Integrative Trauma Treatment (STM)
Integrative Trauma Treatment in Malibu, CA
The Beach Cottage is a trauma treatment center in Malibu, California, offering focused, one-on-one trauma therapy for adults. Our Seasons Integrative Trauma Treatment Model helps you work through the root of past trauma in a safe, supportive setting, at your own pace. We work with adults who come to us from across Greater Los Angeles and Southern California, including Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and the South Bay.
The Seasons Integrative Trauma Treatment Model (STM) is a program for care that focuses on core traumatic experiences. STM has shown a great improvement in functioning for those who graduate from our recommended program.
The behavioral and emotional impairments that affect our lives are often not repaired because the original trauma was never healed. These events get re-created and can cause further disruption in daily functioning. STM allows for a client to safely move through these processes without fear, re-triggering or re-traumatization.
The Beach Cottage at Seasons in Malibu offers up to 65 one-on-one sessions a month for the client. This critical piece of trauma therapy allows for an abundance of focused programming that takes individual and diverse needs into consideration. Each client works through a series of therapeutic “stages” that allow for a concrete and clear resolution. The goal is to integrate adaptive emotional tools so that an individual does not have to suffer emotionally anymore.
How Do I Know If I Am Suffering From Trauma
There are a variety of trauma symptoms that present differently for each person. Some symptoms of trauma include:
Attachment
- Uncertainty about the reliability and predictability of the world
- Problems with boundaries
- Distress and suspiciousness
- Social isolation
- Interpersonal difficulties
- Difficulty attuning to other people’s emotional state
- Difficulty with perspective taking
- Difficulty enlisting other people as allies
Biology and Physical Health
- Sensorimotor developmental problems
- Hypersensitivity to physical contact
- Analgesia or the inability to feel pain
- Problems with concentration, balance, body tone
- Difficulties localizing skin contact
- Somatization which is the production of recurrent medical symptoms with no discernible organic cause
- Increased medical problems across a wide span, e.g. pelvic pain, asthma, skin problems, autoimmune disorders, pseudo seizures
Affect Regulation
- Difficulty with emotional self-regulation
- Difficulty describing feelings and internal experience
- Problems with knowing and describing internal states
- Difficulty communicating wishes and desires
Behavioral control
- Poor modulation of impulses
- Self-destructive behavior
- Aggression against others
- Pathological self-soothing behaviors
- Sleep disturbances
- Eating disorders
- Substance abuse
- Excessive compliance
- Oppositional behavior
- Difficulty understanding and complying with rules
- Communication of traumatic past by reenactment in day-to-day behavior or play such as sexual or aggressive behaviors.
Cognition
- Difficulties in attention regulation and executive functioning
- Lack of sustained curiosity
- Problems with processing novel information
- Problems focusing on and completing tasks
- Problems with object constancy
- Difficulty planning and anticipating
- Problems understanding one’s own contribution to what happens to them
- Learning difficulties
- Problems with language development
- Problems with orientation in time and space
- Acoustic and visual perceptual problems
- Impaired comprehension of complex visual-spatial patterns
Self-concept
- Lack of a continuous, predictable sense of self
- Poor sense of separateness
- Disturbances of body image
- Low self-esteem
- Shame and guilt
Additional Symptoms
- Shock, including numbed emotions and/or questioning your memory
- Denial
- Feelings of helplessness
- Fear of dying or being abandoned
- Confusion and disorientation
- Numbness
- Panic
- Dissociation or feeling disconnected from yourself
- Feeling that the world is not real or is distorted
- Unwanted thoughts, including flashbacks to traumatic memories
- Feelings of loss of control
- Trouble sleeping
- Physical pain, including migraines or nausea
Dissociation
- Distinct alterations in states of consciousness
- Amnesia
- Depersonalization and Derealization
- Two or more distinct states of consciousness, with impaired memory for state-based event
The Seasons Method takes into account the specific needs of the individual and ensures a high level of stabilization while working through difficult processes. At the Beach Cottage, the client moves toward trauma resolution in a supportive social environment and establishes a much stronger positive prognosis for successful recovery.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is integrative trauma treatment?
Integrative trauma treatment brings together several proven approaches, rather than relying on one method, to address both the emotional and physical ways trauma shows up. At The Beach Cottage, that work is guided by our experienced, cohesive clinical team.
2. Where is your trauma treatment center located?
We are located in Malibu, California, on the coast. We care for adults who come to us from across Greater Los Angeles and Southern California, including Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and the South Bay. We also welcome clients nationally and internationally.
3. How is trauma therapy different from regular talk therapy?
Talk therapy can be a valuable part of healing, but trauma often lives in the body as well as the mind. Trauma therapy is designed to work with both, gently, so that difficult experiences can be processed without becoming overwhelming.
4. How long does trauma treatment take?
There is no single timeline. Healing depends on your history and your goals, and our team builds a pace that feels safe for you rather than rushing the process.
5. Do you offer trauma therapy near me?
If you are in the greater Los Angeles or Southern California area, yes. You can reach our team any time at 424-235-2009 or through our Get Help Now page to talk through whether we are the right fit.
If you or a loved one needs trauma treatment, please call one of our caring, admissions counselors now for a free, no-obligation and confidential conversation about how The Beach Cottage at Seasons in Malibu can help.
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