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Phone: 213- 427- 9471 Email: carol@mtcwc.com Los Angeles, CA 90004 |
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Trauma Touch Therapy ™ reconnects you. What is Trauma? Trauma can be any event that overwhelms the normal capacity to cope. |
Trauma Touch Therapy helps you re-connect. Trauma Touch Therapy clients learn how to experience safe touch. The work includes a variety of non-touch modalities to help people work up to experiencing touch. Clients learn to pace the work - and their lives - to avoid reliving traumatizing events. Clients learn to create experiences in which they get help to care for themselves in ways that were not possible at the time of trauma. Over time, clients report that “flashes” fade and lessen their emotional hold. Health often improves as emotions stabilize.
Trauma Touch Therapy ™ clients create a container for this work by scheduling 10 weekly sessions. |
Trauma Needs a Way Out! |
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What Might Traumatize People? Invasive surgery
most people experience post traumatic stress symptoms.
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Trauma Touch Therapy ™ is an important adjunct to talk therapy. Scant information is stored in the brain in the usual way during a traumatic event, because sensory organs and circuits are jammed with incoming sights, sounds, smells, tastes and contact. That information lives on in the body. The body remembers, says traumatologist, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. The body is a source of considerable information about dislodging the effects of trauma. Without body-centered intervention, the thinking brain just spins its wheels in a futile attempt to talk about and understand the trauma. Most people benefit from guidance, such as Trauma Touch Therapy ™ and other body-centered approaches*, to access the body's simple messages - without reliving the trauma! Trauma Touch Therapy ™ helps people use their body as a resource to cope with the intrusive, often debilitating, influences of trauma by inviting them to
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Trauma Touch Therapy ™ helps people with a variety of trauma histories. It interfaces with - but is not a substitute for - counseling. If you don't live near Los Angeles, Colorado School of Healing Arts may help you locate a local Trauma Touch Therapist ™. •Stephanie Mines, Pat Ogden, Belleruth Naparstek and Peter A. Levine are practitioners who have also created body-centered approaches to trauma recovery. |
Return to Your Senses Handbook is a body-centered guide for |
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Return to Your Senses Handbook adds structure to the often chaotic process of post traumatic recovery. It helps people integrate body-centered approaches with psychotherapy or counseling. It also provides a format for workshops that introduce talk therapists, massage therapists, caregivers and other health care professionals to a body centered approach for trauma care. To purchase, see Return to Your Senses. |
With or without obvious physical injury, the impact of trauma may leave a person with indelible “flashes” of the event that are disconnected from a story of the event that makes sense.
Trauma may disconnect people from sensory awareness and appropriate emotional responses.
Traumatic events can take your breath away, knock you off your energetic ground and leave you dull or in a state of heightened alertness.
Long after the event is past, these disconnections subconsciously interfere with activity, health, sleep and/or relationships.
Imagine that trauma is an unwanted force that lodges in the body and triggers knee-jerk reactions. For instance, many people report that a doctor's exam, dental work, intimate contact or massage elicits anxiety and/or a defensive reaction. They may rigidly bear up, "numb out" or avoid the above situations.
Despite a person's best efforts to over-ride these post traumatic reactions, few new responses are possible until the affected person shifts the entrenched traumatic force.
Experiencing or witnessing a crime or traumatic event
Physical, mental, emotional and/or sexual abuse
War; imprisonment
Natural disasters