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Fly on the Wall: When Life Happens as a Therapist

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Having a Relational Attunement in a Therapy Relationship

Sally Kohn: I think that's exactly why my personal EMDR experiences were negative. Because the personality that I have and the attachment or relational trauma in my history one of the main themes is your big feelings are too much and they make you uncomfortable. So when I went in to process a big bad trauma here I came with all my big feeling and it was a lot of activation rightly so it was an assault situation and my body reacted big and it freaked the therapist out. She pulled the plug and said that I wasn't ready for it because it wasn't relational. And she did not have the relational attunement to what it actually felt like to be the person that I

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