For our 10-day retreats there is a lot of interest from professionals working in the mental healthcare sector. We have seen psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists and many other mental…
Intimate relationships where cPTSD is involved aren’t that easy to built. To find the balance between autonomy and deep connection is a quest. Before you know there’s an…
During the last years I have started to work more as a therapist with people who suffer from the effects of structural dissociation. Structural dissociation develops because a…
Together with two colleague trauma therapists we had decided to do ‘research’ into the effects of psilocybin, the active ingredient in the so-called magic mushrooms.Various scientific studies are…
Okay, I admit… Things aren’t going as well as I pretended. Last Saturday night in my last post I wrote about how well I’m doing. Much of that…
Our inner child is beautiful. It let us play in a truly innocent way. No drama, no manipulation and when nurtured by our mature mind it can be…
This year is all about being completely faithful and honest to myself. No concessions, no smuggling. Instead, pronouncing myself, facing fears and not running away from them. Also…
A piece of personal experience to illustrate how childhood trauma can be caused by abuse, mistreatment or harassment. But also how it can heal in a therapeutic setting.…
A lot of assumptions are made in the land of trauma therapy. One of the assumptions, under pressure from the insurance companies, is that healing from trauma can…