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You can't change what happened. You can give your child a safe place to make sense of it.
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Something happened, and they've been different since.
Maybe you know exactly what it was: the accident, the loss, the thing they saw, the thing that happened to them.
Maybe you only know the after. The nightmares, the clinginess that came back, the sudden rages, the kid who used to sleep through the night and now won't. Maybe they won't talk about it at all, and you don't know whether to push or leave it alone.
And the questions you only ask yourself, on the 2am loop: "Did I miss something?" "Should we have come in right after?" "Is something actually wrong?" It starts with one memory and ends up everywhere.
People around you have opinions about the timeline. Kids bounce back. It was so long ago. He seems fine to me. Meanwhile you're the one in the hallway at 3am when the nightmare hits, and fine is not the word you'd use.
You're not overreacting. When a child changes after a hard experience, the change is them telling you it's still with them.
Your child is carrying something their body hasn't been able to put down.
On the surface it can look like behavior problems, anxiety, or a kid who should be over it by now. Underneath, a nervous system went into protection mode and never got the message the danger passed.
They can't decide their way out of that. Trauma lives in the body more than in the story, and that's exactly why "just talk to me about it" rarely works, and why being made to retell it can make things worse.
So we don't make them.
For younger children, play therapy. Kids replay hard things in their play, at a distance that feels safe, the crash rebuilt with cars, the scary thing happening to the puppet instead. I follow it, I don't force it, and the processing happens inside the play whether or not the event ever gets named out loud.
For teens, and for some younger kids, Brainspotting. It's a brain-body approach that lets the nervous system release what it's holding without a verbal retelling. Your teen doesn't have to find the words for it to move.
The pace belongs to your child. That's not a soft preference. Pushing a traumatized kid faster than their body can go teaches them the therapy room isn't safe either, and then you've lost the one place that was working.
And you get parent coaching every four weeks, because the hardest part of parenting a child through this is not knowing what to do when it surfaces at home. We work on exactly that.
I'm Hannah Ly, LMFT, founder of Your Therapy Nook. I'm trained in Synergetic Play Therapy and Brainspotting, including Brainspotting for children, and the thing I hold hardest in trauma work is pace. Pushing a kid faster than their body can go teaches them the therapy room isn't safe either. So we don't.
It's not just me anymore. Every child and teen therapist here trained under me and I review every case weekly, so whoever your family is matched with, you're getting someone I'd trust with my own kids. I run every consultation myself, and you can request a specific therapist on the call.
But over time, what families describe is the charge coming out of it:
Not forgetting. The event stays part of their story. It stops being the thing running it.
You tell us what happened, or what you've been seeing. We tell you honestly whether this is a fit, how we'd approach it, and which therapist is the right match for your child. You don't have to have the whole story straight.
We take the history from you first, so your child never has to be the one to explain.
Play, or Brainspotting, at your child's pace.
What to do when it shows up at home.
No. That's the point of how we work. Play therapy and Brainspotting both process trauma without a forced retelling, and for most kids that's not just gentler, it's more effective.
No. Trauma doesn't expire, and it often surfaces at a new developmental stage, a new school, adolescence, a reminder nobody saw coming. Showing up years later is normal, and it responds to the same work.
$200 to $270 per session depending on the therapist, private pay, superbills provided.
