Trauma Therapy with a Compassionate Approach
EMDR Certified Therapist for PTSD, Single Incident Trauma Therapy, and Multi-Trauma Survivor Therapy
The human brain is capable of healing from the weight of trauma memories.
Jordan assists clients who have experienced a trauma history find their path to peace, while identifying ways to move forward in life feeling less burdened by the event(s) that you lived through.
Jordan’s sees his clients having a renewed sense of hope after treatment–no longer having the event(s) that happened cause the level of suffering they did when starting treatment.
This happens through a reduction in triggers to PTSD symptoms with EMDR therapy for PTSD, including integrating other modalities like Brainspotting, Flash-Technique, Ego-State Work, Mindfulness & Solutions-Focused Modalities.
Treating Clients with PTSD
The caring and understanding approach at Nodelman Counseling & Psychotherapy has led many clients to finally feel safe enough to address trauma.
Through a combination of EMDR, Brainspotting, the Flash Technique, Psychotherapy and Mindfulness, clients have reported feeling more free and able to live an emotionally-unencumbered life by attending PTSD therapy in Fort Lauderdale, or getting telehealth for PTSD in Florida; telehealth for PTSD in Virginia or telehealth for PTSD in Washington DC.
Jordan will work with you on moving forward with the next chapter of your life, clear and free of the negative beliefs tied to memories that may be keeping you stuck. Additionally, because Jordan is an EMDR Certified Therapist and trained in other trauma modalities, he will assist you in reducing the automatic response to triggers you currently experience that were caused by the terrible event you experienced or witnessed.
When clients have experienced a traumatic event, a special approach is required from a therapist who is trained in trauma-specific modalities. Your brain has the capacity to heal because of neuroplasticity. Jordan was not only trained in a graduate clinical social work program that was 100% trauma focused, but he has worked with hundreds of clients who have survived unimaginable traumas. He is caring, he is an out-of-the-box thinker, and he approaches therapy as an art form. No two clients are alike.
Single incident trauma treatment responds very well to EMDR. Jordan has helped hundreds of clients regain their life. They have walked in depressed or anxious because of the event they went through and after EMDR, they leave renewed and more positive about life.
Some examples of single-incident trauma that past clients have sought treatment for include:
- Treatment for a car accident that caused a fear of driving or being in a car
- EMDR after witnessing a friend or family member suicide
- Trauma treatment after witnessing death
- Sexual assault survivors: men, women and LGBTQI+ folks
- Survivors of violent assault therapy
- EMDR after a home invasion
- Therapy for those who have lived through a natural disaster, hurricane, or earthquake
- Road accident therapy
- Medical trauma EMDR
- Overcoming/coping with Misophonia through root analysis and desensitization of triggers and root cause
- EMDR for childbirth trauma
- Life threatening illness or diagnosis EMDR
- Post-suicide attempt EMDR
- EMDR for Betrayal: relationship, work, family
- Little “T” Trauma: displacement due to job loss, loss of family, etc…
Jordan also offers individual counseling to adults:
-Clients suffering from Acute Stress Disorder, PTSD, Complex-PTSD (c-PTSD) or Vicarious Trauma (First Responders)
-Military Members (Active and Retired)
-LGBTQI+ Trauma Therapy
-Survivors of a single-incident traumatic event or series of traumatic events
-Clients who have experienced childhood trauma, including physical, emotional or sexual abuse
-Clients who were betrayed and traumatized and “stuck” because of the experience
-Individuals looking to overcome awful memories
-Professionals who have experienced workplace discrimination
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PTSD – What is it and how is it formally diagnosed?
PTSD is an acronym for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and from the Diagnostic Statistical Manual, 5th Edition (DSM-5) (5th ed.; DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). We now use the DSM-5-TR.
Diagnosis for PTSD is given to clients one month after a traumatic event. Prior diagnosis is called “Acute Stress Disorder: 3 days through one month.)
Per the DSM-5 (p. 274),
“PTSD is the development of characteristic symptoms following exposure to one or more traumatic events…The clinical presentation of PTSD varies. In some individuals, fear-based re-experiencing, emotional, and behavioral symptoms may predominate. In others, anhedonic [(lacking pleasure)] or dysphoric mood [(uneasy or unsatisfied)] states and negative cognitions may be most distressing. In some other individuals, arousal and reactive-externalizing symptoms are prominent, while in others, dissociative symptoms predominate. Finally, some individuals exhibit combinations of these symptoms.” (5th ed.; DSM-5; p, 274; American Psychiatric Association, 2013)
PTSD can be chronic, meaning clients may have experienced repeated exposure to traumatic events, or the result of a single incident (e.g.: a car accident, witnessing a violent event, or surviving a sexual assault).
There are 8 criterion for PTSD: A-H. In order to be formally diagnosed with PTSD one must meet each of the 8 criterion. A is exposure to or witnessing the traumatic event; B is having symptoms that are intrusive (or distressing); C is actively avoiding reminders of the trauma; D represents negative changes to mood or cognition as a result of the trauma; E represents changes in your arousal levels or the way you react in situations as a result of the trauma; F relates to duration of the time since the event; G relates to distress caused in areas of functioning; and, H reminds the clinician to make sure that your symptoms are not caused by another condition or substance/prescription use.
Additionally, it is possible that you may also be experiencing feeling detached from your body or that your surroundings are not real, like living in a fog. If so, this indicates a specifier is added to your diagnosis.
If you are suffering from witnessing or surviving a traumatic event or events, reach out to a PTSD specialist today.
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
EMDR Certified Therapist for PTSD
Treating Clients Complex-PTSD
When clients have experienced multiple traumas, a special approach is required from a therapist who is trained to read cues in your body language, provide safety, and is willing to walk with you, at your pace. Your brain has the capacity to heal because of the power of neuroplasticity. Jordan was not only trained in a graduate clinical social work program that was 100% trauma focused, but he has worked with hundreds of clients who have survived unimaginable traumas.
Jordan works with clients who have experienced all types of trauma from one incident (like a car accident) to multi-incident traumas. Traumatic experiences from adulthood and traumatic experiences from childhood are also treated.
Jordan has gained experience in effectively treating clients with severe and complex reactions to their trauma memories. Using a combination of protocols and interventions, Jordan is able to gently help access the most traumatic memories that, once cleared, start opening up possibilities for clients. This is not straight forward and takes patience, intuition and care.
Clients who may not be able to handle or regulate have sought treatment from Jordan. His first priority is grounding to the present and through this, past clients have demonstrated an increased capacity to handle distressing emotions and feelings and memories.
He has worked with clients who don’t have the capacity to seek safety in their body in inventive and creative ways. From utilizing extensive, genogram trauma treatment planning, to the integration of music and art-based EMDR, to somatic bridges to access implicit memories, ego-state work, metaphor work and even (when appropriate) humor, Jordan is willing to dig into his toolbox of treatment protocols to help you live a better quality of life. Its not uncommon for a client who is highly dissociative to leave a session laughing and more grounded.
But most of all, Jordan has been told time and time again by current and past clients that his patience and willingness to meet trauma survivors where they are, willing to recalibrate when needed, is what has been most helpful in finally experiencing some peace.
Some examples of more complex incidents that past clients have sought treatment for trauma:
- Childhood traumas, including witnessing violence in house
- Incest survivors and witnesses of incest
- Sexual assault
- Institutional abuse survivors: adult survivors of abuse by the “Troubled Teen Industry” (TTI)
- Childhood emotional abuse and neglect
- Survivors of torture: childhood and adult
- Sibling abuse survivors and witnesses
- Domestic violence survivors
- Emotional neglect
- Abandonment: childhood and adult
- Religious trauma, including ritual
- Human trafficking trauma survivors and victims
- Immigration trauma: adult and childhood immigration
- Natural disaster trauma: survivors of Hurricane Andrew, Haiti Earthquake, Surfside Condo Collapse, Hurricane Ian
- Wartime trauma: military members both active and retired
- Wartime trauma: civilian survivors of war
- Medical traumas, including misdiagnosis, newly diagnosed, terminal and chronic diagnoses
- Bullying at home, in school or at work
- Vehicular accidents
- Witnessing death by violence and suicide
- Healthcare trauma: secondary/vicarious trauma
- Betrayal trauma: work and relationship
- Historical and intergenerational trauma
- Long-term survivors of HIV living with survivors guilt
- Survivors guilt: those in recovery from substance abuse
- Ex-incarcerated individuals with repeated prison trauma
- Persons in recovery from severe addiction: processing traumas from when in active addiction
- Work with first generation Americans who experienced discrimination and maltreatment
- Transgender clients processing repeated discrimination, including sexual assault, medical discrimination, family discrimination
- LGBTQI+ individuals: sexual assault
- Little “T” Trauma: displacement due to job loss, loss of family, etc…