Children who have experienced complex trauma can display challenging behaviours that can be difficult to understand and manage. These behaviours often result from early developmental trauma, such as experiencing abuse and/or neglect within their primary attachment...
Definitions of trauma Within the therapeutic professional community, our understanding of trauma has progressed dramatically in the last 20 years. The likes of Gabor Mate, Dan Siegal and Bessel van der Kolk have deeply enriched our understanding of how trauma...
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio (pexels.com) EMDR and PTSD Research from King’s College London (2019)1 found that 31% of young people in England and Wales had experienced a traumatic experience during their childhood. In addition, those exposed to trauma were...
It was about 10 years ago when I first heard, in passing, of a new therapy for psychological trauma which sounded more than a little strange. As far as I could understand, the main principles were that you waggled your fingers in front of your client’s face...