What to expect during your EMDR session
DR. ESSLIN TERRIGHENA shares what to expect in your EMDR sessions. Often, we go to therapy because we have been grappling with an issue...
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How does EMDR help us heal from Trauma?
DR. ESSLIN TERRIGHENA explains what EMDR Therapy is and how it helps us to process Trauma in a healthy way. EMDR Therapy, or Eye Movement...
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How can Trauma Therapy reduce our Physical Trauma Reactions?
DR. ESSLIN TERRIGHENA explains how Trauma Therapy can reduce our physical trauma responses. Trauma therapy tackles trauma and its effects...
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How can Trauma Therapy reduce our Negative Thoughts
DR. ESSLIN TERRIGHENA explains how Trauma Therapy can help to reduce our negative trauma beliefs. Trauma therapy tackles trauma and its...
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How Can Trauma Therapy Reduce our Distress
DR. ESSLIN TERRIGHENA explains how Trauma Therapy can reduce our emotional distress after a traumatic experience. Trauma therapy tackles...
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Our Brain on Trauma: What Happens in Survival Mode?
DR. ESSLIN TERRIGHENA explains how trauma impacts our brains. When we experience a traumatic event, our coping abilities become...
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Safety: The Antidote to Anxiety
Hong Kong is going through a time of uncertainty and confusion. Will we be going into lockdown? Will we be separated from our families?...
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Trauma - The Aftermath of the Peel Street Car Collision
The recent tragedy of the car collision on the corner of Peel and Staunton Street has left many of us shaken and traumatized. Trauma is...
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How Media & News can Trigger Trauma in Us
The internet has made the world smaller: Now, tragic incidents that occur halfway across the globe are easily accessible through news...
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Attachment Wounds - How Emotional Trauma Impacts Us
Childhood trauma can also bring about persistent attachment wounds. The type of traumatic experiences that result in attachment wounds...
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What are Trauma Wounds and How Do they Affect us?
When we think of childhood trauma, we most commonly think of physical danger. A lack of safety and a threat to survival can take the form...
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Trauma in Adulthood
Despite having built greater coping resources in adulthood, we can still experience distressing events that overwhelm our coping and...
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What is Childhood Trauma? Why Does it Matter?
Events in childhood that threaten our physical or emotional safety are likely to outweigh our coping resources and overwhelm us, leaving...
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What is Post-traumatic Stress Disorder?
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is a clinical disorder triggered by exposure to a traumatic life-threatening event. More specifically,...
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What category does your trauma experience fall into?
Traumatic events and subsequent trauma can be placed into three over-arching categories. Acute trauma refers to direct or vicarious...
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What is little t trauma?
Little t trauma results from traumatic experiences that are highly distressing and disruptive without being physically life-threatening....
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What is Big T Trauma?
Big T Trauma results from traumatic experiences that we most commonly associate with the word trauma. These can include severe...
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Fight-Flight-Freeze
When we experience a traumatic event, our fight-flight-freeze system gets activated. In other words, our bodies recognize the threat to...
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Three Key Benefits of Processing Trauma
1. Changes are tangible: Often we are stuck in unhelpful patterns that prevent us from meeting our true needs or our goals. Many of these...
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How does Therapy help Trauma?
Both Big T and little t can be effectively resolved through trauma-specific therapy. We cannot solely “think” our way out of trauma as...