In a recent study Minnesota researchers observed that patients with PTSD consistently show heightened activity on the right side of their brain, specifically in the temporal lobe area. Find out what this implies.
Read MoreEarlier this month, the United States Army posted an article on their website featuring Rapid Resolution Therapy as an alternative trauma therapy treatment for soldiers experiencing combat PTSD.
Read MoreWe have completed the Rapid Resolution Therapy online introductory course for mental health professionals. The educational videos are divided up into four 15-minute segments that give you an overview of the Rapid Resolution Therapy method. If you are a mental health professional who wants to learn more about Rapid Resolution Therapy, this free course is for you. Email me at armstronglpc@gmail.com to receive your password to watch the course! Thanks, Courtney Armstrong, LPC
Read MoreTeaching emotional regulation skills seems especially relevant for people who have suffered multiple traumas, as they never really learned how to naturally regulate emotions. Instead they may have used substances, self-injury, sex, shopping, or other compulsive behaviors to regulate distress. Even after we’ve cleared a trauma, they may still not have a good handle on how to cope with other stressors. A recent study by Cloitre and colleagues validates this.
Read MoreDid you know that you don’t have to use EMDR or painful exposure techniques to clear the emotional charge of a traumatic memory? All that is required is keeping the client “emotionally present” as they are describing the details of the event.
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Read MoreCassie opened her eyes and tearfully smiled as she said, “I thought I was full of darkness. But now I realize you are right, I AM the Sunshine! My grandfather saw that in me. I am not those things my mom said about me. I am the Light and can chase old shadows away.” I teared up too as I watched her entire countenance change and she got up to give me a big hug.
Read MoreCassie opened her eyes and tearfully smiled as she said, “I thought I was full of darkness. But now I realize you are right, I AM the Sunshine! My grandfather saw that in me. I am not those things my mom said about me. I am the Light and can chase old shadows away.” I teared up too as I watched her entire countenance change and she got up to give me a big hug.
Read MoreRoss replied in his best German accent, “You vill allow me to insert dis needle into your arm and you vill like it, tiny Frenchman! When we are done, I vill give you a delicious strudel, and you vill like dis too.”
Read MoreDonna said she was delighted with her yellow canary. Not only was the process of breathing and imagining the canary keeping her claustrophobia at bay, but it also helped her stop smoking!
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