Linda Thai: Strategies For Trauma Stabilization - Academy of Therapy Wisdom

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In this segment, join Linda Thai as she delves into the intricate journey of healing and recovery (#freetraining webinar: therapywisdom....)
Linda shares insights into the sensory awareness embedded in implicit memory, likening them to trauma-related cues. Through compassionate listening and empathetic understanding, Linda navigates the delicate balance of holding space with clients, facilitating sensory satiation, and preventing sensory overwhelm and burnout.
Explore the challenges of developing a working alliance with clients who have endured significant interpersonal traumatization at the hands of caregivers. Linda sheds light on the complexities of navigating competing needs and adaptations for survival, where clients grapple with conflicting desires for control.
Video transcript:
Linda-
Between 5 and 15 % of individuals have a sensory processing disorder. And we all have sensory profiles. And many of us also experience sensory processing differences and challenges that don't fill the diagnostic category of a disorder. And yet we have challenges and differences. ADHDers have 50 % of ADHDers have sensory processing disorder and 75 % of autistic folks. There's a high correlation between sensory processing disorder and anxiety disorder, given that sensory sensitivities put a child or an adult at risk of experiencing anxiety.
And there's a high correlation between post -traumatic stress disorder and secondary sensory processing disorder, meaning that traumatic memories become encoded as right? Sensory awarenesses that become embedded in implicit memory as like trauma related hashtags or trauma related cues. And so this is where I hold that space of I don't know with a client and yet to be able to meet, to meet the client, to facilitate sensory satiation and to prevent sensory overwhelm and burnout.
Developing a working alliance. So we have challenges here. And this is for working with complex developmental trauma, specifically that when there's been a lot of interpersonal traumatization at the hands of caregivers. Yeah. And so that's where we're working with competing needs, competing adaptations for survival. I want to flee, but I want to get close. I want to control you, in order to take care of you. I want to control you so that I can punish you.
And so we're actually holding space for long standing feelings of mistrust and betrayal where clients alternate right between parts or the adaptations within a part. Yeah, demanding, withdrawing, pleading for and rejecting, charming and defiance and ghosting, grandiosity and self loathing, entitled rage and helpless rage.
And this is where Janina Fish's TIST model can be ever so helpful. And I want to share with you the work of the drama triangle with the neglectful bystander and the unresolved wounds of the inner child, where we can get caught up in a client's drama triangle. Inadvertently, it happens to all of us. It's okay. And yet there can be four main patterns that are identified that Davies and Fraule identified specifically working with survivors of CSA, which can replicate itself in our therapy relationship. The unseeing, uninvolved parent and the unseeing neglected child, the sadistic abuser and the helplessly impotently enraged victim.

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Thank you Linda for sharing such valuable information.