Safety and Stabilisation
In trauma therapy, safety and stabilisation are foundational steps that aim to help you feel secure and grounded before addressing the trauma itself. These steps are critical in the healing process because trauma can overwhelm our ability to cope with emotions and distressing memories. Establishing safety and stabilisation provides the emotional and psychological groundwork for more intensive therapeutic work later on.
Each therapist has a multitude of tools and techniques to assist you in this phase of the work that will help you to decrease your PTSD symptoms.
Emotion and Interpersonal Regulation
Our therapists offer a evidence-based 10 week programme that is designed to help with emotional regulation and relationship difficulties that people commonly experience after a trauma. It will also prepare you for working in the more intense phase of trauma work which involves processing painful memories of the trauma. The goals of this therapy are to:
- Develop emotional awareness
- Build coping skills for handling negative feelings and distress
- Review how to make decisions about whether tolerating distress makes sense to reach your goals
- Understand relationship patterns and create healthy alternatives to unhelpful ones
- Learn interpersonal skills to pair with emotional coping skills to improve relationship
Emotion and Interpersonal Regulation Group Therapy
Our 10 week course can also be offered in a group setting which is more cost effective than a one to one therapy session and encourages peer support.
Please see the group tab for this and to register your interest.
Nightmares
If on your assessment your therapist has discovered that you have post traumatic nightmares then they may suggest a protocol called Exposure, Relaxation and Rescripting Therapy (ERRT). This will help you to consider what may be causing disruption to sleep and working with the nightmare over 3 sessions to reduce their intensity and frequency to promote undisturbed rest.
Dream Completion Technique
If you are experiencing nightmares then you can try the dream completion technique today by visiting the link below and following the guidance:
The Rewind Technique
The Rewind Technique was developed by David Muss for PTSD and phobias and may be used in phase 1 or 2 of therapy. This process allows you to observe the event from a detached perspective. They imagine rewinding and fast-forwarding through the event, which helps reprocess the memory and reduce its emotional impact.
Flash Technique (FT)
All of our therapists have been trained in the standard and advanced use of the Flash Technique which is a therapeutic intervention used primarily in trauma treatment to reduce the distress associated with traumatic memories. It was developed by Dr. Philip Manfield and his colleagues as a gentle alternative or precursor to EMDR.