Transcript
First and foremost, I think what folks are concerned about
is that I'm going to have to go in
and right away meet this strange person
and talk about this horrific event that happened in my life.
And that's not what happens.
We have to build some kind of a relationship
and some kind of rapport.
I want to get to know you,
I want to find out what your life is like right now,
things that you enjoy, things you don't enjoy.
How is your sleep?
How is your eating?
Do you exercise?
Things like that.
To build some kind of a relationship
so that we have some groundwork to work, to come from.
Otherwise, I can't start with somebody
out of the gate and work on trauma.
They don't know me, they don't trust me, so we don't do that.
Once that's done, and that can take a few sessions,
then we'll slowly enter into the trauma part.
Talk about maybe what happened, how it affected the person,
what we're going to do to help un-stick them, so to speak.