How to Resolve PTSD
Have you ever wondered whether PTSD ever goes away or if it can be cured? I like to use the term "resolution" instead of cure because...
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Antonieta Contreras
- Feb 5, 2021
- 1 min
Can EMDR make some patients worse?
The key element for EMDR to be effective is to “activate” the emotions from the past. This activation normally opens a can of worms. If...
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Antonieta Contreras
- Sep 10, 2020
- 3 min
What is IFS (Internal Family System) therapy?
IFS it’s revolutionary as a philosophy, it’s effective as a regulation tool, and it’s challenging as a processing tool.
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Antonieta Contreras
- Sep 4, 2020
- 3 min
What is the most effective therapy for trauma?
There is no one therapy that encompasses all the aspects that need to be included in trauma treatment since there is no such thing as a...
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Antonieta Contreras
- Aug 31, 2020
- 3 min
What Is The Most Effective Therapy for Trauma?
There is no one therapy that encompasses all the aspects that need to be included in trauma treatment since there is no such thing as a moda
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Antonieta Contreras
- Aug 30, 2020
- 3 min
Is Polyvagal Therapy Helpful?
There is no such thing as “Polyvagal Therapy.”
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Antonieta Contreras
- Aug 29, 2020
- 4 min
How Soon Can a Person do EMDR in Therapy After a Traumatic Event?
EMDR could be done right after the traumatic event using a specific protocol for those events.
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Antonieta Contreras
- Aug 28, 2020
- 2 min
If You Don’t Control your Fear, Will Your Fear Control You?
Emotions, in general, have the purpose of motivating us to act or to avoid certain situations.
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Antonieta Contreras
- Aug 27, 2020
- 2 min
What's A Safe Space In Therapy?
The main idea in therapy is to provide healing experiences to the client that aim to repair or to provide something missing.
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Antonieta Contreras
- Aug 20, 2020
- 6 min
How Do You Find Out If You Have C-PTSD?
To really find out whether —or in which ways— you were hurt by having been exposed to toxic stress for a prolonged period of your life is a
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Antonieta Contreras
- Aug 17, 2020
- 2 min
In what ways can a therapist or counselor re-traumatize a client?
If the client reactivates emotions and/or memories by feeling them as they happened during the traumatization..
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