Re:Early-life stress can disrupt maturation of brain’s rewar...
by prox on Thursday March 02, 2023 @04:59AM
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This I agree with. I found someone who was bring into my awareness the difference between the old and new so I could viscerally feel it throughout my system, which made it complete and it felt truly like something had healed.
A typical therapist is almost zero-impact, you breeze through pre-prepared scripts and they nod and smile and you leave and back-pat and pay a bill. By typical, I mean in the center of the bell-curve. According to my lived experiences, and that of close friends.
A therapist with impact will sit and listen and smile, and then they'll simply repeat something you said or ask an innocent question or laugh, and this small gesture will cause a satori-like awareness of what was previously invisible to you.
I've never found a trauma-aware therapist incapable of reaching out and touching you deeply. This is the "I have rust on my resume, even if you don't code rust" of the therapist world.
[edit: If it needs to be said plainly, run like hell from any unlicensed practitioner who focuses on trauma.]