Many adolescent and adult clients with histories of trauma, abuse, neglect and other pain narratives are vulnerable to using self-destructive behaviors to self-soothe or dissociate from unresolved pain. By incorporating CARESS into the therapeutic process, you can give clients meaningful things to do when they get the impulse to self-harm.
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Ever experienced a roadblock in therapy with a client when asking important questions? Drawing can be incredibly valuable tool to help clients express and articulate what they’re feeling. Get to...
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Learn why this expressive modality can have such a profound impact on affect regulation, while helping to keep clients in the optimum window of arousal.
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There is a strong body of research confirming that direct contact with nature increases mental health and psychological and spiritual development.
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Pets can bring an amazing reparative experience to clients who've endured trauma.
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Understand the value of incorporating expressive modalities into your work with clients, allowing them to access their traumatic experiences in a safe therapeutic environment.
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As is often the case, the topic for this post is inspired by a client. A wonderful woman, processing co-dependency said in the middle of her session, “Give...
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Trauma therapists now understand that simply engaging traumatized clients in “talk therapy” all session, every session, will not help them achieve the level of processing and healing they want and deserve.
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