We provide counseling for symptoms of PTSD that include the following evidence-based treatments.

• Prolonged Exposure (PE): This teaches you to gradually approach trauma-related memories, feelings, and situations that you have been avoiding since your trauma. By confronting these challenges, you can actually decrease your PTSD symptoms.
• Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): This teaches you how to evaluate and change the upsetting thoughts you have had since your trauma. By changing your thoughts, you can change how you feel.
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): This helps people learn how to identify and change the destructive or disturbing thought patterns that have a negative influence on their behavior and emotions.

We currently have a PTSD group that meets every Thursday in Benton Harbor, Michigan.  If you are interested, please contact the South Bend Vet Center at 574-231-8480.