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Trauma & Attachment Healing
Faith-based trauma healing is gentle, trauma-informed care that takes both your wounds and your faith seriously. Dr. Lori Dunn — who holds a Master of Arts in Trauma & Crisis Management — helps you move beyond survival, tending complex trauma and attachment wounds with Christ-centered care and inner healing prayer, at a pace your soul can hold.
What is trauma-informed Christian care?
Trauma is not just what happened to you — it’s what the experience left behind: the hypervigilance, the shutdown, the patterns in your body and relationships that outlived the event. Trauma-informed care understands this and refuses to rush or re-wound you.
Attachment wounds form early, in the relationships that were meant to keep us safe. They shape how we trust, how we love, and the quiet beliefs we carry about whether we’re wanted. Healing them is possible — and it happens in safe, restorative relationship.
Dr. Dunn brings specialized training in trauma and crisis together with a deep faith that God meets us in our most wounded places. The result is care that is both clinically informed and Christ-centered.
Where this care helps
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Complex & developmental trauma
The lasting effects of prolonged or early-life trauma, tended with patience.
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Attachment wounds
Healing the patterns formed in early relationships that still shape connection today.
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Lingering fear & shame
Bringing the anxiety, shame, and "stuck" places into God’s light and truth.
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Spiritual wounds
Care for those hurt in or by faith communities, held with gentleness.
What to expect
Healing at the pace of safety
Trauma work is never forced. We move slowly and consensually, building safety before we go near the tender places. You remain in control the whole way — we pause, slow down, or stop whenever you need.
Compassionate care helps name what happened and how it shaped you; inner healing prayer invites God into those very memories for comfort and truth. Woven together, they make room for the kind of healing that reaches body, soul, and spirit.
Because trauma can carry real clinical weight, this care is pastoral and works alongside — never instead of — licensed medical and mental-health treatment. If clinical care is the right next step, we’ll help you find it.
Common questions
Questions about trauma & attachment healing
Can faith-based care really help with trauma? +
Yes — when it’s genuinely trauma-informed. Dr. Dunn’s M.A. in Trauma & Crisis Management shapes a gentle, safety-first approach, integrated with prayer. It is pastoral support that works alongside, not in place of, licensed clinical treatment.
What are attachment wounds? +
Attachment wounds are injuries to our earliest sense of safety and belonging, usually formed in childhood relationships. They quietly shape how we trust and connect as adults — and they can be healed in safe, restorative relationship.
Is this the same as seeing a trauma therapist? +
No. Dr. Dunn provides faith-based, pastoral care — not licensed clinical therapy. For some people that integration of faith and trauma-informed support is exactly the missing piece; for others, licensed clinical care is needed, and we’re glad to refer.
I was hurt by a church. Is this safe? +
Yes. Spiritual wounds are real, and they’re held here with particular gentleness and no pressure. You set the pace, and your story is received with care.
Keep exploring
Related care
Inner Healing Prayer
Inviting God into painful memories for comfort, truth, and freedom.
Learn more →Faith-Based Emotional Healing
Christ-centered care for anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions.
Learn more →About Dr. Dunn
Her training, story, and heart for the wounded and overlooked.
Learn more →Take the first step
Move beyond survival
You don’t have to carry it alone or relive it to heal. A free consultation is a gentle place to begin.