Coaching practices for How to Deal with Trauma Depression
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ve been focused on the obvious wound
- Every time I try to face the hard stuff I go straight at the worst of it to just get it over with, and it floods me
- I know I need to face the memory eventually, but the moment I get near it I get pulled all the way under
- My head says I’ve dealt with it, but my body didn’t get the message
- I want to work on this, but the thought of having to write out or relive every detail of what happened is exactly what stops me cold
Practices that may help
- Examine stuck points across the five disrupted domains
CPT organizes trauma-disrupted beliefs into five domains — Safety, Trust, Power, Esteem, Intimacy — to ensure none are missed.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD - Titration (work in tiny, tolerable doses)
Approach a hard sensation or memory in small sips, not all at once, so you stay regulated.
Somatic Experiencing, Honestly Explained - Safe Place Installation
Anchor a vivid, calming mental image you can return to when distress spikes during processing.
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - Body Scan and Session Closure
Sweep attention through the body after processing to catch residual tension before closing the session.
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - Know that CPT-C (cognitive only) skips the trauma narrative
A cognitive-only version of CPT omits the written trauma account and may be more tolerable for some people.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD - Debrief after each stressful encounter
Within 24 hours of a challenging event, review what you did, what worked, and what you will adjust.
Stress Inoculation Training - ACCEPTS — structured distraction from crisis
Use Activities, Contributing, Comparisons, Emotions, Pushing away, Thoughts, and Sensations to redirect attention during a crisis.
Distress Tolerance Skills, Made Practical - Understand the PTSD cycle — education is part of treatment
Learning why PTSD works the way it does reduces self-blame and makes the logic of exposure credible.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Principles, Practices, and the Evidence - Recognize activation signals during practice
Learn your personal early warning signs of trauma activation so you can step back before overwhelm.
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, Made Practical - Understand imaginal exposure: revisiting the traumatic memory deliberately
Imaginal exposure has the person revisit the traumatic memory in detail to allow the brain to process it as a past event.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Principles, Practices, and the Evidence
Related concerns
- Discharging Trauma Activation
Somatic Experiencing, developed by Peter Levine, proposes that overwhelming experience leaves incomplete survival energy "stuck" in the body, and that gently completing and discharging that activation — in small, titrated doses, moving between activation and calm (pendulation) — helps the nervous system settle. The body-awareness skills it teaches are low-risk and increasingly studied, but the evidence base is still emerging and the "stored energy" model is a clinical theory, not established physiology. These are self-regulation skills; trauma work belongs with a trained professional.
- Emotional Processing Ptsd
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), developed by Patricia Resick, treats PTSD primarily by identifying and challenging "stuck points" — distorted or overgeneralized beliefs about safety, trust, control, intimacy, and self-worth that the trauma produced. Multiple large randomized trials show CPT is among the most effective available treatments for PTSD, comparable to Prolonged Exposure. The core concepts and some worksheets are publicly available; the full protocol benefits significantly from a CPT-trained therapist.
- Flooding In Trauma Therapy
Learn to distinguish "processing within the window" from "flooding outside it" — the difference determines whether the session helps or harms.
Recognize the difference between titration and flooding
- How Do I Heal From Childhood Trauma And Ptsd Caused By Parents Emotional And Physical Abuse
Learning why PTSD works the way it does reduces self-blame and makes the logic of exposure credible.
Understand the PTSD cycle — education is part of treatment
- How To Handle Post Traumatic Stress With My 6yr Old Daughter
Help the child narrate what happened and how it felt — storytelling is brain integration.
Name it to tame it: tell the story of the big feeling
- Multi Channel Trauma Processing
NET explicitly addresses all four channels in which trauma is encoded — not just thought.
Work the four channels of traumatic memory: sense, emotion, cognition, meaning
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