Tag Archives: trauma therapy
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Why Counseling Falls Short in Treating Trauma
Posted on July 10, 2014 by admin in PTSD Blog.Imagine that you’ve been suffering from headaches, dizziness, and blurred vision. You visit your doctor, and she performs a series of tests. Much to your dismay, she reports back that they’ve discovered a brain tumor. Your doctor prescribes pain killers for your headaches, motion sickness medication for your dizziness, and special prescription glasses for your […]
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Getting to Know Me–The Value of Written Dialogue
Posted on March 10, 2014 by admin in PTSD Blog.Photo Credit: trbell.tripod.com This past November I visited Intensive Trauma Therapy (ITT) in Morgantown, West Virginia, for a week of trauma-specific therapy. One of the most valuable things I learned at ITT was the power of written and verbal dialogue to recode and “move” the stuck experiences produced by trauma from one side of our […]
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Trauma Therapy: Five Days to a New Me–For Real
Posted on January 8, 2014 by admin in PTSD Blog.Most people tend of think of people with post-traumatic stress disorder as veterans or Katrina victims. The general population doesn’t know that one in four women will develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in her lifetime. When you’re sitting in a restaurant, ball game, church service, or business meeting, if every eighth person stood up, that’s […]
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Five Misconceptions that Held Me Back from Trauma Treatment
Posted on December 16, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.For the past three years, I’ve been speaking and consulting on post-traumatic stress disorder. After I accompanied my best friend for treatment that radically changed her life, I began to suspect that my life was unraveling because of untreated trauma. But I was different from other people who suffered PTSD. Or so I thought. […]
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Broken Places: A View from the Other Side, Part 5 of 5
Posted on August 21, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.Another email came today. The 6th this week from someone who suffered from a lifetime of PTSD symptoms. Then they found life-changing treatment in the five- to ten-day outpatient program at Intensive Trauma Therapy. Someone who heard Wanda Sanchez’s story on a radio show, online, at a seminar, or at a professional training session. You […]
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A Spider Story and Why People with PTSD Make Sense
Posted on June 5, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.Today my friend Wanda killed a spider. A big, fat ugly one. Wanda splattered some Lysol on it, and the spider drowned a gasping chemical death. But here’s the cool thing. Wanda killed that nasty creature alone, without hollering for help or making a peep. Pretty amazing for somebody who just three short years ago […]
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