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    What is the best way to recover from childhood trauma?

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    Becuase my childhood was traumatic and my mother unstable, when I see other people whom elicit these similar traits, my body becomes distressed and its difficult to get out of it. How best to treat this?
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  • Ivan Bakich

    Clinical Psychologist, Counsellor, Hypnotherapist, Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Sex Therapist

    I work in the area of Clinical Psychology including Testing, Intellectual Assessments and Basic Neuropsychological Assessments. I am also a Psychotherapist, Marital/Couples and Family Therapist, … View Profile

    You would possibly benefit from CBT including exposure, desensitisation and reprocessing. EMDR could help for you to put away memories of trauma which are triggered off by external stimuli - seeing other persons who remind you of trauma. “Inner child” work and hypnosis would be potentially beneficial to you because it is the young child who needs to heal past wounds. I use hypnosis to process traumatic experiences and to build up the patient, that is, help them grow, develop - using therapeutic metaphors. In treating trauma it is necessary to treat the whole person; not only the symptoms - if one is to engender positive healthy change.

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    Monica Schweickle

    Clinical Psychologist, Psychologist

    Monica is a caring clinical psychologist with an interest in recovery from addictions, low self-esteem, social phobia, generalised anxiety disorder, perfectionism, post-traumatic stress disorder, child … View Profile

    Hello,

    Cognitive therapy incorporating mindfulness meditation might be of assistance to you. Mindfulness is a form of meditation which can be used to help you connect with the here and now, and respond differently rather than react automatically to unhelpful thought processes or body sensations. Many of my clients who are survivors of childhood trauma benefit mindfulness-based treatment. Mindfulness meditation can help improve self-awareness, impulse control and the ability to discriminate between memories of the past and the current situation as you find it.
     
    Best of luck,

    Monica

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