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Trauma Wellness: Healing Mind, Body & Spirit

Knoxville, Tennessee

Counseling for people healing from trauma

We help you understand your fight, flight or freeze response, calm your nervous system and build a life that feels like yours again.

Request an appointment Meet our counselors

Free 15-minute consultation. Most private insurance, self-pay and sliding scale accepted.

A counseling room at Trauma Wellness with armchairs, a rocking chair, a lamp and a large green painting.
One of our counseling rooms on Clyde Street.

Getting started

How to request an appointment

  1. Contact the counselor you'd like to see

    Not sure who to choose? Read about each counselor.

  2. Tell us a little

    Let us know whether you'll use insurance or self-pay, and when you're available over the next couple of weeks.

  3. We'll reach out

    We reply within 24 business hours to set up a free 15-minute consultation.

We are not an emergency service

We aren't available after hours. If you're in crisis, call or text 988, or call 911 if you're in danger. See our full list of crisis lines. Ask us for a sticker with these numbers for the back of your phone.

Why Trauma Wellness

Healing that includes the body

I'm Amy Dilworth, founder of Trauma Wellness. Dance was my first language. I started ballet at three, earned a B.S. in Dance Education, taught dance and performed in community theatre. A music therapist I met in a show helped me see how movement and therapy could work together, and I went on to earn an M.S. in Community Agency Counseling.

In my first counseling job in 1997, I learned about Bessel van der Kolk's brain imaging research. He found that long-term trauma shrinks the hippocampus, which moves memories from short-term to long-term storage, and enlarges the amygdala, where fight, flight and freeze begin. His later work, and that of other trauma specialists, showed that the body keeps the score of trauma, so healing has to include the body too.

In 2022 I opened Trauma Wellness to make room for that kind of healing, with counseling offices and a large room for movement, art, play and sandtray work.

We'll meet you where you are, even in fight, flight or freeze, and help you learn to regulate your emotions and find healthier ways to cope.

A young girl in a red ballet costume sitting in a ballet pose with one arm raised. A young woman dancing with her eyes closed. Three dancers performing together on a dark stage.

How we help

Talk therapy, and more than talk

Each counselor specializes in different kinds of trauma. Together we design a plan that fits you, drawing on approaches like these:

  • EMDR
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy
  • Somatic therapy
  • Mindfulness
  • Art therapies
  • Play therapy
  • Sandtray therapy

See the issues we treat and our approaches

Fees
$165 per 50-minute session with a licensed counselor. Sliding scale available when needed.
Insurance
We accept most private insurance. We do not accept TennCare or Medicare.
Who we see
Children, adolescents and adults, in person in Knoxville, with telehealth when weather or illness requires it.

Our counselors

Licensed counselors who specialize in trauma

Amy DilworthAmy DilworthMS, LPC, MHSP ยท Owner Alicia StipesAlicia StipesMS, LPC, MHSP Aimee FineganAimee FineganMS, LPC, MHSP

Visit us

Our office

402 Clyde Street, Suite 3, Knoxville, TN 37921. Sessions are by appointment only.

Our entrance is up a stairwell on the left side of the building, and there is a ramp entrance on the right side. See step-by-step photo directions.

A waiting area with two gray armchairs, a small table and large windows. The movement and play room with a bean bag, small table, baskets and an easel. A small counseling room with three patterned chairs.