by Kara | Aug 26, 2024 | Psychoeducation
Big T and little t trauma are terms which are sometimes used to distinguish between different types of traumatic experiences. BIG ‘T’ TRAUMA Big T trauma refers to significant, major traumatic events involving actual (or anticipated) serious injury,...
by Kara | Jan 18, 2024 | History Taking
THE PROBLEM. . . When taking a comprehensive, psycho-social history of our clients, we explore childhood experiences to learn about important elements such as attachment organization, dissociative coping mechanisms, and past traumas. Part this phase of treatment also...
by Kara | May 12, 2022 | Psychoeducation
POLLUTING THE PRESENT Perhaps you’ve had the experience whereby everything in the moment is seemingly going well — the sun is shining, the children are playing happily — and you should not, by all reasonable measures, have a care in the world. Except that you do. And...
by Kara | Nov 12, 2021 | Psychoeducation
One of the metaphors that I like to use to help clients conceptualize and consider change is that of an open field of tall grass. When we engage in a repeated, reactive behavior, it is as if we walk the same path through a field from start to finish. Over time, that...
by Kara | Nov 5, 2021 | History Taking
Target lists, treatment plans, and the three-pronged protocol Part Three: the Three-Pronged Protocol One of the most challenging aspects facing newly trained EMDR clinicians is how to organize the information they learn in phase one of the EMDR 8-Phase protocol —...
