Healing and Hope by Manny Garibay
Trauma
Compassionate support for healing and reconnection
What you’re carrying—the memories, the reactions, the sense of being haunted by something you can’t quite shake—is a heavy weight to bear alone. It is beyond something that had an impact on us, but something that has had a lasting and pervasive effect on our lives.
These days, the word trauma is used often, and for good reason. Life leaves marks. While many painful experiences create anxiety or stress, trauma takes things a step further. It lingers. It rewires how we relate to the world, to others, and ourselves.
Trauma can look like: reliving specific memories or conversations out of nowhere, feeling trapped in fight, flight, or freeze responses, struggling to trust or connect in relationships, finding it hard to work, rest, or function day to day.
Trauma is not just what happened to you—it’s what happened inside you as a result. The experience and what your mind, or deeper self, made of it, so you could keep living. Even with a limp or psychic crutch. And often, the most heartbreaking part is that the very thing you need most—connection—feels most challenging to reach.
The Work of Healing
In trauma therapy, we create a safe, relational space to approach what’s been too overwhelming to face alone gently. It’s not about pushing through or fixing you—it’s about working together to process the pain, to reclaim your sense of self, and to build new ways of relating to the world around you.
My role is to hold steady, to listen deeply, and to be a companion in the dark corners you’ve been navigating alone. This work makes it possible to move from mere survival toward a greater sense of wholeness and vitality. Not just coping—but living again, connected to yourself and others.