Religious and spiritual experiences are not always positive; sometimes, they cause emotional harm that affects a client’s identity, belief and sense of safety.
Tag: trauma
A trauma-informed approach benefits both counselors and clients, yet more work needs to be done to ensure these principles are adopted across health care systems.
By working on basic developmental social skills, clients with insecure attachment and trauma histories can learn to build healthy, meaningful relationships.
The toll of racism is implicated in health and mental health disparities that can be addressed only through knowledge, awareness and a commitment to culturally responsive care.
With the right clinical framework, counselors can help clients identify and process the complex experiences of intergenerational trauma.
Counselors who understand the complexities of generational trauma can help clients acknowledge the role it plays in their lives, find healing and ultimately break the cycle.
Are your clients too dysregulated to access coping skills? Reset the nervous system.
Individuals who discover a partner’s infidelity and deception must undertake a challenging journey to find healing for the mind, heart and soul.
A regimen of mindfulness practices, meetings with a professional support network and authentic sharing with his natural supports helped a counselor accept and manage the symptoms of vicarious trauma.
With rates of binge drinking and alcohol use among women on the rise, counselors need to be sensitive to how trauma and shame can intersect with substance use disorder in female clients.