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Christian Counselling for Trauma and Narcissistic Abuse | Tracey Nguyen, RN, MN, Psychotherapist
When trauma healing meets a Christ-centred framework, it's complete.
Christian counselling for trauma and narcissistic abuse, with a nurse psychotherapist walking her own faith. Online across Ontario. Secular clients are welcome too.
WHEN WE REACH THE END OF OURSELVES
Christian counselling is the most aligned way that I work. When we work with a trauma-informed approach within a Christ-centred framework, it really completes the healing process. Even Carl Jung talks about this: when we reach the end of ourselves and push the limits of our psychology, our minds, there's something beyond our minds and bodies that we lack connection with.
There's a lot of limitation in being human, in what we can handle and do on our own. We are powerful, but God is more powerful. His power and His sovereignty in working through things are way greater than our control. It's about Him taking the wheel.
Whether we're Christian or not, spiritual or not, authenticity and being deeply connected to ourselves is the intersection of secular work and Christian counselling. But when we blend trauma work and Christianity, it's complete.
A WALK OF FAITH THROUGH THE SHADOWS
Healing trauma becomes a dismantling of falsity. It becomes a shedding, a surrendering process, a walk of faith through the shadows, holding on to the light and the presence of God through it. It's so much more gracious. I don't think I could have endured this much trauma healing, loss, grief and pain without God.
LEANING ON THE TRUE AUTHORITY, NOT A TRAUMATIZED ONE
Healing narcissism, people-pleasing and caretaking is especially powerful with Christian counselling. Narcissism is about the self. The antidote to healing the self, and the shame and defenses that keep that self alive, is dying to the self in Christ: surrendering our toxic shame and knowing our worthiness and our innate being in Him.
When we have a relationship with Christ, we know we don't have to put a narcissist on a pedestal. We don't have to idolize an unsafe authority figure. It's about leaning on the true authority instead of being controlled by a traumatized authority, and having faith and finding safety in that.
FAITH WITHOUT TRAUMA HEALING IS ALSO INCOMPLETE
When we work with scripture or our relationship with God alone, we can miss the blind spots that trauma projects onto our relationships. If we grew up with a scary, narcissistic authority figure, we might project that onto the fear of God. Are we supposed to be anxious of God? No. Fear of God is really a reverence for how powerful He is, and for His grace.
When we're trying to be good Christians, does that mean taking abuse from our husbands because that's what a good Christian wife does? We don't want to confuse broken boundaries and tolerating abuse with submission.
MIND, BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT
We are mind, body, soul and spirit, and we can't leave any part of ourselves out. A trauma-informed approach within a Christian framework is so complete, especially with somatic work, in an embodied relational approach.
HOW I CAN HELP
• Narcissistic abuse and codependency
• Grief and loss
• Complex trauma (CPTSD) and BPD
• Chronic stress, depression and the body
• Healing narcissistic traits
Your true identity in Christ is done and waiting. We're just walking through the process to get there.
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My Christian Faith and My Professional Practice
I WAS RELIANT ON MYSELF FOR HEALING. IT TOOK FOREVER.
When we heal trauma, our fragmented, disconnected selves, it's so dark. When we're reliant on ourselves for healing, which I was, it takes forever, because we don't have a relationship so much more powerful than us to have faith in.
But when we surrender our greatest trauma bonds, attachments and pains, when we submit and surrender to our Creator and let Christ mold us and reveal us into the character we're becoming, into our true identity in relationship with Him, the truth hits deep. It makes sense.
When we're desperate and suffering, on our knees in pain, life is very hard. But when we know this is for a bigger, deeper spiritual purpose, we go through the healing with a level of certainty. There is beauty in that.
IT'S ALREADY DONE. WE'RE JUST SHOWING UP FOR IT.
So much of life is uncertain, out of our control and unpredictable. But when we have faith in what Christ does for us and what He promises us, and our relationship with Him becomes the ultimate model where we can heal all other relationships, it is very grounding.
Imagine knowing that it's already done, and we're just showing up to do it. We do the work, but we surrender, knowing that He has us and He provides for us. We're not in survival mode anymore.
This is ongoing work I'm walking through too, as a therapist walking her faith toward more of herself in Christ.
Client Payment Information
- Accepts insurance
- Client rates are on a sliding scale
