Does anyone have experiences relating REBT treating trauma

[abovedown]

Has anyone used REBT therapy or help help book treating trauma? is the therapy model much different from act or cbt? Was it helpful or not-helpful in your case?

 

[Friday]

Rational Emotive therapy was HUGELY helpful to me life-wise & me-wise. Mad skills. Made me a MUCH better person, more the person I wanted to be.

I’ve never used it -specifically- on trauma.

Because I learned it back before I knew “this” was trauma & PTSD; I thought “this” was just who I was now, the cost of doing business; and I didn’t like it, so I set about changing it.

ma? is the therapy model much different from act or cbt?

It’s very action based… but also contains elements/wide swaths of both.

For example?
>>> How do you connect with what you value?
>>> How do you build/find self worth?
>>> How do you build a sense of self-worth?

My posts in these interrelated threads are very REBT. In that it’s not enough to WHY my sense of self, identity, self worth, core values, etc. are completely f*cked up (trauma in a nutshell, creating lasting & pervasive change); or the pieces that feed into it (cognitive distortions, core beliefs, lessons learned in trauma, etc.); etc. etc. etc. Knowing? Useful. Understanding? Useful. Recognising patterns? Useful. Challenging distortions? Useful. Acceptance & Determination? Useful. …but… for myself, anyhow, incomplete.

I need action AND awareness.

For the better part of 15-20 years I didn’t touch my trauma history with a ten foot pole. Zero trauma processing, except for what happened on accident. I still got my symptoms down to almost nil, and my life was amaaaaaaazing, for over a decade. REBT was a big part of that.


ETA… Whilst I used value, self worth, & identity as examples above? It’s because how I tackled them is very REBT, rather than REBT is limited to, or focuses on, those areas. REBT focuses on anything/everything.

 

[Freddyt]

For me - a lot of that gets worked out in "talk therapy" sessions. Because we need something to do when I'm overloaded with other stuff AND, if we are not talking trauma, there's not a lot of my life we can talk about....

Pretty basically my T works with all the tools they can - because it's all part of leading me to answers.

Answers and awareness....there's a lot of learning that should have been done earlier in my life that didn't happen because well - trauma.

Most of the "How do you....?" are things that living in panic never allowed me to learn or figure out....