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Recovery In Trauma

Recovery from trauma like any psychotherapy is very individual.  Why is this so?

My excitement about Somatic Experiencing is that in twenty five years of practice, this is a giant, and I mean giant, step forward.   Somatic Experiencing both speeds recovery as well as builds internal resources within a client forever.

People leave with a new skill sets that they can use everyday to restore balance.    What is very individual is the level of trust the person has to work with, their ability to suspend head control and work with simpler tools like sensation and image.  Another individual factor is how much trauma a person has experienced in their life, as well as their current stress level.  Some folks have had a lot of early trauma and that usually means resources have to be built first.  

Trauma is a lot like Velcro, it connects internally in the nervous system.   Working with trauma is a little like working with fire.  Fire keeps us warm, cooks food,  but out of control, very destructive.  Hence, work must be done in a way that is always building a sense of fuller safer contact with ones body.  People with trauma generally disconnect from their body to some extent.  This automatic disconnect is for protection and must be respected, not forced.   I generally advise people to try five sessions.  In this time, my experience has been,  people should be able to experience some results on which to evaluate the treatment approach for themselves.

Also Read: Frozen by Fear
-When Too Much Happens Too Fast

By Lynne Parsons, Psy.D.
Published by Pardee Hospital in Health Talk