Compassionate, Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy

Trauma can shape how we experience ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us — often in ways that feel confusing or overwhelming. If you’re seeking trauma therapy in Hawaii or online, Growth Psych offers thoughtful, trauma-informed psychotherapy designed to support healing at your own pace.

This work is grounded in evidence-based psychological care and guided by respect for your lived experience.

What Is Trauma-Informed Therapy?

Trauma-informed therapy recognizes that distressing or overwhelming experiences can have lasting emotional and physiological effects — even long after the event has passed.

Rather than focusing only on symptoms, trauma-informed psychotherapy emphasizes:

• Safety and emotional stabilization

• Understanding how trauma affects your relationships

• Building resilience, self-compassion, and agency

• Moving at a pace that feels manageable and collaborative

This approach avoids re-traumatization and centers your sense of control throughout the therapeutic process.

Who Trauma Therapy Can Support

Trauma therapy may be helpful if you are experiencing:

• Persistent anxiety, fear, or hypervigilance

• Emotional numbness or feeling disconnected

• Difficulty trusting others or maintaining relationships

• Lingering effects of childhood trauma or relational wounds

• Stress responses related to past medical, spiritual, or professional experiences

Approach to Trauma Therapy

At Growth Psych, trauma therapy is:

• Collaborative — therapy goals are shaped together

• Evidence-based — grounded in psychological science

• Respectful — honoring your values, identity, and beliefs

• Integrated — addressing emotional and relational patterns

I focus on helping you build greater emotional regulation, insight, and stability — not on forcing disclosure or reliving painful experiences before you are ready.

Online Trauma Therapy in Hawaii

Growth Psych offers secure telehealth trauma therapy for adults across Hawaii. Online therapy can provide:

• Greater accessibility and flexibility

• A sense of safety and control in your own environment

• Consistent, confidential support

All services are provided in accordance with professional and ethical standards.

About your therapist

Dr. Kristen Davis Eliason, PhD, has years of experience working with patients who have experienced significant and complex childhood and adult traumas. Treatment will help you approach areas of pain and anxiety that are too terrifying to approach on your own so that you can control the trauma memory instead of it controlling you.