Individual Trauma Therapy
The therapeutic setting plays a crucial role in healing trauma. Individual therapy provides a unique, personal space where clients explore their trauma-related symptoms in a one-on-one setting with a professional.
Individualized trauma therapy is tailored to the unique needs of trauma victims
Each person's experience with trauma is unique and so is their road to recovery. A therapist must be flexible and responsive to the specific needs of the client.
- Adjusting the pace of therapy to the client's pace
- Integrate different therapy models depending on the client.
- Therapist works with client to develop customized strategies.
Group therapy
Objectives of group therapy for trauma
Create trust between the client and therapist to allow openness and honesty.
- Relational: being able to form secure relationships
- Physical: restore secure relationship with body and reduce physical problems
- Neurobiological: making the survival mechanisms smaller
- Emotional: installing emotion regulation
- Cognitive: controlling unhelpful thoughts
- Transpersonal: reconnecting with transpersonal part
The ultimate goal is for the client to lead a fulfilling, resilient and meaningful life.
Giving the trauma a place in the life story so that it no longer defines daily reality.
How does it work?
The therapist works from an integrative treatment method ( see treatment methods).
The therapy is long-term.
Practical interpretation
Individual trauma therapy is bi-weekly fifty-minute sessions.
The therapist offers a personalized treatment plan, with the pace and focus tailored to the client.