by Shirley Davis | Jul 19, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, Treatment for CPTSD
Healing from complex trauma takes time, and having a treatment team that is supportive and well-trained in trauma-informed care can be an enormous help. In this article, we shall discuss together more disciplines you can have on your care team and how they can help...
by Robyn Brickel | Jul 16, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, Guest Contributor, Trauma-Informed
I learned an important concept about how to feel emotions again safely – especially after trauma– over 26 years ago from my favorite graduate school professor, the late Terry Taylor Smith, LMFT: When you use the word “but” between two statements, it negates everything...
by Shirley Davis | Jul 12, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, Treatment for CPTSD
In the first part of this series on treatment planning, we focused on what constitutes a treatment plan. If you remember, “A treatment plan is a document outlining the proposed goals, plan, and therapy method to be used by you and your professional. This plan...
by Tsuhai Nzinga | Jul 7, 2021 | Anxiety, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
What is safe? Most people think and believe that feeling safe is locking the doors and windows; knowing there’s a cop available at the end of a 911 call; or even something as simple as believing that red lights and stop signs will be obeyed by other drivers. In that...
by Shirley Davis | Jul 5, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, Pyschotherapy
Upon seeing a mental health specialist, we are often unclear about what brought us there, our purpose for seeing them, and our goals for the future. One method mental health professionals use to help both you and they guide your healing journey is to form a treatment...
by Cassie Sands | Jul 2, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Poetry, Guest Contributor
A survivor poem… And through all of this messiness and brokenness and trauma I begin to piece together a more cohesive story of me I discover forgotten, wounded parts of myself Sealed into catacombs of silence and submission long ago Demanding to be heard I find...
