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Trauma-Informed Care

Trauma-informed care is grounded in and directed by a thorough understanding of the neurological, biological, psychological, and social/relational effects of trauma. It takes into account knowledge about trauma — its impact, interpersonal dynamic, and paths to healing.

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Seeing Suicidal Ideation through a Trauma-Informed Lens

  • Trauma-Informed Care

“I don’t want to be here anymore.”   These words strike fear in the hearts of all therapists.  They remind us of the reality that pain may be so deep and pervasive that someone would think of ending their life...

Amy Zajakowski Uhll
June 8, 2022

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Coming Back Into Connection

  • Trauma-Informed Care
  • COVID-19

As a trauma therapist, I utilize a body-centered approach with my clients...

Alyssa Arnol
June 7, 2021

How Our Inner Critic Acts Up In Times of Stress

  • Trauma-Informed Care
  • COVID-19

As a therapist to clients during an unprecedented time, a worldwide pandemic, a modern civil rights movement, an intensely divided political climate, I have a unique privilege to witness and be with individuals as they process...

Alyssa Arnol
March 25, 2021

The Power of Bearing Witness

  • Essential Trauma Concepts
  • Trauma-Informed Care

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)...

Holly Wollesen
January 31, 2020

BASE Training Beginning March 6th, 2020

  • Trauma-Informed Care
  • Professional Development

Somatic Experiencing Legacy Faculty, Dave Berger, MFT, PT, LCMHC, SEP will be in Evanston, IL to teach his BASE training (Relational Bodywork and Somatic Education) beginning March 6th, 2020...

Kristin Burns
January 13, 2020

An Evidence-Based House of Cards

  • Trauma In The Media
  • Trauma-Informed Care

Here is my bias: I believe that therapy is unavoidably complex...

Erin Dugas
December 6, 2019

Why I Believe 4-7-8 Breath is a Good Daily Practice

  • Trauma-Informed Care
  • Essential Trauma Concepts

         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...

Evan Rogers
October 18, 2019

Food, The Body, and Trauma and Attachment

  • Trauma In The Media
  • Trauma-Informed Care
  • Study Group

The Body Isn’t the Problem; it’s the answer. - Rachel Lewis-Marlow In our CCIH Study Group in August we decided to change up our usual routine and discuss a podcast...

TU99: Food, The Body, Trauma, & Attachment With Guests Paula Scatoloni & Rachel Lewis-Marlow | Therapist Uncensored

  What if we flipped the script and learned to see our body as a messenger that needs to be heard rather than an obstacle to be conquered when it comes to our relationship with food? When we take physiological perspective, we learn that the body has much to say not only about food but…

Amy Zajakowski Uhll
October 2, 2019

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