Therapy That's Worked For Complex Ptsd

[shimmerz]

Shamanism, meridian work, etheric body work has worked tremendously for me. Words cannot describe - especially with pre-verbal trauma and complex trauma. I truly believe the soul retrieval process, being able to go in and out of altered states at will, taught me to have control and a deep understanding of of how to get out of dissociative states. Words, for me, just confused things which is why I think anything that includes talk therapy only without addressing the 'energy' component are decades worth of chatter that can just aggravate and confuse the issues. Just my take.

 

[zaniara]

My therapist is 'step one' psycho-dynamic therapist, a 'step two' CBT therapist, and also is a certified EMDR-therapist and have studied schema therapy too. He uses a lot of different tools, but I think the schema therapy in combination with CBT are the tools that have been the most powerful ones, and they helped with building a strong relationship between us: and then I haven't been able to connect that much to almost any other person in my life except my abusers. Without that strong relationship and bond I wouldn't have been able to process the trauma without crashing. (For processing the traumas EMDR has been extremely effective and powerful. But it's hard to cope with it, and I think you need a strong therapeutic relationship in order to benefit from it. At least I did.)

He also is very creative in is attempt to ground me and break my dissociation. Among other things he can use touch, which I'm very grateful for, because otherwise I think some situations would have ended badly. But I also go to physiotherapy with a physiotherapist who is expert on psychological problems, and that helps too.

 

[shimmerz]

@zaniara a physiotherapist who is expert in psychological problems! That is brilliant! May I ask how that works? I am a firm believer that the body plays a very large piece in holding our blockages and would be so interested in this.