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Childhood trauma can cause you mental trouble long after it occurred. It may affect your relationships, self-image, mental health, and even your physical wellbeing.

Mental Health Match connects you with top-notch therapists who can help you manage the feelings, behaviors, and triggers associated with traumatic childhood events. Whether you are located in downtown St. Louis, Academy, Baden, Debaliviere Place, or even Eureka, Mental Health Match can help you easily find an experienced therapist or counselor who best meets your needs.

Childhood Trauma Symptoms

Childhood trauma stems from childhood abuse, neglect, accidents, and more. It can affect adolescents, teens, and adults, causing them to experience a wide range of symptoms, some of which include:

  • Chronic sadness or depression
  • Worry
  • Anger and irritability
  • Panic attacks
  • Trouble sleeping
  • Mood swings
  • Poor concentration

If you’re experiencing any of these symptoms, therapy can help to improve the quality of your life. You can learn more about childhood trauma and how it affects you in this article from therapist Lacy Shawn.

Overcome Your Childhood Trauma with Therapy

There’s no better time to seek treatment for childhood trauma than now - therapy can help you heal and let go of the trauma. Mental Health Match can help get you started by connecting you with a licensed therapist fast. Get childhood trauma therapy and counseling online or in-person. Browse below, or use our therapist matching survey to get personalized results.

St. Louis, MO Childhood Trauma Therapists - List Your Practice on Mental Health Match

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focus on helping you cope and reduce your distress. The process of self-discovery can lead to an increased understanding and acceptance of yourself. It can also lead to an expansion of comfort with all aspects of yourself.


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focus on helping you cope and reduce your distress. The process of self-discovery can lead to an increased understanding and acceptance of yourself. It can also lead to an expansion of comfort with all aspects of yourself.

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My approach is strength-based and focuses on using curiosity to attend to those areas of a client’s current functioning which enhance addressing daily challenges and those which interfere with daily functioning.

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  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Eating Disorders
  • LGBTQ+
  • Relationships
  • Trauma
  • Women
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Start with goal setting, psychoeducation, and skill development, followed by further insight to facilitate self-exploration, understanding, and growth.


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Start with goal setting, psychoeducation, and skill development, followed by further insight to facilitate self-exploration, understanding, and growth.

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If talk therapy isn't working for you, we will be a great fit. I implement evidence-based treatments and provide my clients with skills to navigate their concerns outside of the therapy room. My approach will always be tailed to fit your exact needs.

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  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Harm OCD
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Pedophilic Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (POCD)
  • Perfectionism
  • Social Anxiety
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Lauren Robinson
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I want my clients to be able to discuss what they want, when they want, but we will also set goals, structure and actions steps to help us move toward relief and peace. I believe in a collaborative process and am honored to be along for the ride.


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I want my clients to be able to discuss what they want, when they want, but we will also set goals, structure and actions steps to help us move toward relief and peace. I believe in a collaborative process and am honored to be along for the ride.

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A few of my approaches include- Solutions-focused, Strengths-based, trauma informed and emotionally focused therapies. I also am client centered, and want to help YOU- therapy isn't one size fits all.

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  • Acute Grief
  • Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents
  • Anticipatory Grief
  • Anxiety
  • Behavioral Issues
  • Career Counseling
  • Children of Divorce
  • Codependency
  • Complicated Grief
  • Confidence
  • Coping Skills
  • Depression
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence Survivors
  • Emotional Disturbance
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Family Conflict
  • Family Dynamics
  • Geriatric
  • Grief
  • Grief from Losing a Pet
  • High School
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Life Transitions
  • Parenting
  • Parenting Skills
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationship Skills
  • Reparenting Yourself
  • School Issues
  • Self Care
  • Senior Citizens
  • Situational Grief
  • Stress
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Suicide loss
  • Transgender
  • Trauma
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Emily Overland
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I help people travel to the depths of their past to bring old patterning to the light to effectively evaluate and either let go or let be. I coach people to find new and healthy patterns by increasing internal safety in create a life worth living.


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I help people travel to the depths of their past to bring old patterning to the light to effectively evaluate and either let go or let be. I coach people to find new and healthy patterns by increasing internal safety in create a life worth living.

Something to know about my approach is:

My approach is influenced by 14 years of providing cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and trauma informed yoga thus I will help you increase awareness while stabilizing before working through trauma.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Behavioral Issues
  • Confidence
  • Coping Skills
  • Disordered Eating
  • Identity
  • Impulsive Behavior
  • Intergenerational Trauma
  • Secondary Trauma
  • Self-Esteem
  • Trauma
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We utilize a cognitive behavioral approach to build awareness, coping skills, and a space to foster healthy habits for wellness. For diagnostic evaluations, a thorough review of needs, individualized battery, and recommendations is provided.


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We utilize a cognitive behavioral approach to build awareness, coping skills, and a space to foster healthy habits for wellness. For diagnostic evaluations, a thorough review of needs, individualized battery, and recommendations is provided.

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We have extensive training and experience which creates a unique skill set and passion for working with individuals to support needs around developmental delays, emotional regulation, anxiety, depression, trauma and coping skill development.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adult ADHD
  • Anxiety
  • Assessments
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Autism Testing
  • Behavioral Disorders
  • Childhood Abuse or Neglect
  • Childhood Issues
  • Co-Parenting
  • Depression
  • Developmental Disorders
  • Executive Functioning
  • Parenting Children With ADHD
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