When a threat is detected, we always freeze for a moment before we fight or flee. The problem arises when we get stuck in that freeze response. Freezing can make us feel powerless, unable to act, as though stuck in a nightmare. So how do we help our clients overcome maladaptive freezing?
PTSD, Trauma and Phobias Articles by Mark Tyrrell
Trauma can ruin life for our clients. Being emotionally propelled back into some horrific incident through ‘faulty pattern matching’ is paralysing. Untreated PTSD can also cause clinical depression in some people through the way it can block completion of emotional needs.
How Do You Help a Client When Their Mother Denies They Were Sexually Abused?
What do you do when a client feels betrayed by a parent who denies knowledge of, disbelieves, or even has no interest in, their adult child’s account of having been sexually abused? This was a question on a recent Uncommon Practitioners Q&A call. And you can listen to the segment and my reply here.
What Have I Done?!!!
The morally injured person feels shame, guilt, anger, profound betrayal, and also maybe a kind of moral disorientation, as though they no longer know the difference between right and wrong. And the effects can be devastating.
3 Ways to Help Your Bullied Clients
If we are to help our bullied clients, the first thing we need to understand is what exactly is happening when someone is being bullied.
Uncovering Hidden Trauma
Here are five cases from my own records in which trauma was found to be driving the current problem despite initially not being obvious.
How to Maximize Client Comfort When Using the World’s Most Effective PTSD Cure
Provocative language is important when you’re treating someone with trauma. Here are three specific techniques to use when treating post-traumatic stress disorder and phobias.
Treating Trauma That Hasn’t Happened Yet
Listen to this audio excerpt where I describe what to do when a client has traumatized themselves through their imagination.
“Is It Crucial To Identify The Very First Event Which Created A Trauma Pattern?”
Why finding the root cause of a phobia will not lift it.
How To Encourage Post-Traumatic Growth In Your Clients
Character is built through experience – here are 3 therapy strategies which help your client reflect on what they have learnt from their troubles
3 Reasons I Never Have My Clients Relive Their Traumatic Experiences
Here are three reasons why I never get a client with PTSD to relive their traumatic experiences.
