Category : Trauma & Family Systems

The Addict that Lacks "Emotional Maturity"


About the author: The focus for Gail Echeverria is primarily on education not just for the addicts, but their families as...

Gail L. Echeverria, LAADC,...
17 Jun, 2022

Working with Complex Trauma


Trauma can be described as an overwhelming event that provokes terror, fear for your life or the life of others. ...

Dr. Joanne Barron and Dr....
29 Dec, 2021

Reversing the Ratio: A Formula for Teenager...


Intense kids elicit negative attention.  Full stop.  It’s no one’s fault, it is just the reality. “Stop that!”,...

Russell Rice, MFT
08 Jul, 2020

Understanding Trauma and Substance Abuse


Trauma can be a difficult subject to understand. To put it simply, trauma is a specific psychological or emotional response...

Matt Boyle
28 Sep, 2018

From the Frontlines - Brief Counseling in...


I typically wake up at 4:00am each day to go to the gym, but on the morning of January 9, 2018, I was already stirring at...

Christina Kelley, ACSW, ...
08 Mar, 2018

Learning and Growing from Our Past


So many of are plagued by painful past experiences. Regardless of what happened, we can find ourselves stuck in the past....

Allen Berger, Ph.D.
26 Feb, 2017

Living In The Shadow


There is no question that speaking up about sexual abuse is paramount to healing.  As a licensed therapist, I started a...

Carol Teitelbaum
12 Jan, 2015

RELATIONAL TRAUMA REPAIR (RTR)


When it comes to treating trauma, the body needs to be involved for full feeling and healing to occur. Simply moving the...

TIAN DAYTON, MA, PH.D.,T.E.P
14 Nov, 2014

Meditation: Healing the Scars from Child Abuse,...


Meditation saved my life. My father, Richard North, died in a Navy jet test flight crash when I was six years old.  ...

Tom North
14 Nov, 2014

Why Trauma Isn’t the Problem


The title of this article may shock you, especially when you realize that I am considered a trauma expert in many circles,...

Jamie Marich
02 Jun, 2014

ACoAs and Intimacy: How Childhood Trauma Gets...


ACOoAs and Intimacy: How Childhood Trauma Gets Triggered by Adult Relationships By Tian Dayton PhD – Excerpted from The...

TIAN DAYTON, MA, PH.D.,T.E.P
30 Oct, 2013

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