Do You Have the Alliance to Go Into Trauma Processing?

A therapist's ability to be attuned with their client is important for trauma therapy. Attachment and personality disorder are two factors that need to be considered in the preparation phase of a session. A good way to assess this is in preparation when we're doing things like calm, comfortable place and containment. If they have a hard time even trusting us to be alongside them while they go to a calm,fortable place, they're probably not going to trust us to help support them as they move past it.