Essential Trauma Concepts
Essential Trauma Concepts
Basic theory and concepts that are essential to all trauma-informed care.
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Self-Compassion During Complicated Holidays
With Mother’s Day having passed recently and Father’s Day around the corner, it is important to touch on the fact that these celebrations do not land the same with everyone...
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New Paper by Pat Ogden available until Jan 5
The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute has shared a new article by Dr...
CCIH Statement on Racial Trauma
We at CCIH find ourselves compelled to reflect on what it means to be a trauma-informed therapist during the current times...
Notes From a New Clinician
As a new clinician interested in working with survivors of complex trauma and dissociation, insight from experienced practitioners is invaluable to me...
Integrated Practices in the Time of Coronavirus
In the 10 years I have been facilitating Integrated Practices (formerly Becoming Safely Embodied) group, before this past March I had not considered providing them online...
The Power of Bearing Witness
Over the past week, I have been reflecting on the article Holding, Containing and Bearing Witness: The Problem of Helpfulness in Encounters with Torture Survivors by Dick Blackwell (1997)...
What if there’s nothing wrong with your body?
“What if there’s nothing wrong with my body?” This is an astonishing question - or at least it felt that way to me the first time I asked it of myself...
Why I Believe 4-7-8 Breath is a Good Daily Practice
Deepening our capacity to mindfully attend to internal experience (thoughts, feelings and sensations) in the present moment is an important part of healing from the effects of trauma...