Trauma Informed Care

Trauma Informed Care seeks to:

  • Realize the widespread impact of trauma and understand paths for recovery

  • Recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma in patients, families, and staff

  • Integrate knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, and practices

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Trauma-Focused CBT for Youth with PTSD

Our clinician, Jaden, treats 9-18 year-olds via teletherapy. TF-CBT is an evidence-based treatment to address youth (ages 3-18 years) posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related difficulties. It is a components- and phase- based treatment that therapists provide individually and in parallel to youth and their parents or primary caregivers, with additional conjoint child-parent sessions. TF-CBT has been tested in 25 randomized controlled trials and many additional effectiveness studies around the world, with strong evidence of improving children’s PTSD and related difficulties in 8-25 sessions, for children of different genders, races, ethnicities, and who have experienced diverse types of traumas. Click here to learn more about TF-CBT.

 

Predictive Processing Flash

Flash was developed in 2017 by an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapist named Philip Manfield to remove some of the distress from a difficult memory before working on the memory in EMDR therapy. It was developed for clients with complex trauma as a stand-alone approach to healing, independent of EMDR. (Jaden does not do EMDR therapy.) Flash was designed to be less distressing than other therapies and is highly effective. It is possible to see a client fully resolve whatever memory is targeted in a single session. There are many versions of Flash and our clinician, Jaden, uses the version called Predictive Processing Flash.

Flash approaches generally have two defining components: (1) ultra-brief activation of an individual bad memory, (2) followed by many exposures to a positive experience. In this version of Flash, the positive experience is usually a compelling YouTube video that is viewed for 30 seconds at a time. The therapist directs attention away from the video for a half second by asking the client to blink or look somewhere other than the video every five seconds. After each attention diversion, the client simply returns to the positive experience video. The process repeats many times in one session. Click here to read more about Flash.