Music Therapy in Cambridge - Xing Yi 剑桥音乐治疗 - 幸奕

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I haven't been active in publishing posts here. Motherhood takes a lot of time and energy, and now it has doubled. 🥰 Many opportunities came up recently, prompting a lot of learning as part of my duty to continuing my professional development. Here I'm sharing a little knowledge of my recent CPD training about "Developmental Trauma" organized by Beacon House.

What is Developmental Trauma?
A repeated overwhelmingly stressful situation experienced by the CHILD as traumatic. It affects a child's brain development. Research showed that the gap between a child with developmental trauma and a child without developmental trauma grows bigger as they grow older. In other words, you can't really see much difference and identify them when they are little.

Big "T" trauma - adverse traumatic experience, for example assault, violence, abuse, war, neglect, etc etc

Small "t" trauma- distressing but non-life threatening events that are often not seen as trauma. Can be as simple as moving, parental stress, disharmony in family, emotional needs not being met, etc ... It can cause issues when accumulated and unresolved.

What can we do to help?
When we feel our emotional pain is heard and seen, it reduces the pain drastically. It usually causes more problems when we feel ALONE in that pain, for example when we feel we couldn't tell anyone or trust anyone about how we truly feel. What we can offer is the CAPACITY to listen and to be with one's emotional pain. It can be through words, music or other forms of art. That itself is a powerful healing tool.

16/07/2025

Gave a talk about Music Therapy with Refugees and Asylum Seeking People today at Fulborn Hospital, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. It was wonderful. 😊

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