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Online Personal Therapy

One-on-one sessions focused on your unique healing process through our counseling.

Online Group Therapy

Connect with other individuals who understand your experience and can share important tips.

Sessions designed to rebuild trust and improve family bonds. That is an efficient way to recover from trauma.

Family Therapy

Questions that are commonly asked

Do I have post-traumatic stress disorder? Should I ask for psychological help?

The same experience is lived by each of us in a different way. The same fact acquires nuances, awakens different feelings in each of us and that makes us read it in a unique and personal way. Traumatized people feel that the wound or wounds from the past cause them pain in the present and cloud their construction of a future.

When should you go to a guide or counselor after suffering a trauma?

That is very linked to time. The acute phase of a traumatic situation can last up to three months and, therefore, the person may have many reactions during that period (difficulty sleeping, always having that image in front of them, not being able to concentrate, sweating, irritability...). He will even avoid going to places or seeing people that remind him of what he experienced. But after that time, if it has not been possible to deal with the situation in an adaptive way, we will find ourselves with a true post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

We can say that our brain has a natural capacity to process information in an adaptive way, what happens is that in these situations this natural capacity is blocked, even by the hormonal secretions that are produced at that moment of strong stress, and as a consequence of all this, a negative emotion is generated that is accompanied by a negative belief towards oneself such as "I can't", "I don't know how to take care of myself", "I am weak", "I am worthless", "I will never achieve it"...

The objective of the therapy is to produce this unblocking, so that the emotions begin to flow and all that emotional load of anger, pain, discomfort, sadness... begins to desensitize and thus reduces the negative emotion, allowing us to eliminate that negative belief about oneself that the situation has produced and subsequently transform it into a positive and adaptive belief.

What psychological therapies are appropriate?

There are different psychotherapeutic approaches, but they stand out among the most effective and fastest and that we practice in our psychology center:

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) where through bilateral stimulation of the two cerebral hemispheres, through the movement of the eyes from right to left, similar to what happens in the REM phase of sleep, the natural information processing system is quickly unlocked and reactivated, thus allowing the situation to be assimilated in an adaptive way. This is achieved by integrating the more emotional right side with the more cognitive left side, which is what gives meaning to the experience.

Through a protocol that is divided into 8 phases, Desensitization is achieved, that is, reducing disturbance and discomfort, and Reprocessing, that is, working on the understanding of that traumatic memory, changing the associated negative beliefs, with more adaptive ones that help the person both in the present and in the future.

Brief Strategic Therapy, where through prescriptions such as the Trauma Novel, the narrative is fostered that allows emotions to flow, desensitization to begin and thereby favor the elaboration of the traumatic situation. With this treatment, the person is helped to leave the past in the past and to re-appropriate the present. As J.W. Gohete said, “writing history is a way of getting rid of the past.”

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Tips to overcome a traumatic situation

In the event that trauma is experienced, one of the suggestions is to talk to someone, to have support from others, because when we are immersed in that state we need someone from outside to accompany us, help us and listen to us. It is important to talk about it because this is how you achieve the process of putting sensations, emotions and thoughts into words and building the narrative.

Trying to voluntarily forget what happened instead of helping is making the situation worse, because the more we try to forget something, the more we remember it. The person accompanied by a psychologist must gradually remember the traumatic event or situations in order to elaborate them. The best tool is to write the novel of trauma because as Hugo Ojetti said: “he who describes his own pain, even if he cries, is about to be consoled.”

Another important thing is to try to resume the same rhythms and try to get back to normal.

Manage well the treacherous doubts and negative thoughts that come to us naturally: “if I had done this or that…”, “If I had not…”, “If I had been able to foresee it…”.

It is important to realize that there are things that do not depend on us. There are things we can change and things we can't.

We know that the past cannot be changed but what we can do is change the perception of that past. Change our way of seeing what happened and see it in a more distant way. Where that strong discomfort no longer occurs, it is recognized that it has been a painful experience but it can be seen in a more constructive way, especially for oneself. In short, and to conclude with the words of our teacher Giorgio Nardone: The only way to free yourself from pain is to have the courage to go through the middle.