Now that we have looked at the standard protocol for EMDR and how it can be adapted for DID, we want to discuss the technique based on our own experience with it. As always, we are focusing on the treatment of complex trauma with structural dissociation. Some people don’t trust EMDR because it is […]
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EMDR: The Progressive Approach for severe Trauma 2
It is not rare for DID or subforms to get diagnosed after an EMDR session went terribly, terribly wrong. Once we understand why the basic protocol for EMDR can stir up so much within a system that patients get overwhelmed, we will look at a different approach to EMDR that can make processing safer and […]
EMDR: The Progressive Approach for severe Trauma 1
When we look at the standard protocol for EMDR we soon realize that it is too difficult for a lot of people with a background of severe abuse. We need more stability to manage trauma work, yet we can’t gain that stability because of our severe trauma symptoms. It can feel like we need to […]
The Awareness Continuum for Trauma Therapy
With early childhood trauma we rarely get a chance to develop well in every aspect of our being, that includes mental processes. We usually struggle to separate inside and outside reality and to tell the difference between: our sensations and reality, what we perceive seems to be all there is our thoughts and reality, believing […]
FAQ: When will Flashbacks stop?
One of the most frequently asked questions we get is “When will flashbacks stop?“ So here is the answer, not intended to be exhaustive. Short-term For PTSD Trigger Flashbacks can only stop when we stop being triggered, which means that we need to remove ourselves from the trigger or the trigger from us. […]
Radical Openness in Trauma Therapy
Virtues come in opposing pairs that balance each other (see the v-square). Most of us are familiar with Radical Acceptance. The lesser known counter-part to that is Radical Openness. Radical acceptance is used to reduce suffering caused by rejecting things we can’t change. Radical Openness helps us to change, when we have accepted something that […]
The 8 Phases of EMDR
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It relies heavily on scripts, which makes it easy to research. A multitude of studies show that it works just as well as other easily researched approaches for trauma confrontation while being more gentle for both Ts and patients. Why exactly EMDR works is not fully explained. […]
Getting out of chronic dissociation Part 2
With exercises for getting out of chronic dissociation the way the exercise is done is vastly more important than the action in itself. We will first look at the position of the Engaged Explorer, explain how to do titration and revisit the trinity of regulation for a solid foundation. Only then can we approach the […]
Getting out of chronic dissociation Part 1
Complex PTSD is sometimes accompanied by chronic dissociation. It means being in a permanent state of disconnection from our body, our emotions, our needs and sensations and the people around us. We are still functioning in everyday life, but certain areas of our awareness are offline. That’s why this is also called functional shutdown. This […]
Capacity and Avoidance
There are different opinions about avoidance and they seem to fall short when it comes to the reality of living a functional life with cPTSD. So we will take a short look at the extreme statements about avoidance and explore the body work concept of capacity to create more clarity. Avoidance Contra Some believe […]
TRE for healing complex trauma?
TRE stands for Tension and Trauma Release Exercises. It is a new form of releasing stress through working with the body. To understand why and how TRE works we need to take a look at physiology and a polar bear. Theory In mammals we can find a natural response to extreme stress that keeps […]
Impulse and Control
Trauma usually comes with problems in self-regulation and self-control but people differ in the way it shows. Under-control (UC) like chronically unmanageable emotions or intense, often destructive, impulses are usually diagnosed as BPD, sometimes it shows in impulsive eating disorders like binge eating or bulimia. We think that under-control is addressed well in DBT, so […]
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