PTSD Exposure Therapy
If you’ve been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or another anxiety disorder, we can help. At Kentuckiana Treatment Center for Anxiety & OCD, we help you understand your anxiety disorder. Even better, we teach you evidence-based tools that dismantle and disrupt the symptoms, putting you back in control. Even if you’ve tried therapy before and it failed, try again. Most patients will be significantly and measurably better within just 16 sessions. Contact us at (270) 238-3566. We serve clients in Kentucky and Indiana.
What PTSD Looks Like
In the past, post-traumatic stress disorder was thought to result only from an extremely dangerous event that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury to oneself or someone else. However, recent research has begun to challenge that idea. Some newer studies seem to show that PTSD can result from even hearing about such events and suggest that psychological trauma can sometimes be the consequence of less extraordinary experiences. If this is true, the question isn’t so much, “Was that traumatizing?” because many kinds of experiences can be. The question is, “Was I traumatized?”
This raises the question: What exactly is PTSD? We could say that PTSD is comprised of four parts:
- The experience of a dangerous and distressing event.
- The ongoing, intrusive, vivid, and highly anxiety-producing memory of that event.
- An associated, heightened awareness of present surroundings.
- Pervasive avoidance patterns aimed at both minimizing the vivid and anxiety-producing memory of the dangerous event and at keeping oneself safe from repeated danger.
Therapy for PTSD
While the world is sometimes a dangerous and painful place, there’s effective treatment for the psychological wounds that can result from traumatic experiences. At Kentuckiana Treatment Center for Anxiety & OCD, we use prolonged & repetitive exposure work, the most validated and proven treatment available for PTSD. Within that work, the important step in how we treat is to stop the avoidance behavior patterns by doing the exposure work and processing the traumatic event.
Reclaim Peace of Mind Today
Find relief from trauma and start your journey to healing.
What We Treat
In addition to PTSD, we successfully treat the following diagnoses.
For more information about Kentuckiana, see our Who We Are page. And be sure to listen to our OCD Straight Talk podcast for the anxiety disorders community.
Why Choose Us
We get results — even for patients who’ve been in treatment for years.
We use evidence-based ERP treatment; most other therapists use talk therapy.
We teach you how to stop rumination, problematic behavior, and compulsion.
Our patients get better faster and usually stay better.
Professional PTSD Therapy
Trauma may be part of your story, but at Kentuckiana Treatment Center for Anxiety & OCD, we’re here to help. Let’s put traumatic memories in the past and together turn to the hope of the future. Contact us at (270) 238-3566. We serve clients in Kentucky and Indiana.