When clients avoid conflict, it can make sustaining relationships difficult. And that includes the therapeutic relationship. But according to Eboni Webb, PsyD, before you address your client’s conflict avoidance head on, you might want to consider their attachment style. In the video below, Eboni walks through her attachment-based approach with clients who avoid conflict or […]
A 3-Step Approach to Help Heal Attachment Wounds – with Frank Anderson, MD
As practitioners, we know how important the role of attachment can be in a client’s healing process. That’s why addressing early attachment wounds is often a key part of trauma therapy. So in the video below, Frank Anderson, MD will walk us through a 3-step process to help clients let go of pain they’ve carried […]
Treating Attachment Trauma with Compassionate Imagery, with Deborah Lee, DClinPsy
Attachment trauma can leave clients on constant alert for threats . . . . . . which can make processing traumatic memories incredibly difficult. So in the video below, Deborah Lee, DClinPsy, shares how she worked with one client who was severely neglected in her childhood. She’ll walk you through the imagery exercise she used […]
[Infographic] Shame vs. Guilt – A Client Handout
You’ve probably heard clients use guilt and shame interchangeably to describe their feelings. But as practitioners, we know that shame and guilt are two very different emotions, each with its own purpose and path to healing. That’s why we created this free infographic designed to help clients understand the key differences between these two emotions […]
[Infographic] – Four Key Ways Collapse/Submit Can Present in a Client
Like many of the emerging defense responses to trauma, the collapse/submit response can be difficult to recognize. So to give you a clearer idea of what this trauma response can look like, we created this free infographic that highlights four key ways it might present in a client. To put this infographic together, we gathered […]