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What’s So Complex about Complex Trauma?  Phase One

May 29, 2020June 5, 2020 Thomas Zimmerman

A Simple and Metaphor-Guided View of Working with Complex Trauma using EMDR Phase One of EMDR therapy is an important part of the recovery process.  It is often the point where a new client meets his new therapist.  First impressions … Continue reading What’s So Complex about Complex Trauma?  Phase One

Developmental Trauma, Doing Therapy, EMDR, Invisibility4 Comments

Unwanted Embodiment

July 5, 2018July 5, 2018 Thomas Zimmerman

If I had a talent when I was young, it was going away.  Retreating deeper into that space that doesn’t have a name.  If I have any talents now, they have grown from what I learned by being alert and … Continue reading Unwanted Embodiment

Culture and Trauma, Doing Therapy, Things Not To Do6 Comments

The Ethics of Not Treating Trauma

July 3, 2018July 4, 2018 Thomas Zimmerman

We are entering a new era of trauma awareness.  We are just starting to be able to make visible the central role that trauma plays in human development, physical health, and in relationships of all types.  We are recognizing that … Continue reading The Ethics of Not Treating Trauma

Doing Therapy, Invisibility, Newbie Lessons2 Comments

“That Which Does Not Kill Us” And Related Lies

July 1, 2018August 11, 2018 Thomas Zimmerman

That Which Doesn’t Kills Us, Makes Us Stronger –Nietzsche In our age of growing trauma awareness, the resilience movement has a core conceptual problem.  Resilience, when it comes to someone who has been traumatized, arrives as a functioning of healing. … Continue reading “That Which Does Not Kill Us” And Related Lies

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Dancing Around the Unspeakable at Intake

April 28, 2018April 29, 2018 Thomas Zimmerman

“Have you ever been emotionally, physically, or sexually abused?”  It’s a standard intake question asked tens of thousands of times a day as part of mental health assessments all across the country.  At the beginning of my career I asked … Continue reading Dancing Around the Unspeakable at Intake

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Regarding the Trauma of Others

April 14, 2018March 26, 2019 Thomas Zimmerman

All memory is individual, unreproducible – it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that … Continue reading Regarding the Trauma of Others

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If You Chase It, It Will Run

March 28, 2018April 27, 2018 Thomas Zimmerman

EMDR Therapy reprocessing involves three central components: you activate a traumatic memory, notice what comes up as you interact with the memory, and you do this while your brain receives a left-right stimulation.  Noticing is the bright yellow line in … Continue reading If You Chase It, It Will Run

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Bypasses in EMDR Therapy

October 8, 2017October 8, 2017 Thomas Zimmerman

Noticing is the bright yellow line in the center of the road of EMDR Therapy.  A client that struggles or resists noticing is unlikely to move efficiently in the direction of healing.  But, noticing sucks for most people with trauma.  … Continue reading Bypasses in EMDR Therapy

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Post-Traumatic Growth

August 17, 2017August 17, 2017 Thomas Zimmerman

There is a strange place in post-traumatic growth–after most of the hard work is done–that gratitude may start to settle into. Not gratitude just for having survived it. Or, having recovered from it. Gratitude for having experienced it. That emotion … Continue reading Post-Traumatic Growth

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Disclosure in Trauma Work

May 14, 2017May 17, 2017 Thomas Zimmerman

It’s completely normal for life to break your heart.  It will happen.  We all got here when a bottom fell out and everything that we knew fell out with us into some vast space that we never anticipated inhabiting.  And, … Continue reading Disclosure in Trauma Work

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