Trauma & Secure Attachment
When we experience trauma as a child and our mother (or primary caregiver) is not attuned to our needs this is an attachment trauma….
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Deep Attunement for Trauma
THIS IS THE WORK As a therapist it is my job to be deeply attuned to my client, to notice when someone is becoming…
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Integrating Traumatic Experiences
“Effective treatments for trauma involve evoking the fragmented, cognitive, emotional and sensorimotor responses within the patient’s window of tolerance, and facilitating new, adaptive responses…
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How We Can Work Top-Down with The Brain to Heal Trauma
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) recommends the use of psychotherapy in the form of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to treat PTSD (APA, 2010). CBT…
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A Bottom-Up Approach to Trauma
In therapy there are two approaches to trauma. Both refer to the order of areas of the brain being addressed in the therapy. The…
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Does Depression Lead to Loneliness or Does Loneliness Lead to Depression?
Does depression lead to loneliness or does loneliness lead to depression? This was Cacioppo’s question in the early 2000’s. In one of many studies…
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Trauma and Staying Connected
When we have experienced a trauma there might be an impulse to push people away, to feel shame around the trauma. To feel as…
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When To Get Help For Trauma
For some people the normal symptoms of trauma will start to fade after about 4 weeks. For others they will continue and even get…
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Physical & Emotional Symptoms of Trauma
There are so many responses to trauma, remember YOUR response is NORMAL for YOU. You may experience any combination of these symptoms in response…
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Causes of Psychological Trauma
You might be surprised to know there are different kinds of trauma. Our ability to recover from a trauma depends partly on the KIND…
