THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES
Somatic Therapy (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy by Pat Ogden PhD):
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a talk therapy that uses guided, mindful, focused awareness of the mind-body connection to gently bring important information to the surface for healing. It enables the discovery and resolution of limiting patterns and trauma symptoms.
These patterns or symptoms can include panic, anxiety, inner critic, emotional overwhelm, and distrust of self and others.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can be effective for healing childhood wounds and rewiring the nervous system. It helps de-activate trauma responses and builds resilience, internal safety, and embodied empowerment.
Attachment-Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR by Laurel Parnell PhD):
Attachment-Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) is also a process that helps remove the residue of painful childhood trauma, or wounding, caused by stressful, hurtful or neglectful upbringings.
AF-EMDR helps create imagined missing experiences such as being protected or nurtured at critical moments. Brain scan studies support this process for change.
By using the imagination and alternating taps or tones from headphones, AF-EMDR updates limiting beliefs and the pain of disturbing events. It also integrates a sense of internal safety and peace.This process helps create more security by healing the residue of persistent childhood coping strategies such as codependency, perfectionism, poor boundaries, and difficulty with intimate relationships,
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST):
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) is a gentle talk therapy that is especially effective in working with dissociative states and general trauma symptoms. This approach supports clients in getting to know and "befriend" their disowned hijacking parts. This helps create a sense of inner safety, control, and emotional tolerance in daily life. TIST is also helpful with addictions, or attempts to re-regulate the nervous system. Grounded in neuroscience and structural dissociation theory, TIST blends Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.
The Flash Technique: A Gentle Approach to Trauma Healing
The Flash Technique helps process isolated traumatic events by briefly recalling the trauma and then quickly shifting to a positive memory, combined with alternating tapping or tones. This technique helps the brain reclassify the traumatic event as harmless and in the past.
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