mental health counseling for trauma victims

To schedule appointments email us at info@traumawellness.com.

Let us know if you are interested in a particular therapist and whether or not you wish to use insurance or self-pay. We will contact you back ASAP (typically within 24 business hours).

Please note that we are not emergency responders, we have a list of Crisis Resources (phone numbers and some links) that you can contact when in emergencies. We also have these numbers on stickers for the back of your cell phone.

We respond to our contacts within 24 business hours but we are not available in off hours.

Let us help you discover how to overcome your fight/flight/freeze response and live the life you deserve.

What is Trauma Wellness?

My name is Amy Dilworth and for the first part of my life, I had a passion for dance. I took ballet starting at age 3 and expanded to jazz and modern dance through the years. I ended up earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Dance Education. I taught dance after I graduated and I performed in local community theatre. I met a music therapist who was a cast member in a show with me. After learning about music therapy from her, I realized that I felt called to combine my dance with therapy somehow. I ended up earning a Masters of Science in Community Agency Counseling.

I heard about Bessel Vanderkolk in my first job as a therapist in 1997. He was doing MRI’s of peoples brains and identifying the physical changes in the brain for those who had encountered trauma. It was during those years that he discovered how the hippocampus, where memories move from short to long-term memory, shrinks after prolonged exposure to trauma and the amygdala (next to the hippocampus) gets larger. The amygdala is where our fight, flight or freeze responses come from.

In the years since then, Bessel Vanderkolk and other trauma specialists have identified how our body holds the record/score of our trauma and how healing from trauma needs to include the body. This has inspired me as a therapist who loves dance and the mind-body connection. I dreamed about having a practice that had space for more movement and art based treatment. In 2022 I had the opportunity to open Trauma Wellness with space for two therapists and a large room for the movement/art/play/sandtray/etc… interventions.

We will meet you where you are, even in fight, flight or freeze responses, and help you learn how to regulate your emotions. We will also help you to find healthier coping skills.

A young girl dressed in a red ballet costume and white tights is sitting on the floor in a ballet pose, extending her right arm upward while looking up, against a dark background.

Three female dancers perform a synchronized dance routine on a dark stage, with arms raised and bent at various angles, wearing sleeveless tops and capri pants.

A young woman with curly hair dancing with her eyes closed in a room with white curtains and a wooden ceiling. She is wearing a white t-shirt with colorful graphics on the side and light blue jeans.

Directions

402 Clyde Street, Suite 3
Knoxville, TN 37921

Hours
By appointment only

Phone
(865) 407-0215

Directions from I-40 East Bound and from Middlebrook Pike East Bound

Take the University Avenue exit

Go straight through the stop sign and get in the far left lane

Turn left onto Middlebrook Pike

Go under the interstate and through one light

Turn right onto Clyde Street (right before Western Avenue)

Go straight across Ailor Avenue

Building is on left at end of the street (white brick with red awnings)

We share a building with Finklestein et al

Building entrance and disability entrance in pictures below

Directions from I-40 West Bound

Take the 17th street exit and get in the left lane of the exit ramp

Take the first left onto Clyde Street

Building is on left at end of the street (white brick with red awnings)

We share a building with Finklestein et al

Building entrance and disability entrance in pictures below

A beige brick building with red awnings over windows, surrounded by trees, parked cars in a lot, and a blue sky. Handwritten annotation instructs how to access the building, including entering through a stairwell on the left side of the building on the second floor.

Back alley with beige brick building, chain-link gate, and overgrown bushes. The ground is paved with interlocking bricks, and there are a few fallen leaves.

Park on left side of lot, walk down left side of building

Close-up of a gate latch and keypad lock attached to a metal gate, with a chain-link fence and brick wall in the background.

Lift black cover and punch in code, turn handle hard

Outdoor metal staircase with black steps and metal railings, leading up between brick walls, with a warning sign at the top and some fallen leaves on the steps.

Go up the stairs

A metallic wall-mounted keypad entry system with a numeric keypad and an illuminated red light, set against a brick wall background.

Punch in same code at the top of the stairs and enter door when light turns green

IF YOU HAVE A DISABILITY OR STRUGGLE WITH STAIRS, DRIVE PAST THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BUILDING, PARK IN THE BACK, USE RAMP, PRESS THE BUTTON AND WAIT FOR SOMEONE TO COME OPEN THE DOOR.

A paved parking lot with a building on the left and trees on the right. Shadows of tree branches are cast on the pavement. Two cars are parked at the top of the incline. A security sign is posted near the stairs leading to the building entrance.

Drive past right side of building

Empty parking lot with one black car parked near lush green trees and bushes on a sunny day.

Park in the back of building

Sidewalk with a metal handrail and stone border next to a brick building, with a large tree and blue sky in the background.

Use the ramp to the door

Sign with instructions for door access, indicating the door is always locked, wait for green light on keypad, then open right door once green light appears. Below the sign are a security keypad and an access control box attached to a brick wall.

Reflective glass door with security and no smoking signs, a woman taking a photo, trees outside, blue sky, and a brick wall to the right.

press button to ring inside, wait for someone to come and open door for you