Coaching practices for Parts Work Trauma
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Parts Work Trauma, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- The moment a body scan asks me to bring attention to my chest or belly, something locks up and floods
- I’ve been focused on the obvious wound
- 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
- I’ve told the story plenty of times
Practices that may help
- Choose body areas to attend to with care
Start body attention from the periphery (hands, feet) and only move toward the core if peripheral areas feel safe.
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, Made Practical - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Process cognitions after an exposure session
After each imaginal exposure, discuss what came up — the stuck meanings and beliefs — not just the distress level.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Principles, Practices, and the Evidence - Practicing deliberate choice in movement
Make explicit micro-decisions during movement to rebuild the felt experience of agency.
Trauma-Informed Yoga: Movement as a Path to Safety - Identify your stuck points
Name the specific beliefs about safety, trust, control, esteem, or intimacy that the trauma has frozen.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD - 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.
Related concerns
- Multiple Trauma Treatment
Unlike single-event protocols, NET is specifically designed for people who have experienced multiple traumas.
Use NET for sequential and complex trauma
- Trauma Targeting
Start body attention from the periphery (hands, feet) and only move toward the core if peripheral areas feel safe.
Choose body areas to attend to with care
- Deliberate Choice Trauma
Make explicit micro-decisions during movement to rebuild the felt experience of agency.
Practicing deliberate choice in movement
- How Trauma Is Stored In The Body
Sweep attention through the body after processing to catch residual tension before closing the session.
Body Scan and Session Closure
- Low Resource Trauma Therapy
NET is specifically designed for low-resource settings and has been validated when delivered by trained laypersons — not only psychologists.
Understand that NET can be delivered by trained non-clinicians
- 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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