- Transforming the mutual trauma driven extremes of couple distress and disconnection when both have a history of trauma
Trauma 'starts when something happens to us, but that's not where it stops.' It changes our brain. Body stores the memory out of everyday awareness until triggered. We are then overwhelmed and react out of proportion to the size of the present day triggering event, by shutting down, taking flight, erupting or fawning.
Any therapist or counsellor assessing body/mind symptoms may first intuit chronic emotional dysregulation (out of proportion strong felt emotions difficult to recover from) and disorganised attachment styles (clingy one moment, distant the next; sabotaging relationships) in their clients, even without knowing the partner. Both carrying un
Any therapist or counsellor assessing body/mind symptoms may first intuit chronic emotional dysregulation (out of proportion strong felt emotions difficult to recover from) and disorganised attachment styles (clingy one moment, distant the next; sabotaging relationships) in their clients, even without knowing the partner. Both carrying unprocessed trauma represented as chronic ill health in body and mind. PTSD, dissociation, somatisation, and affect dysregulation represent a spectrum of adaptations to trauma. They often occur together.
I have over 45 years of working with clients and their trauma histories. I have lived experience of trauma, which deeply informs my work. I have experienced and provided a wide range of trauma treatments. I have specialised in working with couples where both partners carry traumatic injuries that serially disrupt intimate connection and t
I have over 45 years of working with clients and their trauma histories. I have lived experience of trauma, which deeply informs my work. I have experienced and provided a wide range of trauma treatments. I have specialised in working with couples where both partners carry traumatic injuries that serially disrupt intimate connection and their ability to problem solve creatively. These couple are powerfully drawn to each other.
Dual trauma couples have a unique pattern of simultaneous mutual escalation of distress. Often both going from 0 to 100 in a second. The pattern hijacks manageable problems. It leaves both partners exhausted and despairing. They can take days or weeks recovering, before the cycle of distress repeats. Their turn arounds in couple therapy
Dual trauma couples have a unique pattern of simultaneous mutual escalation of distress. Often both going from 0 to 100 in a second. The pattern hijacks manageable problems. It leaves both partners exhausted and despairing. They can take days or weeks recovering, before the cycle of distress repeats. Their turn arounds in couple therapy are inspiring, heart warming, extraordinary. Their courage and determination to heal is momentous.
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