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Successfully Addressing Emotional Trauma

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People come to psychotherapy and counseling because they need help. Primarily, help is requested for an array of disruptive symptoms in their life that continue to persist in spite of their best efforts. Common symptoms that draw people into therapy include insomnia, the inability to stop worrying which leads to ongoing anxiety, the feeling of pervasive unhappiness or depression, as well as other physical and psychological symptoms that are very hard to pin down as directly related to earlier traumatic events. Let me provide you with some background and then some examples.

When people suffer a traumatic event, there are all kinds of possible consequences that may ensue. Frequently it is the case that these various traumatic consequences take care of themselves and fade away over time. But there are situations that because of the depth or duration of the particular trauma that these symptoms tend to actually get worse over time. A significant problem is that most practitioners are not sufficiently trained to recognize that these various symptoms are a direct consequence of early traumatic experiences. Let me give you some examples.Read More »Successfully Addressing Emotional Trauma

To Access Your Body’s Wisdom You Must Stay Embodied

Your body is the repository for everything known and unknown about you. If you are not fully present in your physical body, everything that you attempt to accomplish will become very complicated and ultimately unproductive. When Freud began expanding on his psychoanalytic theories, he identified what he called numerous defense mechanisms that the human being unconsciously generates under stress, particularly when having experienced trauma.  Most people are familiar with these defense mechanisms that include rationalization, denial, minimizing and dissociation.  Read More »To Access Your Body’s Wisdom You Must Stay Embodied