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Trauma Therapy

Dr. Bellet’s experience with FEMA, after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, providing relief, debriefing, trauma and grief counseling for city medical examiners, fire fighters, hospital and red cross workers, makes her uniquely attuned to the potency of psychological blows of ongoing stressors we all endure from recent converging events. The Center for Traumatic Stress (CTS) was developed to coalesce and concentrate our existing expertise to enhance outcomes for primary and secondary trauma, suicide struggles, PTSD, acute stress disorder, complicated grief, isolation, depression, anxiety, phobias, and increase of avoidant behaviors. These converging traumatic events will likely exacerbate already existing psychological disorders, such as OCD, PTSD, depression and anxiety. Stressors include:

  • COVID-19 on NYC essential workers

  • COVID-19 homestay on parents and kids who have emotional, cognitive, academic and work struggles

  • COVID-19 economic shutdown leading to extreme financial instability on a personal and community level

  • traumatic stress from witnessing ongoing racism and violence

Clinicians at BHBA are re-engaging in trauma literature, increasing visibility and access to care through psycho-educational seminars for the community and NYC Health and Hospital Systems, increasing facility in ancillary treatments - Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, Hypnosis and Trauma Informed Yoga and movement therapy - as well as increasing group case consultation and treatment dissemination and utilization.