Coaching practices for Narrative Processing Trauma
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Narrative Processing Trauma, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ve told the story plenty of times
- When the worst moment comes back it’s just the worst moment, ripped out of everything around it, no before and no after
- It wasn’t one bad thing
- Something scared my child
- When I try to tell the story of what happened it comes out as a jumble that doesn’t hang together
Practices that may help
- Work the four channels of traumatic memory: sense, emotion, cognition, meaning
NET explicitly addresses all four channels in which trauma is encoded — not just thought.
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET): Weaving Trauma Into a Coherent Life Story - Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET): Weaving Trauma Into a Coherent Life Story
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), developed by Schauer, Neuner, and Elbert, is a structured short-term treatment for PTSD that works by having the client construct a detailed narrative of their entire life — placing traumatic events within a larger biographical context, rather than isolating them. Multiple randomized trials in refugee and war-affected populations show significant, durable reductions in PTSD symptoms. NET is particularly suited to complex and repeated trauma where individual events cannot easily be isolated. - Narrate the trauma in chronological order within its life context
Tell the story of a traumatic event — before, during, and after — in the context of the surrounding life.
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET): Weaving Trauma Into a Coherent Life Story - Use NET for sequential and complex trauma
Unlike single-event protocols, NET is specifically designed for people who have experienced multiple traumas.
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET): Weaving Trauma Into a Coherent Life Story - Name it to tame it: tell the story of the big feeling
Help the child narrate what happened and how it felt — storytelling is brain integration.
The Whole-Brain Child (Siegel & Bryson) - Build a coherent narrative of what happened
Tell the story of the difficult event in a way that makes sense — coherence reduces distress even when the event itself cannot be undone.
Meaning-Making Coping, Made Practical - Write an impact statement — why the trauma happened and how it affected you
A written account of the meaning you made of the trauma is CPT’s starting point for finding stuck points.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD - Retell the story of the death and its aftermath
Construct a coherent, detailed narrative of the loss — including your experience before, during, and after.
Meaning Reconstruction in Grief, Made Practical - Create a testimony document
NET produces a written testimony of the person’s life — a document that the person and therapist co-author and that the person keeps.
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET): Weaving Trauma Into a Coherent Life Story - 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
Related concerns
- Chronological Trauma Narration
Tell the story of a traumatic event — before, during, and after — in the context of the surrounding life.
Narrate the trauma in chronological order within its life context
- How To Tell A Trauma Story
Tell the story of a traumatic event — before, during, and after — in the context of the surrounding life.
- Trauma Narrative Therapy
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), developed by Schauer, Neuner, and Elbert, is a structured short-term treatment for PTSD that works by having the client construct a detailed narrative of their entire life — placing traumatic events within a larger biographical context, rather than isolating them. Multiple randomized trials in refugee and war-affected populations show significant, durable reductions in PTSD symptoms. NET is particularly suited to complex and repeated trauma where individual events cannot easily be isolated.
- Trauma Story Before And After
Tell the story of a traumatic event — before, during, and after — in the context of the surrounding life.
- Trauma Testimony Therapy
NET produces a written testimony of the person’s life — a document that the person and therapist co-author and that the person keeps.
Create a testimony document
- Narrative Exposure Therapy Net Weaving Trauma Into A Coherent Life Story After A Loss
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), developed by Schauer, Neuner, and Elbert, is a structured short-term treatment for PTSD that works by having the client construct a detailed narrative of their entire life — placing traumatic events within a larger biographical context, rather than isolating them. Multiple randomized trials in refugee and war-affected populations show significant, durable reductions in PTSD symptoms. NET is particularly suited to complex and repeated trauma where individual events cannot easily be isolated.
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