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Trauma Care
Working with Trauma
Áine uses Craniosacral and Psychotherapy when working with people who carry a degree of traumatisation.
Traumatisation, sometimes referred to as Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome or PTSD, occurs when people are overwhelmed by shock. This can be a result of a one-off experience, for example a car accident, a bomb blast, or a consequence of repeated incidents such as physical or sexual abuse (childhood abuse, domestic violence, rape). There is too much for someone to cope with and adaptive mechanisms come into play. People usually seek treatment because these important protective mechanisms have, in turn, become limiting in, for example, intimate relationships or medical procedures.
They include:freezing with fear or dread, often for no apparent reasonbecoming dreamy and spacey, emotionally indifferent or flatbeing uncomfortable in and with one’s body often to the point of having no sense of it, feeling detachedbeing over-ready to argue, fight off others, defend oneself against attack when none was intendedchronic illness, aches and painsdisproportionate distress during medical procedures which can be experienced as invasive or abusive
This work requires a particular approach. Áine draws on the work of Dr. Peter Levine, Franklyn Sills and Babette Rothschild. She sees many clients who have already tried other treatments which have not worked because the way the trauma is held has not been addressed.
On the Craniosacral Therapy page Áine mentioned the importance of carefully negotiated touch with those who have experienced abusive contact. But there are also times when touch is inappropriate. She is able to draw on a repertoire of ways of relating to each individual client according to their needs.
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Áine Collins
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