Choosing the right trauma therapist for you is vitally important: Traumatizing events can have a one-two punch: First you have a shock recorded in the body on all levels; if the shock cannot be understood or assimilated at the time it happens, it is stored in the nervous system, organs or tissues or the body until it can be processed. For most people, many traumatizing events cause lingering emotional and physical problems because they were dismissed or forgotten but they are still affecting your life. Not all therapists offer techniques that move stuck emotions and traumas out of the body. It’s also important not to be re-traumatized in the process of clearing the original event.
Traditional “talk therapy” can be extremely helpful in helping you identify blocks to your progress, but often it cannot help you to clear trauma out of the body because talking by itself does not resolve trauma. Psychologist Peter Levine in his book “Waking the Tiger” was the first to observe many years ago, that traumatizing events MUST be released from the body in order to stop creating problems like insomnia and hypervigilance and a host of other issues.