Wow I am stunned by the mastery that this therapist just demonstrated. I wish every therapist would be required to watch this. I had a terrible experience trying to seek help for my childhood trauma, it led to feelings of being re-traumatized without really understanding why I was feeling that way or how to deal with it because of a lack of experience and understanding of how to navigate a session with someone that has complex ptsd from childhood rape. I specifically asked the company if they would schedule me with someone that has experience or specializes in childhood sexual trauma and they placed me with someone right out of school. I then told her I did not want to try meditation because I knew it did not work for me from a past attempt to heal, she insisted I try it. I was told to lay back on the couch while she read me a prompt about an imagining a leaf with all of my problems on it blowing down a stream and going away. Needless to say I never went back. But I was exhausted by my attempts to find help and felt like I had opened Pandora’s box of trauma and had no idea how to put it all back. It messed me up for weeks.
Wow I am stunned by the mastery that this therapist just demonstrated. I wish every therapist would be required to watch this. I had a terrible experience trying to seek help for my childhood trauma, it led to feelings of being re-traumatized without really understanding why I was feeling that way or how to deal with it because of a lack of experience and understanding of how to navigate a session with someone that has complex ptsd from childhood rape. I specifically asked the company if they would schedule me with someone that has experience or specializes in childhood sexual trauma and they placed me with someone right out of school. I then told her I did not want to try meditation because I knew it did not work for me from a past attempt to heal, she insisted I try it. I was told to lay back on the couch while she read me a prompt about an imagining a leaf with all of my problems on it blowing down a stream and going away. Needless to say I never went back. But I was exhausted by my attempts to find help and felt like I had opened Pandora’s box of trauma and had no idea how to put it all back. It messed me up for weeks.
Thank you for the good work you're doing!