SPECIALIZED TRAUMA THERAPY

Therapy for the Parts of Your Story That Still Hurt

Specialized Christian trauma therapy for women healing from abuse, painful relationships, sexual trauma, PTSD, and the lasting effects of survival mode.

Online throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin & Florida

Whitney McElhone, trauma therapist and owner of Becoming You Therapy

YOU CAN START WHERE YOU ARE

You Don’t Have to Have the Right Words Yet

Maybe you know exactly what you’ve experienced. Maybe you’re still trying to understand why you feel anxious, disconnected, exhausted, stuck in unhealthy relationships, or unable to trust yourself.

You don’t need a diagnosis or even a clear explanation of what happened before reaching out. Therapy can begin with what you’re experiencing right now.

AREAS OF HEALING

Find Support for What You’re Facing

Trauma can show up differently in every woman’s life. Explore the areas below to learn more about the kind of support that may fit what you’re experiencing.

Narcissistic Abuse & Trauma Bonds

When you know a relationship is hurting you but leaving, staying away, or trusting yourself again feels harder than it should.

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Domestic Violence & Coercive Control

Support for healing from fear, control, manipulation, emotional abuse, and the lasting effects of relationships that made you feel unsafe or powerless.

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Sexual Assault & Sexual Trauma

A safe, trauma-informed space to process what happened, rebuild a sense of safety, and reconnect with yourself at a pace that honors your readiness.

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PTSD & Complex Trauma

Support for triggers, anxiety, hypervigilance, emotional shutdown, and survival responses that can continue long after the danger has passed.

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Relationship & Attachment Wounds

Understand the patterns behind people-pleasing, fear of abandonment, difficulty trusting, and relationships that leave you questioning your worth.

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Christian Trauma Therapy

Trauma-informed therapy that integrates Christian faith, helping you heal emotionally while reconnecting with your identity, values, and relationship with God.

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Whitney McElhone, trauma therapist at Becoming You Therapy, working on her laptop

INDIVIDUAL TRAUMA THERAPY

Therapy With Direction, Not Just Another Place to Talk

Individual trauma therapy is personalized around your story, your goals, and what you want life to feel like beyond survival mode.

We won’t rush your healing or pressure you to share things before you’re ready. But we also won’t lose sight of why you came to therapy in the first place.

Therapy should have a purpose.

Together, we’ll identify what you want to change, create an individualized treatment plan, and regularly evaluate your progress so our work continues to feel meaningful and connected to the life you’re trying to build.

WHAT HEALING CAN LOOK LIKE

Healing Is About More Than Talking About What Happened

It’s about changing what happens next.

SECOND-GUESSING YOURSELF

Trusting yourself again

LIVING IN SURVIVAL MODE

Feeling safer in your own life

PEOPLE-PLEASING

Setting boundaries without overwhelming guilt

REPEATING PAINFUL RELATIONSHIPS

Recognizing healthier connection

CARRYING SHAME

Understanding your story with compassion

FEELING DISCONNECTED FROM WHO YOU ARE

Reconnecting with your identity and faith

WHAT HEALING CAN LOOK LIKE

Healing Is About More Than Talking About What Happened

Trauma affects more than your thoughts. It can shape your emotions, nervous system, relationships, sense of safety, identity, and faith. Therapy considers the whole picture rather than treating one symptom in isolation.

Understand

Make sense of your trauma responses, emotions, relationship patterns, and the ways your nervous system learned to protect you.

Process

Work through painful experiences safely and intentionally, without being pushed beyond what you’re ready to address.

Rebuild

Strengthen boundaries, self-trust, relationships, identity, and the skills that help you move forward beyond therapy.

Treatment may incorporate trauma-informed approaches including EMDR-informed work, CBT, DBT skills, mindfulness, nervous-system regulation, and solution-focused interventions based on your individual needs.

FOR COUPLES

Healing Is About More Than Talking About What Happened

Trauma doesn’t always stay contained within one person’s experience. It can affect communication, trust, emotional safety, intimacy, conflict, and the ways partners respond to one another.

Trauma-informed couples therapy creates space to understand what’s happening beneath the conflict while building healthier communication, connection, and partnership.

Couple connecting during a quiet moment, representing trauma-informed couples therapy

FAITH & HEALING

Clinical Trauma Care Grounded in Christian Faith

Your faith doesn’t have to be separated from your healing. At Becoming You Therapy, Christian faith can be thoughtfully integrated with evidence-based, trauma-informed care so there is room to address both the emotional impact of what you’ve experienced and the questions it may have raised about identity, relationships, forgiveness, boundaries, purpose, and God.

Faith-based therapy isn’t about being told to pray harder, forgive faster, or ignore the impact of trauma. It’s about creating space for clinical healing while allowing biblical truth, your relationship with God, and your identity in Christ to be meaningful parts of the process.

THERAPY WITH PURPOSE

Intentional Therapy, Centered Around Your Goals

Therapy is an investment of your time, energy, trust, and finances. Our work should remain connected to what brought you here and what you want to change.

Throughout therapy, we’ll revisit your goals, talk openly about your progress, and adjust the direction or frequency of sessions as your needs change. The goal isn’t to keep you in therapy indefinitely. It’s to help you develop the insight, skills, safety, and confidence you can carry into life beyond therapy.

You Don’t Have to Figure This Out Alone.

If you’re ready to begin understanding what you’ve been through and start moving toward something different, a consultation is a simple place to begin.