Trauma & PTSD Therapy Singapore

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR is recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for PTSD, and it’s one of the most well-researched trauma therapies available. Unlike talk therapies, it doesn’t require you to describe your trauma in detail.

Instead, it uses rhythmic bilateral stimulation (eye movements, auditory tones, or gentle taps) to help the brain reprocess traumatic memories. In sessions with an EMDR-certified TYHO therapist, you hold a distressing memory in mind while engaging in this stimulation. The memory’s emotional charge reduces over time. What once felt immediate and threatening starts to settle into the past, where it belongs.

EMDR then works to strengthen positive beliefs about yourself to replace the ones trauma created. It’s well-suited to single-incident trauma like accidents, assaults, and sudden loss, but clinicians now use it for complex and developmental trauma too. Many clients make meaningful progress faster than they expected.

Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT, also known as trauma-focused therapy)

TF-CBT helps trauma survivors spot the unhelpful beliefs trauma creates, thoughts like “I deserved this” or “I’ll never feel safe again”, and replace them with more accurate ones. It is evidence-backed, and widely used for children and adolescents. It is also increasingly adapted for adults working through childhood trauma.

TYHO’s TF-CBT therapists move through three phases: building coping skills first, gradually processing the traumatic experience, then consolidating what’s been learned. For younger clients, caregivers are brought in through parallel sessions. Parents and guardians learn to understand the child’s experience, manage their own distress, and offer better support at home.

For adults, TF-CBT follows the same arc. While there is no caregiver component, the focus is the same: reframing what trauma taught you about yourself, and building the tools to handle what comes next.

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

CPT is a structured 12-session therapy built specifically for PTSD. It targets what clinicians call “stuck points”: the beliefs trauma locks in place. Thoughts like “It was my fault,” “I can’t trust anyone,” or “The world isn’t safe.” CPT helps you examine those beliefs, test the evidence behind them, and arrive at something more accurate.

You don’t need to recount the trauma in detail. The work focuses on the meaning you’ve made of what happened, because that meaning is often where the real damage sits. Shifting it reduces avoidance, hypervigilance, and emotional numbing. TYHO’s CPT-trained therapists guide this across all 12 sessions in a clear, structured way.

Brainspotting

Brainspotting works on a straightforward premise: where you look affects how you feel. Developed by David Grand in 2003, it identifies specific eye positions called “brainspots” that correspond to areas of stored trauma in the brain and body.

Some trauma doesn’t have words. It lives in the body, surfaces in ways that are hard to explain, and tends to resist approaches built around language. Brainspotting is thought to reach subcortical brain regions, the parts that control survival responses but can’t be accessed through talk or conscious thought alone. Your Trauma Therapist finds the eye position, holds the focus (often with bilateral sound), and lets the brain do the processing.

Brainspotting is used for early childhood experiences, body-held trauma, and trauma that’s stayed stuck despite previous mental health counselling. TYHO has brainspotting-trained Trauma Therapists available online and in-person.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT takes a different route to recovery. Rather than working to eliminate distressing thoughts and feelings, it helps you change how you relate to them so they no longer run your life.

The approach builds what psychologists call psychological flexibility: the ability to act on your values even when difficult emotions are present. For trauma survivors, this often starts with avoidance. Avoidance feels protective, and in the short term it is, but it tends to shrink the life around it over time. ACT helps you expand that life again, gradually, without requiring the pain to disappear first.

It works well on its own and pairs well with EMDR or CPT. TYHO’s ACT therapists are experienced in applying the approach specifically to trauma and PTSD.

Book a session with a certified Trauma Therapist on TYHO. EMDR, TF-CBT, CPT, Brainspotting, and ACT available online and in-person from S$130.80.