Trauma can result from a great many events and circumstances and therapy can help to control and eradicate feelings that have resulted. If you are a victim of trauma then a skilled counsellor can help by introducing processes such as exposure therapy and cognitive restructuring methods that will assist with physical and emotional adjustment.
Let’s take a look at two of the most frequently used therapies:
By bringing exposure therapy into play, your therapist will enable you to cope with traumatic memories and situations that are linked to the trauma. By doing this, you will experience within a safe environment the unpleasant physical or emotional feelings that have become a problem. You may feel that you need to avoid certain locations, events or people because if you do not, something bad will happen again.
Exposure will help by showing you that your fears need not come true and will bring them into perspective. If memories are the key to your trauma, therapy and counselling will help you to come to terms with them too.
By using this type of cognitive therapy, your analyst will show you how to identify and change your negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones. The way that you react to a situation will be changed so that you will no longer view it as a dangerous or threatening event. Your counsellor will illustrate to you that the danger has been originating from the way that you perceived the trauma and that by changing your perception, the fear will dissipate.
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Psychodynamic therapy (sometimes known as psychoanalytic or psychodynamic psychotherapy) is a therapeutic process which helps people become more aware of their inner world and the influence this has over their relationships. This type of therapy uses this process as a means of helping patients to understand and resolve their emotional and mental problems.
Support for Veterans tends to be few and far between, when really, they deserve support for the hard work they do and the awful things they endure. Here is an article written by David Bellamy of ICARUS, a very worthwhile association of therapists offering counselling and support to Veterans.
EMDR Stands for Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing. It is possibly one of the most groundbreaking therapies to be discovered and developed in the last thirty years. Discovered by Francine Shapiro in 1988, it is now recognised as an evidence based treatment by the most reputable of therapists globally.
