Finding the right therapist for complex PTSD or dissociation

It's been a while since I've posted. I want to rectify that by sharing a recent experience I had with a couple of colleagues. I wanted to pass on a lesson from that for those seeking treatment. We were consulting on cases and I mentioned Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), which is on the extreme end … Continue reading Finding the right therapist for complex PTSD or dissociation

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If you need to see a counselor for PTSD, but don’t know if you can talk about it

This is a great question, and one that I get frequently. In the past, the way therapists were taught to deal with PTSD is to talk about it. They had the patient talk again and again and again about what happened, and over time the person would become desensitized and have more tolerance for their … Continue reading If you need to see a counselor for PTSD, but don’t know if you can talk about it