Completed it, defeated it

I recently returned from the Level 1 training in Clinical Hypnosis with Rapid Trauma Resolution.  Upon my return I had a conversation with Holly Craig, LPC who had also attended the training.  At some point we began to discuss how therapists can be traumatized just by hearing the trauma that their clients have survived.  In fact I have heard from numerous clients how previous therapists had glazed over their trauma, sat there as if in shock, or just offered them pamphlets about such trauma.  To which Holly had this to say: "The thing that they survived isn't bigger than what you can do with it.  It's not even happening to them any more."And that's so true. 
For one the client sitting in front of you has survived that traumatic event.  Not only survived it but made it into your office.  It is in no way helpful to become upset ourselves, as therapists, about what happened to them.  Clients have told me that therapists getting upset over what they have survived isn't helpful.  They find it upsetting and they loose trust in the professional whom they came to for help. 
In Rapid Resolution Therapy we learn to stay present with the client, create a deep connection, and understanding, so that we can effectively, painlessly, and quickly resolve the negative effects of the trauma that the client has been through.  In doing so the RRT session will have a much bigger, and positive impact upon your client than the very thing they survived. 
So when they leave they will have completed it and defeated it! 

Tara- Executive Director of the Institute for Survivors of Sexual Violence™ Pin It