying attention to physical sensations, emotions, and stored trauma in the body. Through mindful awareness, breathwork, and movement, individuals can release unresolved tension and trauma. It helps clients process emotions that may be held in the body, leading to deep healing and recovery. Somatic therapy offers a profound way to reconnect with one’s body and regain a sense of safety and control.

Optimizing Recovery Journey

Patient Recovery

  • Understanding the prevalence of trauma and adversity and their impacts on mental health and substance use recovery
  • Recognizing the effects of trauma in the recovery both short term and long term
  • Training leadership, providers, and staff on responding to patients with best practices in trauma-informed care to assure that best in class treatment is being provided and that the treatment is not resulting in additional trauma to the patient. The clinical goal is to provide clinical treatment that results in long term recovery and reduces the likely hood of relapse
  • Avoiding re-traumatization by approaching patients who have experienced ACEs and/or other adversities with non-judgmental support that is lead by our trained clinical staff on Trauma

Informed care and clinical interventions:

  • Establish the physical health and mental health safety of patients focusing on a integrated total care model
  • Recognize the signs, impacts, and symptoms of trauma on mental health and Substance Use recovery
  • Promote patient-centered, evidence-based care trauma informed treatment that will result in healthier recovery for patients
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Impact of Trauma

Explore the profoud impact of trauma on individual and the importance of recognizing signs and symptoms for providing tailored treatment. By understanding te unique need of each patient, we can design personalized interventions to support their journey towards recovery.

Trauma Recovery Support

  • Expertise: Certified in EMDR, CPT
  • Awareness: Recognize signs & impacts
  • Specialization: Somatic Trauma Therapy
  • Empowerement: Promote patient recovery

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Continual Support

Avatar’s clinical treatment is geared to help patients process trauma and challenges within their current living environment to assure that their return home post treatment provides long term recovery results. Avatar is local to New Jersey which helps patients work on their home environment and the triggers that impacted their use locally. We want patients to stay close to home to engage in preparing for return home, including strong family and loved one participation, and building the necessary recovery tools for long term recovery.

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We Accept

Most Major Insurance Plans