{"id":5510,"date":"2013-03-13T10:29:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T14:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccpa.scottbuckingham.ca\/blog\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2013-03-13T10:29:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T14:29:24","slug":"emerging-field-of-psychotraumatology-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/emerging-field-of-psychotraumatology-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Field of Psychotraumatology in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trauma Counselling \u2013 Depth Levels of Conversation<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In my last article, I provided brief descriptors of the first 3 levels of conversation \u2013 formal operations, contact maintenance and standard conversations.\u00a0 In this article, I present brief descriptors of the last two, and what I consider are, the ultimate goal and true depth levels of therapeutic conversations:\u00a0 Level 4 \u2013 Critical Occasions and Level 5 \u2013 Intimacy essential to achieve with survivors of traumatic lifetime events (TLE) towards healing and wholeness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Level 4 \u2013 Critical Occasions<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 are essential conditions to meet for significant life-change and growth and implies that the client is both accessible to work and seeks to truly express the impact and depth of their inner experiencing.\u00a0 The therapist genuinely and willingly joins the client in this degree of depth conversation.\u00a0 Critical attention is provided to the revisiting of particular and significant times, relationships and conversations that made a difference, sometimes referred to as a crisis turning point <\/strong>or that moment in time when the stage was set within a sequence of events where one\u2019s future outcomes were influenced [duly or unduly] in a significant way.\u00a0 Conversation at this depth level results in genuine changes in words, thoughts, feelings and acts of both participants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This depth of client and therapist conversation is a highly desirable state of emotional investment where the client revisits the impact and a difference in one\u2019s sense of being follows.\u00a0 Emotionality is in the moment and there are candid descriptors of past and present, inner experience with self-questioning.\u00a0 The client\u2019s focus and concern is upon expression of their inner experience and the talk varies in form, tempo and emotional toning.\u00a0 Typically, this depth of talk is prompt where fluid clusters of percepts emerge with slight hesitancy noted with the new material coming into consciousness.\u00a0 At this point, the therapist is not forgotten, but part of the background, while the client accesses deep states of inner awareness.\u00a0 The client\u2019s use of adjectives and adverbs expressed at this time conveys the texture and colors of their inner experiencing which may be enhanced by the use of exclamations, slang, profane or obscene remarks.\u00a0 Typically, body posture is relaxed and open, and one\u2019s body language changes in keeping with the emerging emotions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, intense immersion and overt behaviors ranging from rigidity to utter limpness or physical contortions visible in one\u2019s face or body may also occur.\u00a0 The client is on the expressive side of their presence, their accessible and attention is somewhat reduced for they are strongly focused on inner flow.\u00a0 <\/strong>This is the place of change potential<\/strong> or cross-roads talk where participants emerge with a difference in perspective, attitude, or emotion.\u00a0 This is a powerful plane where repeated returns to a word, topic, feeling or phase occur without conscious awareness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In these moments, the client may be unable to recall something particular, there can be abrupt switches of topics or feelings, a loss of one\u2019s train of thought with a felt sense presents of either physical restless or unusual immobility.<\/p>\n

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Level 5 \u2013 Intimacy<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 the participants are at maximum accessibility and\/or expressiveness relating and the focus is on expression of the inner experience with little concern on image.\u00a0 This deep conversation space is intensely emotional, and the raw, naked truth of containing disclosures concerning sensuality, sexuality, nudity and intercourse emerge to reveal secret qualities experienced during private human interactions.\u00a0 Therapeutic intervals of genuine intimate conversations are necessary for depth confrontation and major life change.<\/p>\n

The participants are readily receptive, sensing is maximal and intuition is fully engaged.\u00a0 They can be instances where extrasensory perception or telepathy occurs.\u00a0 This place of mutuality of intimacy is a distinguishing feature that can take on different forms.\u00a0 The client is open and expressive of thoughts, feelings and inner processes.\u00a0 The therapist is less verbally open but maximally receptive of the client\u2019s experience which allows impact to be revealed and become evident to the client.\u00a0 In this place, the potential exists for confrontation of lifelong patterns and the hope for reorganization of one\u2019s way of being alive in one\u2019s lifestyle and circumstance plus one\u2019s vision for authentic being can be revealed.<\/p>\n

In moments of true intimacy, subjective being is vitally involved in inner recognition that has lasting consequences.\u00a0 The awareness that \u2018one knows\u2019 but had \u2018not let the self-know\u2019 is that\u00a0 awareness of a larger, enlarged \u2018inner\u2019 vision referred to as the healing \u2013 growth dynamic<\/strong> that exists and is difficult to reduce and explain utilizing words.\u00a0 Very close emotionality is achieved and noted in mind-body-spirit connections with movement towards each other and a place where physical touch may or may not occur.\u00a0 This place of true intimacy is an explosive exchange of charges and confrontations that results in new awareness of inner processes and emotions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Intimate conversation is a place of immediate experience of deep sharing that is not a lasting condition of relating as these moments come and end.\u00a0 I refer to these priceless moments of depth connection as megamomentaries for the self and the other are empathetically embraced in a flash of relational loving-kindness that is truly redemptive at the seat of the soul.<\/p>\n

Author:\u00a0 Dr. Linda AK Thompson, PsyD, CCC, FAAETS\u00a0\u00a0\ufffd
\nOwner, Matrix of Trauma (\u00a9 MOT \u2122):\u00a0 Research, Advocacy, Healing<\/p>\n

References<\/span>:<\/p>\n

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  1. Shadow Psychology: <\/em>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shadow<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Thompson, Linda A.K. (1996).\u00a0 The Matrix of Trauma:\u00a0 A dissertation \u2013 partial fulfilment for requirements for degree of doctor of psychological traumatology in psychological assessments and etymology.\u00a0 \u00a9 <\/em>Unpublished\/Sealed.\u00a0 Summit University of Louisiana, New Orleans:\u00a0 Louisiana.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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