PTSD Treatment
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Safe, Supportive PTSD Treatment & Therapy
At our PTSD treatment centers, we provide a safe and supportive environment where you can begin to heal. Our programs are designed to help you process trauma, reduce symptoms of PTSD, and regain a sense of calm in your daily life. With personalized care, you’ll learn how to manage triggers and reclaim your emotional well-being.
Alumni surveyed 6-months post-treatment reported significant improvements in symptoms of PTSD
Customized PTSD Treatment for Lasting Recovery
Our approach to PTSD treatment focuses on creating a plan tailored to your specific trauma experience. We address both the immediate symptoms and the deep emotional wounds. By treating these together, we help you process trauma in a healthy way and work toward long-term recovery.
Inpatient PTSD Treatment
About Inpatient PTSD Treatment
Our inpatient PTSD therapy centers provide intensive, daily support in a structured environment. This option is ideal for those who need focused care to start their recovery journey.
Our Inpatient Treatment Centers
Outpatient PTSD Treatment
Outpatient PTSD Therapy Treatment
Receive expert support while continuing with your daily responsibilities, ensuring you stay on track toward recovery. Explore our 8-week intensive outpatient programs for PTSD.
Our Outpatient PTSD Locations
How We Treat PTSD
Brain Center
Our Brain Center uses advanced tools to support brain function, which plays a crucial role in managing complex PTSD. These tools help reduce the impact of trauma on your mind and body, improving your ability to cope with triggers.
Types of Therapy
Each PTSD treatment plan includes various therapies designed to help you manage symptoms, process trauma, and develop healthier coping mechanisms. This approach empowers you to face and overcome the effects of trauma.
Meadows Model
At our PTSD treatment centers, we use the Meadows Model to explore the emotional and psychological patterns that keep trauma from healing. This approach helps you release the pain of trauma and find a path to recovery.
What Sets The Meadows Apart for PTSD Therapy and Treatment?
Not all PTSD treatment programs are the same. At The Meadows, we take a whole-person approach to care, addressing not only the physical effects of trauma but also the emotional and psychological factors driving ongoing PTSD symptoms.
Expertise in PTSD Treatment
With over 45 years of proven success, our PTSD treatment program has a proven track record, having supported more than 20,000 clients and 25,000 workshop participants. Our foundation of clinical excellence was built by Pia Mellody, a pioneer in trauma and recovery, and continues with distinguished Senior Fellows.
Trauma-Focused Care
At The Meadows, we focus on recovery from trauma, including combat stress, accidents, medical events, abuse, and family-of-origin wounds. Many struggling with PTSD have unresolved traumatic experiences, which we address through specialized, evidence-based therapies. Learn about our treatment approach.
Dual Diagnosis Treatment
Comprehensive care for co-occurring conditions common with PTSD, including anxiety, depression, mood instability, dissociation, and substance use disorders too. Our integrated approach treats trauma and addiction together, supporting whole-person recovery. Explore our clinical outcomes.
A very understanding and well-equipped outpatient center that can treat everything that life will throw at us.
Henry
MBH Alumni
Reclaim Your Life from the Effects of Trauma
Take control of your healing journey with our expert support. Reach out to our admissions team today to learn about the right treatment for your needs.
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PTSD Treatment FAQ
What causes PTSD?
PTSD develops after exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence, with risk shaped by factors like prior trauma, injury severity, low social support, and personal or family mental health history.
What are the types of PTSD?
DSM-5-TR recognizes PTSD with possible specifiers such as with dissociative symptoms and with delayed expression, and clinicians often describe acute versus chronic presentations; the ICD-11 also includes complex PTSD (CPTSD), which adds problems with emotion regulation, self-concept, and relationships after prolonged or repeated trauma.
What are the symptoms of PTSD?
PTSD symptoms cluster into intrusion, avoidance, negative changes in thinking and mood, and arousal or reactivity, and they must meaningfully disrupt daily life.
What are the criteria of a PTSD diagnosis?
A PTSD diagnosis criteria requires exposure to a qualifying traumatic event plus a minimum number of symptoms in each cluster, lasting more than one month with significant distress or impairment, as outlined in DSM-5-TR.
What are PTSD triggers?
PTSD triggers are reminders of the trauma, such as places, dates, sensations, or situations that bring on symptoms, including anniversary reactions around significant dates.
What is the best therapy for PTSD?
Current guidelines recommend individual trauma-focused psychotherapy such as PTSD counseling, Prolonged Exposure, Cognitive Processing Therapy, or EMDR as first-line care.
How to treat PTSD?
The most effective plans pair trauma-focused PTSD therapy with medications when appropriate, typically starting with SSRIs or SNRIs, tailored to your goals and needs. At The Meadows, we offer expert-led PTSD counseling and medication management.