How the Symptoms of PTSD and C-PTSD Play out in Relationships
- How adult clients import old childhood pain into new relationships
- Neuroception: Picking Up on Subtle Relational Signals
- How trauma gets “frozen” in the nervous system
- Fight/Flight: The Shutting Down of the Thinking/Reasoning Mind
- Letting the body have a voice
Role Plays and Other Therapeutic Experiences for Processing Old Wounds
- Discerning who to use these techniques with in individual or group work
- Psychodrama and Sociometrics for adjunct therapeutic intervention
- Use “Doubling” to give voice to unconscious feelings and uncover blocked emotions
- Role reversal exercises to gain new perspectives and foster empathy
- Floor check process for self-regulation and co-regulation
- Experiential letter writing – allow clients to express themselves
- Adapting interventions for telehealth delivery
- Utilize the resilience timeline to consolidate progress and celebrate strengths
- Mobilizing the Social Engagement System
- Using Floor Checks for relational trauma psychoeducation and self-discovery
- Skills to elevate unconscious pain and anger to a conscious level
- Utilizing supportive group work to develop emotional literacy
- Processing triggered feelings without going numb, imploding, or exploding
- How trauma creates a fragmented self
- Dyadic interactions: how people internalize relational trauma
- How to use the Attachment Timeline Intervention to:
- Explore how past experiences impact your clients’ lives and relationships
- Develop new copings skills and strategies for managing symptoms
- Using the timeline with other techniques to integrate relational rupture experiences
- Mapping perceived roles in familial and desired relationships
- Measuring changes in clients’ relational lives
- How the “social atom” helps us understand transference
- Diagrams and writing exercises as warm-ups for psychodrama


