Groups and workshops
Workshops are paid in full at booking, are refundable up to 7 days before, and can be transferred to another person or date up to 48 hours before. Group programs are paid in full upfront and are closed after the first session. You can transfer to a future group before the first session, but fees are non-refundable once it starts. If you've attended a matching workshop in the previous 90 days, you'll receive a $75 credit off the group. If a group or workshop doesn't reach minimum numbers, we'll offer you a credit or a full refund.
Something happened. Maybe it was one moment you can point to. Maybe it was years of things that never felt big enough to count. Either way, you thought you'd moved on, and for a while you did.
Then something small sets it off: a smell, a raised voice, a song playing in a shop. Suddenly your heart is pounding and you're back there, even though you know you're safe. Sleep is patchy and the dreams can be worse. You sit with your back to the wall in cafés without really knowing why. You jump at sudden noises. You're short with the people you love, then feel guilty about it.
Some days you might feel nothing at all, which is its own kind of hard. Perhaps you’re avoiding certain places, conversations or people, and your world gets a little smaller each time.
Somewhere along the way you might have started believing it was your fault, or that you should be over it by now.
People say time heals. But sometimes it doesn't, not on its own.
Trauma isn't a sign of weakness, and it isn't about how "bad" the event was compared to someone else's. It's what happens when something overwhelms your ability to cope, and your brain and body keep trying to protect you long after the danger has passed. With the right support, that can change.
Psychology & more
How Unburden can help
Trauma lives in the body as much as in your memory. That's why talking about it isn't always enough on its own, and why at Unburden we’ve designed a ‘Psychology & More’ approach that looks at body and mind together.
Individual Therapy
Most people start with individual therapy. Every psychologist at Unburden is trained to treat trauma, and our whole team, from our Client Experience Officers to our health practitioners, is trauma-informed. Whoever you see here, you’ll be understood.
You won't be pushed to tell your whole story before you're ready. Our therapists are highly qualified and able to select from a range of trauma-specific therapies to find the one that works best for you, at a pace that feels safe. We aim to make this both a practical and insightful experience, so that the past stops running your present.
A whole-person approach
Support for your body as well as your mind
With trauma, we also recommend considering approaches that work in different ways. These can be done when you have time, and while you are doing other therapies.
Acupuncture can help your body feel calmer and more settled. Research suggests that combining it with trauma-focused psychology can make it easier to cope as you start working through your past.
Trauma can also be held in the body. Your muscles may have ‘learnt’ to feel unsafe, and that can show up as anything from stiffness to chronic pain, certain movements that set you off, or just not feeling comfortable in your own skin. Acupuncture can help release some of that tension. Trauma-sensitive yoga with a specialist teacher, one-on-one or in very small groups, gently helps your body learn what safe feels like again.
When you’ve lived through trauma, your body can get stuck in fight-or-flight, even on ordinary days. Slow, structured breathing is one of the quickest ways to signal to your nervous system that you’re safe. Your therapist can teach you simple techniques in session, and our breathing workshops give you time to practise in a calm, supportive group, so it becomes something you can use whenever you need it.
Your gut and brain are in constant conversation. When your body has spent a long time on high alert, digestion often takes the hit, which is why tummy troubles, bloating, food sensitivities and IBS-type symptoms are common after trauma. Our gut-health dietitian takes a practical, realistic look at what you’re eating and how your gut is coping, and helps you make changes that support your mood and energy as well as your digestion.
Living with trauma can wear the body down over time, affecting sleep, energy, hormones and how you handle stress. Our clinical naturopath looks at the whole picture, using gut-health and hormone testing where it’s useful, and builds a treatment plan to help your body recover alongside your psychological work. That can include nutritional and herbal support for sleep and stress, always coordinated with your therapist so everything works together.
Connecting with others who understand can also help, and our group therapy programs and workshops are a gentle way to do that when you're ready.
Finding the right mix for you
You're welcome to put together your own holistic program, or speak to the Client Experience Officers or your therapist about what might work best for you.
If you'd like more information for some self-help therapy, we invite you to read through our library of blogs, or consider books our team has recommended.
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Read at your own pace
Interesting information on trauma from our library
Books we recommend
Explains how trauma gets stored in the body and nervous system, not just in memory, and why body-based approaches can help. Our team reads it too. It does describe some traumatic experiences in detail and is quite long and detailed, so you might prefer to take it in small doses, or try the audiobook.
The Body Keeps the Score
by Dr Bessel van der Kolk
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Written as a conversation, it shifts the question from "what's wrong with you?" to "what happened to you?". Easy to read and very compassionate.
What Happened to You? by Dr Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey
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Written by the developer of EMDR, a therapy designed specifically for trauma. Practical self-help exercises to understand why the past still affects you, and how to start changing that.
Getting Past Your Past by Dr Francine Shapiro
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Ready when you are
You don't have to keep carrying this on your own. Request an appointment at our Graceville or Rocklea clinics. If you're not sure where to start, give us a call. Our Client Experience Officers are more than simply receptionists, they are specially trained to help work out the best starting point for you, whether that's choosing a therapist, or considering a few of our services. You won't need to explain what happened, just that you'd like some support.
If you are in crisis or feel unsafe right now, please call 000, or Lifeline on 13 11 14
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Find us in Graceville: Level 1, 296 Oxley Road, Graceville, QLD 4075
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