How to Work with Patients Whose Trauma Triggers Problems in Their Current Relationships
 | with Stephen Porges, PhD; |  |
with Stephen Porges, PhD; Terry Real, MSW, LICSW;
Janina Fisher, PhD Richard; Schwartz, PhD; Pat Ogden, PhD; Martha Sweezy, PhD, LICSW; Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD; Deb Dana, LCSW; Thema Bryant-Davis, PhD; Ruth Buczynski, PhD
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The day after the last session, I had a session with a client experiencing relationship problems. She had quite traumatic experiences as a child. What I learned was immediately useful.She recognised and found it helpful to have recognised the wounded child and the adaptive child parts of herself. This concept helped her make sense of her tendency to close down, back off at the slightest provocation when getting to know new people. She felt good when her ‘adaptive child’ was offered sincere thanks for protecting her ‘wounded child’. Initially she agreed to notice which part of herself she was acting from so that, hopefully, this increased awareness would give her choices that she had not had previously.
It has been a joy and a privilege to hear your team offer such a range of enlightening ideas with compassion and insight. Immediately applicable in therapy.. Thank you so much!
I have appreciated the trauma series so much. Never have I been so aware of the impact of unexamined trauma on our lives, as I am now. So important for us as individual adults, in partner relationships, as parents, and in all stages of life and relationships. As Ruth said, our processing the trauma in our lives “can change the world.”
Mary J. Dean, DMin., LMFT
Carrollton, GA 30117
Thank you so much! I have found this course really useful and thought provoking. As a Transactional Analysis practitioner, it has been really interesting to see how I can include the therapeutic approaches presented into my work.
Thank you so much for offering this program it has definitely had an impact on my practice. It has also given me a lot of confidence in some of the techniques that I am already using. I feel that after today’s session I will be more confident in using the wounded child, adaptive child and functional adult with my clients. It has also given me a deeper insight into the ways to assess and work with men who have experienced early sexual abuse. Once again, thank you for these most valuable sessions.
This was excellent. Very well done! I liked the concept of invisible bone bruises created when parts are exiled and when triggered, the other parts impulsively try to control the pain. I also enjoyed the reminder that the Therapist’s genuine presence can have very powerful effects on a Client’s healing. There was so much really good information packed into this one-hour session. Thank you very much!
So excellent as always. Really is new to me to think about “Couples Work” and how to bounce each person off of eachother. Reminders all: Implicit memory versus stated story: i think it is the sensorimotor work that is most interesting right now~! Love your putting into action how to work with Dissociation which has been a specialty of mine for years as a social worker, intuitively, but only accidentally discovering what works for the person. I love the idea of literally encouraging the partner how to help the other to ground, and vice versa, as no one knows a person’s flight into dissociation more than an intimate partner. …And then also, how excellent excellent discussion of intimacy and whys and hows of its difficulty! Thank you for all. Always. Have signed up for the Gold.