Remedy Counseling Center

09/29/2023

Successful trauma treatment requires a fundamental knowledge of TRAUMA and a POWERFUL MODALITY. This training is designed to assist Brainspotting practitioners with strengthening their fundamental trauma knowledge and skill competencies to enhance BSP’s full potential to facilitate deep and lasting healing and foster expansive possibility.

04/21/2023

04/18/2023

Register now for this free class before tickets are gone.

04/17/2023

TRAUMA FUNDAMENTALS-PART ONE
LAST WEEK TO REGISTER

https://www.eventcreate.com/e/traumafundamentals

“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.” ― Desmond Tutu.
Join me in learning what has happened to trauma survivors "up river" so we as clinicians and practitioners can better support their healing process. Become more skilled and effective at treating traumatic stress-to enhance your trauma informed skills and techniques.

04/14/2023

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUCH
If you have gone to therapy to work on trauma-what is something you wished your therapist knew or did that would have been helpful for you?

04/07/2023

TRAUMA FUNDAMENTALS: PART I
https://www.eventcreate.com/e/traumafundamentals to register and get more information.

This training is designed to strengthen a practitioner’s ability to conceptualize trauma, the trauma survivors experience, and their own beliefs and attitudes about trauma.

To facilitate client healing from traumatic experiences-it is essential that practitioners have a basic working knowledge of what trauma is, but even more crucial, a foundational understanding of what trauma does. This knowledge provides the practitioner greater insight into how trauma impacts a client’s body, emotional state, cognitions, and interpersonal relationships.

Trauma Fundamentals offers a synthesis of 10 (ten) fundamental trauma competencies to support and facilitate working with trauma survivors. The ten competencies are divided into three parts-knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Part I-Basic Trauma Fundamentals builds the foundation of trauma competencies by focusing on knowledge competencies which includes:
1. the etiology of trauma,
2. a working and conceptual definition of trauma,
3. the normal and expected responses and reactions of a traumatized person,
4. how trauma impacts the body, brain, overall health, and the resulting disorganized system of the trauma survivor.

TO RESISTER- https://www.eventcreate.com/e/traumafundamentals to register and get more information.

06/22/2022

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06/07/2022

Children are often our best teachers; their emotions and behaviours often reveal to us our wounds and the lessons we need to learn in our journey as human beings.

Often when our children's behaviour or emotions upsets us (the times we feel shaken to our core), it reveals to us injuries from our own childhood that need healing. This is often what makes parenting him so difficult---the little boy or little girl and eyes felt unseen, unheard, or unsafe is brought back to the surface during hard parenting moments.

Recommended Books: (1) Parenting from the Inside out; (2) Conscious Parenting; (3) Shame-Proof Parenting

07/20/2021

No, you aren’t “still” just living in the past or not “letting it go”. You are responding exactly as you are designed to, if you have unresolved trauma. It’s not coming from your mind, but from your nervous system and it’s biological adaption to keep you safe.

07/15/2021

06/30/2021

This is truth! Ignoring feelings contributes to pain. Pain in our body, pain in our interactions with people, and pain in our relationships.

06/21/2021

Our dysfunctional relationship with emotions has glorified the idea that men should be strong, dissociated machines.

The men of our collective are deeply suffering— mostly silently. Unable to be vulnerable. Many of them have been shamed for crying (or showing any emotion at all) since the time they were children.

Our men don’t need shaming, they need healing. They need their pain to be witnessed, heard, + understood.

Love to all the men who are taking responsibility for their healing. For having the courage to face their shadows. For waking up to the ways they’ve worn a mask + played a role they weren’t meant to play.

The father wound is the root cause of so much pain, violence, + addiction in our world.

Every man that heals, heals his children.

Tag a man who’s doing the work + let them know you see them

06/18/2021

PTSD is a complicated and complex reaction to surviving something that overwhelmed our natural physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychological resources. It threatened our sense of safety and our life, or the safety and life of someone else we love or were in proximity to. Only society separates physical and emotional safety; the brain and the body do not.

Nobody chooses to be distressed. Nobody chooses to just not get over it. Nobody chooses to live in a body that gets hijacked and overwhelmed "for no reason."

If you’ve lived through a traumatic event, it’s natural to think that as time passes, you’ll get over it and move on with your life. But that doesn’t always happen. Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can occur right after a terrible event, or they can emerge weeks, months, or even years after a traumatic incident. PTSD can also be chronic after years of abuse or growing up in an unpredictable and stressful home, such as with an alcoholic or drug-abusing parent. Persistent early childhood trauma can set kids up for PTSD later in life.

Because PTSD symptoms may not emerge immediately, you may not connect your distressing symptoms with the trauma you experienced.

1. Memory Issues

PTSD can impact your memories in a number of ways. You might experience recurrent upsetting thoughts or dreams of a past traumatic event. Flashbacks can pop up at any time—even when you’re in a familiar place—and make you feel like you’re experiencing the trauma all over again. You may find that you’re unable to stop thinking about the event, and distressing thoughts loop incessantly in your head. In other cases, you may have lapses in your memory regarding certain aspects of a traumatic event.

2. Increased Anxiety

It’s common for people with PTSD to feel constant anxiety or to experience panic attacks. You may be easily startled or feel like you’re always on guard, expecting something bad to happen at any moment. Some people with PTSD say they feel “jumpy” or “jittery.”

3. Avoidance

If you purposely steer clear of anything—people, places, or things—that reminds you of the traumatic event, it could be a sign of PTSD. You may avoid talking about the event and refuse to share your feelings about what happened.

Treatment recommendations in detail on www.amenclinics.com 👏🏻

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06/14/2021

Trauma isn’t just about what happened to you. It is about what happened AND what is leftover in our bodies after what happened. These psychological injuries are healable. There is hope. So much hope!

“ After the Trauma is over, we remember it with our bodies. Brain scan research demonstrates that traumatic memories are encoded primarily as bodily and emotional states rather than narratives. But when Trauma is remembered without words, it is not experienced as memory. These implicit physical and emotional memory states do not “carry with them the internal sensation that something is being recalled. We act, feel and imagine without recognition of the influence of past experience on our present reality” Dan Siegel . 🧠When implicit memories are triggered, we experience overwhelming feelings, sensations, and impulses”Dr.Janina Fisher.

06/07/2021

We have needs that go beyond food, shelter, and clothing. We know intuitively when these needs are not being met because they cause pain. Just like we experience pain if we do not have enough to eat, adequate clothing from the elements, and safe shelter. Pain. Real, physical embodied pain.

Childhood trauma is also:

NOT BEING SEEN OR HEARD: Our core human needs are to be seen, heard, + authentically expressed as we are. If we had stressed, overworked, distracted parents (who were deeply struggling themselves) these emotional needs aren’t met. We begin to deny/betray parts of who we actually are in an attempt to get love or approval. As adults this creates a fear of criticism, disconnection from intuition, + confusion around who we actually are.

HAVING A PARENT FIGURE DENY YOUR REALITY: As children, we experience events very differently than adults. When we share our experience with parent figures + they tell us “it wasn’t that bad” or “that didn’t really happen,” we begin to no longer trust ourselves. We start to outsource our reality to people around us. As adults this relationships where we feel “crazy” or unsure or what’s real.

BEING TOLD DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY YOU CAN’T OR SHOULDN’T EXPERIENCE CERTAIN EMOTIONS: Sounds like— “man up’ “don’t cry” “don’t be dramatic” “stop being so sensitive.” We become conditioned to believe emotions are ‘bad’ + need to be denied to repressed in order to make others comfortable.

HAVING A PARENT FIGURE WHO CAN’T REGULATE THEIR EMOTIONS: looks like— a parent figure who becomes easily overwhelmed + screams, engages in “ghosting” or silent treatment, or uses substances/food/romantic relationships to cope. As children, we need our parent figures to model how to feel ‘big’ emotions. If we don’t get this, we adapt similar coping mechanisms they did.

HAVING A PARENT FIGURE THAT’S FOCUSED ON APPEARANCE: Our parents body image becomes our own internalized body images. The way they speak about their own bodies + our bodies becomes our intently voice. We unconsciously believe our appearance is the way to gain (or lose) love/approval.

HAVING A PARENT FIGURE WHO DOES NOT MODEL BOUNDARIES: we only learn boundaries by witnessing them. If our parent figures didn’t have boundaries or violated our boundaries, we don’t have them as adults. This manifests as relationships where we feel taken advantage, guilty for having our own needs,or resentful. We also don’t understand how to honor others boundaries

12/06/2020

When the holidays are harder than they need to be . . .

Covert narcissists are one of the most damaging types of narcissists, because the way they manipulate and control is so subtle, it usually goes unnoticed.   Because of this you can be in a rela...

09/14/2020

In my 40 years practicing medicine, I’ve learned no one wants to see a psychiatrist but everyone wants a better brain. What if mental health was just called brain health? 🧠👏