K.D. Holmes Blog

KD Holmes, LPC and Trauma Informed Therapy

How to Heal Your Trauma Brain

Trauma can have a lasting impact on an individual’s mental health, affecting their ability to cope with stress, build relationships, or even function from day to day. Treatment of trauma rests on the foundation that trauma brain or trauma-based reactions can be changed first through skill-based techniques to “stabilize” clients, and only after these skills are learned can individuals reprocess their trauma.  Stabilization is the foundation of treatment and takes time to implement into our lives.

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Therapy | Counseling Results

What does “Therapy/Counseling” Really do?

 

1. What are reasonable therapeutic expectations?

Most clients have no idea how long it will take to change reactions to symptoms or habits that are part of how they live their lives. Changing our reactions to symptoms depends on several factors such as how long we have been experiencing symptoms and maladaptive reactions. Are they connected to other habits or symptoms?

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