Trauma-Informed Individual Therapy: Safety First

What I always highlight in my trainings is that it's just we're dancing. Your target market does not see the method. The audience sees a piece of art, the fluidness, the dance, the movement.

Absolutely I understand the step-by-step actions. I've studied them for several years. In those moments where we're working together with the kid or the system, we are dancing with them. See, there is fluidness and there is a dance that is started in synchronicity and link and all those remarkable things that you also educate around.

There is a step-by-step step, number one, number two, number 3. . In enhancement to that, I do assume that if we use therapy similar to as a strategy, it will not have the same impact since it's still continued via a symbolized mind that is qualified of mentalization, that we have the ability to hold the kid's mind in mind in those minutes of vibration as we do EMDR treatment.

And for that, we also need to do our own job, which I have received a great deal of EMDR treatment. I need to experience it. I require to know what it feels to check out those darkness within me. And I have to claim that this internal visits are the ones that actually have actually assisted me take theory to a various level, because or else it remains just theory.

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And I recognize you do that too, Lisa. So when I have actually thought regarding my own experience with EMDR, what's commonly landed for me is this idea of I have a procedure and it depends on me to bring it to life. That's exactly how I speak about it for myself.

A person has to bring life to it. A person has to bring it forth. And I have typically believed that that's where so a lot of the magic and the healing takes area is the method in which the therapist brings it to life in a hip to method with the client.

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Why Integrate EMDR and Play therapy - Playful EMDR

It's such a gorgeous tip of our role in the recovery process and our responsibility in the recovery process. Also. Among the things that I usually tell my trainees is that we can't facilitate adjustment unless we can see something that our customers can recognize they're not able to see.

We have to agree and able to see something that they can't quite yet. And when I hear you chatting concerning we need to go into our very own winters months, I also like that language you're making use of. We have to go into our own wintertimes. What comes to mind is this concept of if I don't recognize that my winter can become summer, then I'm not mosting likely to have assurance when I'm with my customer that their winter season can become summer season.

And I won't be able to hold a brand-new opportunity for my customer because I haven't been through it, to be able to say it's possible, the integration, the improvement is feasible since I don't know. I would enjoy for you to talk even more of that around therapists, perhaps even obtaining stuck in the story with the clients or I don't recognize.

As therapists is our very own obligation to know what it really feels like to relocate through something and what that can bring to our clients. Yeah, I like that the example and just how went from winter seasons to you took it to the following level. As we experience likewise the springtime and the summertime, however we also discover the autumn, right.

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As we navigate and dance with the different stages of life. I think that we're far better geared up to go along with an additional human mind, embodied mind, to do recognize to go through that journey. There is an author, Sarah simply neglected her last name. And she discusses mythology, which I'm captivated by, that I just like tales.

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As we go through the abyss, then she said, which I like, this, the incorrect self is going to begin to transform and then the authentic self arises. Therefore via those trips, death and rebirth, then we find who we are and at some point the ones of us that travel back and forth, then we find out to come with others.

And afterwards we can now see in the abyss. We can see with the darkness and afterwards we can assist others, right. To accept that because that belongs to the healing. And so in EMDR therapy, we welcome those shadows. We welcome it's not just a memory as a cognitive spoken story, however we accept the experiences from a symbolized perspective.

I indicate, there are moments, despite my adult customers, where I seem like so honored to be in that moment and to be able to accompany another human, to head to those deep degrees, those deep places of our human presence, right. Those layers that are so deep, where you know that because minute something was transformed.

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Those are deep moments that you get goosebumps and you understand, wow, something took place here. I indicate, I'm also having emotion, listening and reflecting on what you're claiming. And I know for me, it's why I determined to become a therapist, due to the fact that I desired to be of service to somebody.