here is an exciting paradigm being established and integrated in the mental health field regarding effective and salient treatment for all intensity levels of trauma. Recognizing, understanding, and providing effective trauma-informed care has steadily increased in the past 10-years and can not only complimented but even catalyze the effectiveness of established talk-therapy methodologies for many presenting issues.
Greater understanding regarding the lasting effects of trauma has provided much needed clarity, for both clinician and client, in how these long-standing effects can both manifest and further complicate common mental health issues and symptoms (e.g., depression, anxiety, dissociation, anger, etc.) and brings them to the shared human level of being a very natural response to feeling threatened and unsafe. Treatment generally begins with education on the underlying physiological and neurological processes that are engaged during a trauma response, the common strategies that develop around these responses (e.g., fight, flight, freeze, and fawn), and a self-paced and authentic exploration of salient experiences within the individual’s lifetime.
