The Trauma Perspective

Without a doubt, we know that individuals experience trauma through sexual abuse, sexual violence, rape, sexual assault, emotional rape, and many other types of sexual rated trauma experiences. Sex is such a vital and natural part of human existence and disruptions in the development of individuals’ sexual identity can change the course of their ability to relate to sex as a natural state of human existence. Disruptions in an individual being allowed to define their sexuality for themselves can lead to many physical, emotional, and psychological pain. This episode attempts to explore and differentiate sexual trauma and sexual addiction. While looking at the connections that feed these two issues.

Brynne Dearie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, and a Licensed Drug and Alcohol Counselor. Email: [email protected]

Finding mental health services, trauma treatment, and particularly treatment for eating disorders can be a challenge. This is a diagnosis that is usually treated from a symptom-focused approach and sometimes doesn’t include a focus on an individual’s trauma healing needs. Claudia Y Pache, MA, LMHC, CEDS, RYT 200 joins me in continuing our discussion on the effects of trauma on eating disorders and the importance of finding the right treatment. Claudia is a licensed Mental Health Counselor who is certified as a Clinical Trauma Professional. Her specialties include eating disorders. She has her Certified Eating Disorder Specialist certification from the International Association of Eating Disorder Specialists and is a Certified Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy Level 3 Specialist who follows the Health At Every Size model.

She is also trained in EMDR and Accelerated Resolution therapy. Claudia is a Certified Health Coach and a Yoga instructor specializing in Trauma Sensitive Yoga.

The experiences of trauma consume an individual’s body and mind. Developing an eating disorder or having disordered eating is just one coping strategy an individual using for survival. The toxicity of trauma has a way of disconnecting an individual from their body and cause them to live their life in parts. Claudia Y Pache, MA, LMHC, CEDS, RYT 200 joins me in discussing the effects of trauma on eating disorders. Claudia is a licensed Mental Health Counselor who is certified as a Clinical Trauma Professional. Her specialties include eating disorders. She has her Certified Eating Disorder Specialist certification from the International Association of Eating Disorder Specialists and is a Certified Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy Level 3 Specialist who follows the Health At Every Size model.

She is also trained in EMDR and Accelerated Resolution therapy. Claudia is a Certified Health Coach and a Yoga instructor specializing in Trauma Sensitive Yoga.

The Insurrection was an event that changed history and impacted the American democratic process. This is one therapist's perspective on that event and doing crisis counseling in DC after the event. Issues of Secondary Trauma and Crisis work will be discussed. And other insights into fear-based behaviors that lead to harmful outcomes will also be unpacked.

There is no better place to start a conversation about trauma than to discuss, “What is trauma?”  In this episode, Dr. Tasha creates an opening to discuss the meaning of trauma and define it for your life.