Kaely Ferrara
Kaely Ferrara
Psychotherapy for Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
A Roadmap to Trauma Treatment
Phase 1: Assessment
Goal: Explore ways you have been coping with the unresolved trauma, explore problematic coping skills and any current safety concerns, create a safety plan for keeping self safe, develop a clear understanding of what your symptoms are, identify what regions of your brain are overactive versus under active, explore your strengths that may be leveraged within sessions, assess your eating habits, sleep patterns and level of physical activity, develop a diagnosis and a plan for treatment.
Phase 2: Acquisition
Goal: Begin to learn about concepts that will be used within sessions such as how the nervous system and brain interact, identifying your ‘Tolerance Zones’, exploring the concept of ‘dialing up’ versus ‘dialing down’ your nervous system, explore how your nervous system responds to various sensory based coping skills, learn about ways to ‘discharge’ and ‘recharge’ energy from your nervous system, begin to explore the concept of ‘resourcing’, begin integrating activities into your routine that help ‘anchor’ your nervous system.
Phase 3: Exploration
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Emotional Balance
Emotional Balance
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Over 200 worksheets aimed to support you in learning how to develop emotional balance, identify and intervene on negative self talk, and improve your ability to resolve relational conflict.
Body-Mind
Integration
Body-Mind
Integration
Somatic
Therapy
Somatic
Therapy
Over 100 exercises and independent work focused around using movement and mindfulness
to reestablish internal safety, process trauma held within the body, and realign the body-mind relationship
Identity Exploration
Identity Exploration
Experiential
Therapy
Experiential
Therapy
A variety of self care challenges designed to enhance your self care routine and further explore your identify through relational challenges, sensory exploration, and inner child focused exercises.
Symptom Management
Symptom Management
Diagnostic
Evaluation
Diagnostic
Evaluation
Various evidence based standardized testing tools to accurately identify your diagnosis, identify shifts in your severity of symptoms, and track milestones achieved with treatment.