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Trauma therapy is a branch of psychotherapy that focuses on helping people who have experienced traumatic events such as physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, natural disasters, wars, accidents, and other forms of severe stress. The goal of trauma therapy is to help heal and recover from trauma, improve mental health and improve the quality of life of victims.
There are several evidence-based approaches that focus on trauma therapy. The approach I use is narrative-exposure therapy.
The peculiarity of narrative-exposure therapy is that this trauma therapy focuses not only on individual traumatic memories, but also primarily on the context of memories, restoring and rethinking them in the history of a lifetime. Working with autobiographical memories gives this therapy a unique place in trauma therapy. The client begins to recall where the event happened, when it happened, and how it happened, which is very important because post-traumatic disorders are memory disorders. Therefore, the consistent reconstruction of life events, both dramatic and pleasant, helps to process the trauma and give it new meanings.
Narrative-expository therapy provides an overview of the client’s life as a whole; everything is organized chronologically and visually represented on a life line. And at the end, we are working on a life history document that can serve as a kind of testimony and summary of the work done. Such a document provides a concrete understanding of the life story, with all its shocking but also pleasant moments.
This is a short-term therapy aimed at working through the main traumatic events of life. Usually, 15 sessions of 50-90 minutes each are enough. Upon completion, we can continue our work, but in the format of long-term therapy, if necessary.
Usually, the first meeting is an acquaintance and diagnosis, at the second we build your life line with key events, then gradually work through the most significant ones, and at the end we discuss the result of our work together and the future of your life.
