Trauma-Informed Care
At Peachtree Wellness Solutions, we believe that many mental health disorders have their roots in traumatic experiences.
Trauma is not just an event that happened in the past—it’s an experience that continues to shape how individuals navigate their daily lives, relationships, and mental wellness journey.
We understand that conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other mental health challenges often stem from unresolved trauma.
Our trauma-informed approach ensures that every aspect of your care is designed with this understanding at its core, creating an environment where true healing can begin.
If your or a loved one are struggling, we can help. Learn more about our mental health programs or call us now at 770-202-1274
What Is Trauma-Informed Care?
Trauma-informed care is a comprehensive approach to treatment that acknowledges the widespread impact of trauma and integrates this knowledge into all aspects of service delivery.
Rather than asking “What’s wrong with you?” trauma-informed care asks “What happened to you?”
This fundamental shift in perspective recognizes that many behaviors and mental health symptoms are adaptive responses to traumatic experiences.
This approach is built on six core principles: safety, trustworthiness and transparency, peer support, collaboration and mutuality, empowerment and choice, and cultural humility. These principles guide every interaction, policy, and treatment decision, ensuring that care is delivered in a way that promotes healing rather than re-traumatization.
Trauma-informed care recognizes that trauma can be physical, emotional, sexual, or psychological, and can result from single incidents or ongoing experiences.
It understands that trauma affects people across all demographics and can manifest in various ways, including addiction, mental health disorders, physical health problems, and difficulties in relationships and daily functioning.
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A Shift From Traditional Mental Health Treatment Methods - Six Core Principles
These six principles form the backbone of trauma-informed care, representing a fundamental shift from traditional treatment models.
Developed through extensive research and the voices of trauma survivors themselves, these principles create a framework that recognizes trauma’s widespread impact while fostering resilience and recovery.
Each principle works in harmony with the others to create an environment where healing is not only possible but actively supported.
Safety
This means creating physical and emotional safety for both clients and staff. Physical safety involves ensuring that treatment environments are secure, comfortable, and free from harm. Emotional safety means fostering an atmosphere where individuals feel protected from judgment, criticism, or re-traumatization.
Trustworthiness & Transparency
With the goal of building and maintaining trust among clients, staff, and the broader community, we operate with clear communication about policies, procedures, and treatment approaches.
Clients are kept informed about their treatment process, and staff operate with integrity and consistency in all interactions.
Peer Support
Individuals with lived experience of trauma and recovery can offer unique support and hope to others on similar journeys. Peer support is integrated throughout our programs, not just in formal peer support roles, but in the understanding that mutual self-help is a key component of trauma recovery and wellness.
Collaboration & Mutuality
Healing happens in relationship and community, and meaningful sharing of power and decision-making occurs throughout our programs. The expertise of lived experience is valued equally alongside professional knowledge.
Empowerment & Choice
At Peachtree Wellness, we emphasize the importance of client choice, strength-based approaches, and skill-building.
The focus is on what clients can do rather than what they cannot do. Individual healing is supported through empowerment and the development of personal agency, recognizing that trauma often involves the loss of power and control.
Cultural Humility
We don’t prescribe to cultural stereotypes and biases. Our programs leverage the healing value of traditional cultural connections, and incorporates policies and procedures that are responsive to the cultural needs of the individuals served. We believe healing occurs within cultural context and that trauma can be rooted in cultural and historical experiences.
Why Does Trauma-Informed Care Matter?
The connection between trauma and mental health disorders is profound and well-documented. Research consistently shows that individuals with depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder, and other mental health conditions have significantly higher rates of trauma exposure compared to the general population.
For many, mental health symptoms develop as the mind’s attempt to cope with overwhelming emotions, memories, and physical sensations associated with traumatic experiences.
Traditional treatment approaches that don’t address underlying trauma often fall short because they treat symptoms without addressing root causes.
Trauma-informed care matters because it provides a pathway to address these underlying issues, creating a more solid foundation for lasting mental wellness.
In addition, the treatment environment itself can be triggering for trauma survivors. Medical settings, authority figures, loss of control, and clinical procedures can all activate trauma responses.
A trauma-informed approach ensures that the healing environment doesn’t inadvertently cause harm, but instead becomes a place of safety and empowerment.
How We Implement Trauma-Informed Care at Peachtree Wellness Solutions
At Peachtree Wellness Solutions, trauma-informed care isn’t an add-on service—it’s woven into the fabric of everything we do.
From the moment you walk through our doors, you’ll experience an environment designed with trauma survivors in mind.
Our intake process is gentle and collaborative, allowing you to share your story at your own pace while ensuring we gather the information needed to provide the best possible care.
Our clinical team receives ongoing training in trauma-informed approaches and evidence-based trauma treatments.
We utilize a range of therapeutic modalities specifically designed to address trauma, including cognitive processing therapy, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), somatic approaches, and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy. These interventions are integrated seamlessly into our addiction treatment programs.
We’ve redesigned our physical spaces to promote feelings of safety and calm. Natural lighting, comfortable seating areas, clear sight lines, and quiet spaces for reflection all contribute to an environment where healing can occur. Our staff understand the importance of choice and control in the healing process, so we provide multiple options for treatment approaches, schedules, and participation levels.
Our group programming incorporates trauma-informed principles, creating safe spaces for shared experiences while respecting individual boundaries and triggers. We offer specialized trauma-focused groups alongside our traditional mental health treatment groups, recognizing that healing happens in community.
Perhaps most importantly, we view you as the expert on your own experience. Our role is to provide support, resources, and evidence-based interventions while you maintain control over your healing journey. This collaborative approach helps rebuild the sense of empowerment that trauma often damages.
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Your journey toward healing deserves care that understands and honors your experience.
At Peachtree Wellness Solutions, we’re ready to provide the trauma-informed, compassionate care that can help you reclaim your life and build lasting recovery.
Don’t let past trauma continue to dictate your future. Our experienced team is here to help you process your experiences, develop healthy coping strategies, and create the mental wellness you deserve. Recovery is possible, and healing can happen in an environment designed with your safety and empowerment in mind.
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