Trauma, PTSD & Neuropsychotherapy

Understanding Trauma & PTSD

Trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are not just about past events—they are about how those experiences continue to affect the brain, body, and relationships. When overwhelming stress occurs, the nervous system can get stuck in survival mode. This often shows up as:

  • Hypervigilance or constant alertness

  • Emotional numbness or shutdown

  • Difficulty trusting or connecting with others

  • Repeated patterns of conflict in relationships

  • Flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, or emotional overwhelm

Trauma and PTSD don’t only affect thoughts—they reshape how the brain processes safety, emotions, and connection. Healing requires more than talking through the past. It requires working with both the mind and the nervous system.

Neuropsychotherapy

At Hello Healed®, Nastasia Freeman, Licensed Psychotherapist, treats trauma and PTSD using neuropsychotherapy—an integrative, brain-based approach that combines neuroscience with psychotherapy to support healing.

With neuropsychotherapy, clients learn to:

  • Calm an overactive nervous system

  • Reprocess painful experiences in a safe and grounded way

  • Replace survival-driven responses with healthier patterns

  • Strengthen trust, safety, and connection in relationships

  • Develop resilience and long-term emotional balance

This approach moves therapy beyond symptom management to support deep, lasting change from the inside out.

Individual Trauma Therapy

In individual sessions, neuropsychotherapy addresses trauma, PTSD, and attachment wounds by working with both the brain and body. This approach goes beyond insight alone to create real neurological change.

Key benefits include:

  • Regulating the nervous system: Moving out of hypervigilance, shutdown, or emotional overwhelm.

  • Processing trauma safely: Revisiting painful memories without retraumatization.

  • Rewiring old patterns: Building new neural pathways for healthier thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

  • Restoring safety and agency: Reclaiming confidence, autonomy, and emotional balance.

This work helps clients not only understand trauma and PTSD but also transform how these experiences are held in the brain and body—creating space for deeper healing and resilience.

Couples Trauma Therapy

When one or both partners have a history of trauma or PTSD, it often appears in the relationship as mistrust, conflict, emotional reactivity, or difficulty feeling safe together. Traditional couples therapy can overlook the underlying neurobiological and attachment-related impact of trauma.

Neuropsychotherapy in couples therapy helps partners:

  • Co-regulate the nervous system: Recognize trauma responses and learn to calm together.

  • Break survival-driven cycles: Understand how past trauma shapes present-day arguments, withdrawal, or avoidance.

  • Rebuild secure attachment: Strengthen trust, empathy, and emotional safety through new neural pathways.

  • Improve emotional communication: Express and respond to emotions with care instead of conflict.

This approach supports couples in moving from reactive patterns to intentional, connected partnership—especially helpful for those navigating PTSD, complex trauma, childhood emotional neglect, or relational betrayal.

Important: Couples trauma therapy is not appropriate when domestic violence is present. If you are experiencing domestic violence, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233) for 24/7 support.

Why This Matters

Trauma and PTSD change the brain—but the brain is capable of change. Neuropsychotherapy brings science and compassion together to support healing that goes beyond symptom management.

Whether in individual or couples therapy, this approach helps clients:

  • Feel safer in their bodies and relationships

  • Build resilience for the future

  • Create lasting patterns of connection, trust, and emotional balance

At Hello Healed®, the goal is not only to explore trauma and PTSD but to transform how these experiences are encoded in the brain and nervous system—allowing clients to move forward with clarity, confidence, and stronger connections.

Note: Nastasia Freeman, Licensed Psychotherapist, has received advanced training in neuropsychotherapy and was awarded the NPT-C designation. At Hello Healed®, she integrates neuropsychotherapy—a brain-based clinical framework that combines neuroscience with psychotherapy to treat trauma, PTSD, and attachment challenges. This approach focuses on how emotional pain is encoded in the brain and nervous system, allowing therapy to support deep healing, regulation, and long-term resilience. To learn more about her licensure and professional certifications, please visit the therapist page.