Trauma Therapy & Treatment That Helps You Take Back Your Life
Leading the way in trauma treatment across New England
Unresolved trauma has a way of slipping into your day-to-day life. Your body reacts before your mind can catch up. A sudden jolt of tension, shift in mood, or sense of disconnect makes it hard to engage. You might be outwardly functioning, but inside it feels as if you are carrying too much.
When Trauma Hits Without Warning
Your chest tightens.
Your mind jumps to a place you didn’t choose.
You feel yourself pull back even when trying to stay present.
Your chest tightens. Your mind jumps to a place you didn't choose. You feel yourself pull back even when trying to stay present.
These reactions can take over fast. At True North Healing Center, we understand how quickly they build and how draining they can be. You do not have to minimize what you’ve been carrying. Your responses make sense given what you’ve lived through. We look at the patterns, the physical shifts, and the moments that push your system into survival mode so that we can begin slowing things down together.
Find Your Bearings Again
Trauma can pull you off course, fast. As treatment starts to take hold, your system begins to settle, and you feel better able to stay present instead of getting swept away by old reactions.
Stability in Your Body
Less Time in Survival Mode
Control Over Reactions
Feel Like Yourself Again
Therapy to Process Your Trauma
Our services target the reactions, patterns, and internal shifts that keep your body on high alert. Each service type is designed to help you work through the disruptions your trauma has been generating beneath the surface.
EMDR + EMDR Intensives
Often, trauma stays stuck in the body. EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) helps you process the memories, images, and sensations that keep looping in your mind so that you can respond with more clarity instead of bracing for impact. For deeper or more complex trauma, EMDR-intensive sessions provide extended time for you to stay with the work, allowing you to move through a process for which weekly sessions may not be enough.
Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy helps you work with reactions, inner conflicts, and emotional patterns that often form through trauma. By gently engaging these patterns rather than overriding them, therapy supports greater clarity and steadiness, so responses feel less driven by past experiences and more intentional in the present.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Some trauma sits so deep that traditional approaches can’t reach it alone. Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) creates a space where the usual filters loosen, allowing deeper and longer-held emotions to come forward. The medicine opens the door while therapy helps you make sense of what emerges. We guide each step with preparation and integration so the experience becomes meaningful, grounded work.
Walk-and-Talk Therapy
There is something different about being outdoors. Walking can loosen what stays locked up inside. The rhythm of your steps, the open air, and the space around you often make it easier for thoughts to surface and tension to ease. These sessions offer a grounded, natural setting to explore what’s been weighing on you while your therapist walks beside you, helping you move through what comes up both physically and emotionally.
Veterans and First Responders
Years of service shift how you operate. The long hours, difficult calls, and repeated exposure to high-intensity situations leave an imprint that deepens over time. You might find yourself scanning your environment without meaning to, pulling back from people you care about, or reacting to things that never used to hit so hard. We understand how these patterns form and how isolating they can become. Our work focuses on helping you process what you’ve carried while rebuilding the ability to stay present in the moments that matter.
End-of-Life Doula Services
The final stage of life brings a weight that reaches far beyond medical decisions. We support individuals and families through the practical steps, emotional conversations, and spiritual needs that arise, including planning, coordinating care, and helping loved ones prepare while respecting the wishes and values of the person nearing death. We walk alongside you through the process, offering steady guidance, clarity, and support when it is needed most.
About True North healing Center
New England’s Most Innovative Trauma-Treatment Facility
True North Healing Center was built for people whose nervous systems have been shaped by trauma in ways that affect daily life. Many of the individuals who come to us are dealing with reactions that take over fast, patterns they can’t break, or a weight they’ve been carrying for years. Our work is focused, trauma-specialized, and grounded in what your system needs in order to move through what it has been avoiding.
We work with those from all backgrounds, including veterans and first responders, and offer EMDR, intensive trauma work, IFS therapy, KAP, walk-and-talk therapy, and end-of-life doula services. This is a place where your reactions make sense, and where you can begin the work with steadiness and support.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who do you work with?
We work with adults, teens, and kids across New Hampshire and Maine, including veterans and first responders. Many people who come to us are navigating trauma, PTSD, chronic stress, or reactions that have become hard to manage on their own.
Do you offer in-person or virtual sessions?
Both. We offer in-person sessions in Manchester and Bedford, NH.
Our virtual appointments are available for clients anywhere in New Hampshire and Maine.
Do you take insurance?
We accept BCBS NH, Anthem, Cigna, Harvard Pilgrim, Optum, United, UMR, HPI, VA Community Care, Aetna, and Wellpoint.
Insurance is not accepted for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy or end-of-life doula services.
What are your session rates?
Intake sessions are $200. Ongoing sessions are $155.
What is ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP)?
KAP is used when someone has already been in therapy and feels stalled. It combines a carefully guided ketamine session with preparation and integration work to access thoughts that can be difficult to reach through talk therapy alone. The medicine creates a temporary shift in perspective, and follow-up therapy focuses on understanding what emerged.
What is an End of Life Doula?
An end-of-life doula provides non-medical support to individuals and families during the final stage of life. This includes helping navigate practical decisions, facilitating difficult conversations, supporting emotional and spiritual needs, and advocating for the wishes of the person who is dying. The role is to walk alongside the process, offering clarity and steadiness during a time that can feel overwhelming.
Relief Begins Here
When trauma keeps pulling you into reactions you didn’t choose, therapy creates space to understand what you’ve been holding. With the right work, the grip these patterns have on your body can begin to ease, and relief becomes something you can actually reach.