Strength and Healing Counseling

Providing a safe place to get started

Not everyone who needs trauma therapy is ready to start and that is OK!

• SFBT can help you identify the resources you already have, strengthen them, and teach new strategies to enhance them.

• SFBT teaches strategies that help with accessing the resilience you already have in order to better cope with current situations.

• SFBT does not go to the deeper painful places and often teaches how to maintain control and contain your experience.  This actually is an important part of the EMDR experience.

• SFBT often integrates well with other modalities.

Structured:

• Initial Consultation: An SFBT specialist will conduct an initial assessment to collaborate with you.

• Collaborative Planning: You and your therapist will together come to identify what needs to be addressed.

• SFBT Sessions: These usually are planned out in advance after the first evaluation meeting with a specific timeline adhered to in most cases.

• Containment, control, clarity.  In the end, it is intended that you will have a greater send of control, awareness of the importance of the skills you already have had all along, and new strategies to cope with your presenting....solutions!

Keep the following in mind:

• SFBT is not a replacement for EMDR, but can help you prepare to carefully discern if and when you would like to try EMDR.

• SFBT may be all you need for the present moment and it can be a safe way to have a positive therapy experience..

• You can always come back after a break if you and your therapist decide to stop after goals are met.

Take the Next Step

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