Parent & Family  Counseling

Blossom works with parents and other immediate family members to promote safety, communication, trust, healing, and emotional wellness following a traumatic event. Parent and family counseling helps parents, caregivers, and/or siblings understand the impact of the child’s trauma on them as a family member, resolve symptoms of grief related to the child’s trauma, understand and navigate changes within the family dynamics, rebuild healthy boundaries & relationships, and help the family better support the child through the healing process.


Secondary trauma (indirect exposure) is commonly seen among parents and siblings of victimized/traumatized children. Parents often struggle with understanding how their child may be impacted by the trauma and find it challenging to help their child cope. This can put parents’ own self-care and coping at a disadvantage. In response, siblings may experience a multitude of adverse effects related to the trauma itself and to parental effects thereafter.


Some symptoms of secondary trauma can include:
• Denial
• Guilt
• Blame
• Anger
• Ambivalence
• Anxiety
• Fear
• Confusion
• Numbness
• Sadness
• Helplessness
• Withdrawal or avoidance
• Sleep disturbance
• Changes in appetite
• Hyper-vigilance
• Minimization of the trauma
• Fixation over the traumatic event 

Blossom understands secondary trauma and is here to help.