SOME EXPLANATIONS
COUNSELLING
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor Frankl
Counselling permits individuals and or groups to exchange thoughts about their feelings and difficulties encountered in a safe, trustworthy environment. The concept can be interpreted diversely, but it is a path persons may pursue when a need arises for change in their lives or merely discover their thoughts and emotional wellbeing in more intensity.
The purpose of a counsellor is not to instruct a person – but to encourage communication on troublesome issues, reveal any root or core causes and discover your explicit rational. The counsellor may then guide an individual towards an action plan (the way forward) to resolve concerns or assist with practical applicable toolsets in managing the issues.
No two people are alike, creating the need for counselling to be flexible and personalised to suite the individual or group’s needs.
TRAUMA
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
Sigmund Freud
Trauma – the subjective experience. What does that mean? Emotional trauma is the distinctive experience by an individual of an incident with lasting condition. The trauma engulfs the individual’s capability to assimilate the emotional experience leaving a sense of helplessness, pain, confusion and loss. No two people will experience an occurrence equally and their emotional response may vary extensively.
Summarising trauma as an undeviating individual involvement of an occurrence that encompass or expose a person to death or severe grievance; a danger to a person’s body, observing an incident that comprises of the previously mentioned experience, learning about unforeseen or violent passing, intense injury, or risk of death, or grievance experienced by a family member or close associate. Recollections connected with trauma are implicit, pre-verbal and cannot be remembered, but can be triggered by stimuli from the surroundings. The person's reaction to details of a disturbing event, involve powerful fear, vulnerability or horror. In children it is revealed as unsystematic or nervous behaviour.
The causes of trauma can be through an extensive diversity of events, but there are a number of shared characteristics. Consistent violation of the person's concepts regarding their world and human rights, placing the individual in a state of extreme disorder and uncertainty. This is also seen when organisations that are depended upon for existence, infringe, demean, deceive, or cause major damages or separations.
Traumatic experiences often comprise of physical trauma that intimidates one's existence and sense of sanctuary and safety. Characteristic causes and dangers of emotional trauma consist of provocation (harassment), humiliation, abandonment, abusive relationships, rejection, co-dependence, physical attack (assault), sexual abuse, spouse / companion battery, employment discrimination, police violence, judicial exploitation and transgression, harassment, authoritarianism, domestic violence, indoctrination, the victim of an intoxicated parent(s), in danger or the observation of violence (predominantly in infancy), life-threatening health disorders, and medication-induced trauma.
Environmental disasters such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, wide-reaching transport accidents, household or community fires, vehicle accidents, violence of great extent like warfare, terrorist attacks or torments like sex trafficking as well as the anguish of being taken hostage or kidnapped can cause psychological trauma.
UNBLOCKING
“Between Blocked and Unblocked – There are many things left untold.”
Sourajit Sarkar
Your head is whirling with different thoughts, or one is constantly popping up, your relationship with a specific person is troublesome or there is a decision you need to make but are unable to move towards the outcome and many other life circumstances. You feel confined at times, even constrained and need change to occur.
Unblocking is a methodical technique, where upsetting thoughts of circumstances, individuals and places are explored through the interest of the client to an outcome called an end point which provides renewed clarity and direction.
TRAUMATIC INCIDENT REDUCTION - (TIR)
One of Metapsychology Methods
“Trauma creates change you don’t choose
Healing is about creating change you do choose.”
Michelle Rosenthal
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GROUP DEBRIEFING
“Survival is your strength, not your shame.”
Jaycee Dugard
Group trauma debriefing is a particular method intended for people handling the physical or emotional symptoms in the aftermath of exposure to trauma experienced together.
The procedure permits the involved individuals to reflect upon and process the impact of the incident through the expressing and freeing of emotions caused by the traumatic occurrence.
Debriefing ought to be provided 72 hours after the preliminary trauma took place.
It is advisable for everyone that endured a traumatic event to seek trauma counselling although they might feel that they are coping. The repercussions of the trauma event may lead to a feeling of being overwhelmed and by that phase it might be all the more difficult to deal with, including consequences such as on-going nightmares, anxiety outbreaks, flashbacks and enhanced state of sensory sensitivity. Debriefing has the ability to inhibit these subsequent effects – aiding individuals and groups toward rapid healing and giving them back the insight and experience of control over their lives, by assimilating at a rational and emotional level the deep personal experiences caused by the trauma. A traumatic incident shared by a number of people creates a sense of unity in a group debriefing through the sharing of facts and emotions as it empowers the individuals to feel less isolated by knowing that their emotional state and reaction to the trauma is normal. The debriefing allows them to come to grips with the tragedy through re-evaluation of the incident and its significance.