Online Psychotraumatology and Life Coaching
Are you experiencing anxiety, depression, tearfulness or numbness? Perhaps lots of bodily aches and pains, or headaches? Does everything feel overwhelming, or you have stopped doing your normal hobbies? Whether you have a trauma-related mental health diagnosis, you think you might have or you are struggling in any way. Solace With Lydie is here to help you. I also provide assistance and referrals to local mental health NHS and private clinics as a separate service.
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Integrative Psychotraumatology
I utilise integrative, evidence-based techniques for clinical mental health trauma treatment. Following the trauma treatment protocol, I support clients through regulation, stabilisation and containment of trauma-related symptoms. Then through CBT, embodied and somatic techniques, I help individuals to safely unpick any stuck beliefs and explore any past stuck traumas.
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I follow the trauma treatment protocol of NICE, UKPTS and APA evidence-based guidelines and published quality standards. I also adhere to the recent (2022) UK government report on trauma-informed practises. Please see below link for details.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-definition-of-trauma-informed-practice/working-definition-of-trauma-informed-practice?fbclid=IwAR0FRnUuSRaoHwhSduc_ICtuhWWfArEhuwN85ECxrF8L_qaxiD9HkTZNkiA
Phase one consists of regulation, stabilisation and containment work. Though people come with many different trauma experiences, narratives and symptoms, I am overall utilising the same approach - to regulate people’s nervous systems. This reduces people’s immediate symptoms and risk of self-harm/suicide. By helping your nervous system to return to a more stable baseline, often the body is able to process stuck traumas more easily even before the next step.
Phase 2 is then processing any stuck traumas and beliefs that are still present in the body and mind. A careful unpacking of these experiences is required, and I pride myself in my client-led process in this section of psychotherapy sessions. The wisdom of the body will assist in what it needs. I help you to feel safe enough to hear it.
Lastly, phase 3 is post-processing the trauma growth, meaning it is about relearning aspects of yourself, others and the world that feel very different now that you don’t have these stuck traumas in your system; different can feel challenging and it is an important part of the treatment process to ensure long-lasting change. ​
Integrative Psychotraumatology Online Fees:
Sessions are normally 90 minutes long to provide time for clients to explore narratives and somatic experiences fully, costing £100 per session. Sessions are normally required to be weekly or biweekly to ensure containment and flow of treatment. A minimum of 6-8 sessions is required to ensure safety and proper process.
Sessions can be reduced to 50 or 60 minutes long to accommodate clients’ needs costing £60-70 per session. Do get in touch with my to discuss how long a session would be right for you.
Models Used In Trauma Treatment Sessions
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IFEEL CPR - A trauma-focused CBT based model is taught as the main phase II treatment. This challenges stuck beliefs and narratives, supports coping mechanisms to become less invasive and gently adapt unhelpful thinking styles.
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Stress Inoculation Training (SIT) is a cognitive-behavioral therapy that teaches skills and techniques to manage stress and reduce anxiety.
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Present-Centered Therapy (PCT) focuses on current life problems that are related to PTSD and immediate symptom relief.
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) focuses on the impact of trauma on interpersonal relationships and aims to improve the relationship with yourself, others and the world.
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a type of CBT but is designed to assist you in coping with strong emotional responses. Providing you with skills to cope with these emotional responses is paramount in trauma work.
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Somatic Experiencing (SE) is the core model in the bottom-up approach to this treatment of trauma. By working on the body, internal sensations and sensory awareness, we can help the body to process stuck traumas in the way that it is designed to.
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Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM) is a cutting edge model for the treatment of Complex PTSD, providing focus on attachment, relational and developmental trauma in psychological treatment.
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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SMP) is a model similar to Somatic Experiancing but with more of a focus on the combination of cognitive and somatic aspects in the therapeutic process. Alongside CBT models, the body is viewed as an integral source of information, accessing stuck traumas and the required processing needed for recovery.
Life Development Coach
These sessions provide people with upskilling in emotional regulation, resilience and trauma-informed psychoeducation. By exploring boundaries, communication, self-awareness and more, a more nourishing relationship with yourself, others and the world is possible.
This service is for everyone, helping to empower people to be more authentically themselves. Though this is a lighter touch than Psychotherapy sessions, major change processes occur, with similar neuroplasticity alterations. These are powerful coaching sessions which can help support you in life, through challenges and transitions with a present and future-focused mindset.
Personal and professional human development sessions utilise the initial stages of therapy, creating an effective and sustainable foundational change in our nervous systems. Whereas therapy sessions would continue into more complexity, perhaps past memories and trauma processing materials, these sessions keep the narrative in the present and future. Though it may seem a lighter-touch approach, the process provides massive shifts and transformative change.
For those not requiring a higher level of Psychotraumatology, or if you don’t feel ready to embark on that journey, this middle ground is perfect to explore yourself and create real change. We all have stuff, memories and experiences. Yet often, we don’t all need therapy. But that doesn’t mean we can’t all be supported through our lives, our stuck points. If we can build more regulation in our nervous systems, the issues we are experiencing will often lessen. Yet this is done through change, and change is not easy and can be uncomfortable and scary. This is why a trauma-skilled professional is highly beneficial for people wanting to be more authentically themselves.
Life coaching Fees:
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Sessions are normally 90 minutes long to ensure the transformational process is somatically experianced and the change process is fully completed, costing £70 per session. Sessions are normally weekly or biweekly to ensure flow of the change process. A minimum of 3-4 sessions is required for the proper process to be completed in a safe and effective manner.
Shorter sessions are available at 50 - 60 minutes long costing £. Please contact me to discuss what length of session would support you best.
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How Does This All Work?
Through Neuro-Biological, Psycho-Social Theoretical Frameworks and somatic and cognitive therapy methods, the body and mind are supported through the process of moving through the trauma. Supporting the system to relearn how we are made to process trauma, through movement and community. Ever thought about why animals and ourselves shake in seeming fear? This is our bodies' natural way of processing trauma. We are utilising different tools and techniques to help our body relearn what it is made to be able to do.
Neuroplasticity and somatic work are at the core of why this treatment provides long-lasting change.
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Neuroplasticity:
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In any change work, whether that be personal/professional development, therapy or general learning and experiences, neuroplasticity occurs. Our brains have evolved to continually change and develop.
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When there may be physical, mental and emotional struggles, a certain neural pathway may have become stronger than it needs to be. It often becomes stronger as a survival mechanism, but after it is not needed, it doesn’t just disappear, it often keeps you in a more overactive fight/flight response. It is very difficult to strengthen other, more nourishing rest and digest neural pathways on your own.
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Relief from symptoms in development and therapy sessions ultimately happens because neural pathways in your brain are changing, helping you to experience more rest and digest experiences. Being in this state provides relief from physical, mental and emotional struggles.
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How do you alter the neural networks?
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As you experience something, neurons are activated and fire off to other neurons in your brain. These neurons wire together, creating a pathway.
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The more it is experienced, the stronger the pathway.
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If you strengthen neural pathways that assist with reducing stress etc - it changes your brain’s structure, changing how you see and respond to the world.
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By doing meditation, yoga, tai chi, qui gong, etc - all types of insight meditations - you are strengthening the neural networks of the brain’s ability to focus inward, bring yourself back from distractions and focus inwards again. Focused attention inward reduces stress, and promotes wellbeing.
