Trauma-Focused Therapy
What is it?
Trauma-Focused Therapy is designed to help you to recover from trauma.
who is it for?
Anyone who has experienced trauma at some point in their lives and is either experiencing symptoms of PTSD, and / or issues such as anxiety, depression, addiction, problems with maintaining healthy relationships.
Trauma-focused therapy will help you to:
- Understand how the trauma has impacted on you
- Build on your own inner resources
- Learn ways to self-soothe, regulate emotions and prevent overwhelm
- Learn strategies for dealing with difficult situations
- Re-process traumatic memories in a safe way to reduce the effect of distressing memories
- Come to terms with what happened
- Begin to set postive goals
- Start to re-engage with people and positive activities
- Move forward
The Process
Following a telephone consultation, if it is agreed that you would benefit from trauma-focused therapy, you will complete assessments to get a good overview of exactly how your symptoms are impacting on your daily life. We will arrange regular sessions.
EMDR
What is it?
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy, proven to be effective in treatingPTSD. It is now used to treat a range of issues. You can find out more about EMDR here.
who is it for?
Anyone experiencing PTSD symptoms, and a range of issues, such as: phobias, anxiety, depression, somatic symptoms (e.g. IBS)
Rewind Trauma Therapy
What is it?
Rewind Trauma Therapy has been developed from NLP and used to treat PTSD symptoms, offering a way of stopping involuntary recall, and bringing trauma memories under control.
who is it for?
Rewind Trauma Therapy can help you if you are experiencing PTSD symptoms and / or phobia due to trauma, and you are in either of these categories:
- Survivor of a traumatic / life-threatening event, e.g. accident, assault, line of duty - armed forces and emergency service personnel
- Witness of a traumatic event
- Responder to the scene, post event, e.g. emergency service worker
- A person who hears about the traumatic event and imagines what occured
- Professionals experiencing vicarious trauma through hearing about it, such as: social workers, counsellors & psychotherapists, doctors, etc.
- The perpetrator of the traumatic event, e.g. driver who unintentionally caused an accident
benefits
- No requirement to talk through the traumatic event, ensuring privacy and reducing the risk of retraumatisation
- No requirement to disclose sensitive information about the event (e.g. armed forces personnel / frontline workers etc.)
- Usually just 1 - 2 sessions required per traumatic event
- Can be stand alone treatment, or included as part of a programme of counselling
The Process
The session will last between 30 - 50 minutes and will include: an assessment to find out the severity of your symptoms, information to help you understand why you are experiencing involuntary trauma memory recall, followed by the Rewind Trauma Therapy.
A second, follow up session will be booked where you will be reassessed, and if needed, further Rewind Trauma Therapy.
