Trauma-Informed Care

- shifts the focus from “What is wrong with you?” to What happened to you?”

At 70 West Counseling, we believe in a trauma-informed care approach. Our care teams have a complete picture of each client’s individual life situation — both past and present —to provide effective mental health services. We believe that by incorporating a trauma-informed lens into our practice, client engagement improves, resulting in treatment adherence and overall improvement in both mental and physiological health.

Trauma-informed care seeks to:

• Realize the widespread impact of trauma and understand paths for recovery.

• Recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma in individual clients and how trauma affects all those within the client’s close family and social circles.

• Actively seek to avoid re-traumatization.