Trauma Recovery (Three-Phased Model)
Trauma Recovery using the Three-Phased Model is a structured therapeutic approach designed to help individuals heal from the complex and lasting effects of trauma. This model divides the recovery process into three distinct phases: stabilisation, trauma processing, and reintegration. By moving through these stages, individuals can gradually heal from traumatic experiences in a safe and manageable way, restoring emotional well-being and resilience.
What is the Three-Phased Model?
The Three-Phased Model of trauma recovery is a widely used framework in trauma therapy that provides a step-by-step approach to healing. It recognises that trauma can have long-lasting impacts on emotional and physical well-being, and healing must be approached in a safe, structured manner. The three phases include:
- Stabilisation: This phase focuses on creating safety and stability in your everyday life. It involves developing coping strategies, building emotional regulation skills, and managing symptoms like anxiety, flashbacks, or dissociation.
- Trauma Processing: Once a stable foundation is established, the second phase involves processing the traumatic memories in a controlled way. This is done using various techniques to help you work through the trauma without becoming overwhelmed.
- Reintegration: In this final phase, the focus is on moving forward, reintegrating the gains from therapy into your daily life. This stage helps you rebuild a positive sense of self, improve relationships, and establish new, healthier patterns for living.
How Trauma Recovery Works
In Trauma Recovery using the Three-Phased Model, we take the healing process one step at a time to ensure you feel safe and supported throughout. During the stabilisation phase, we work on managing symptoms and creating a sense of safety in your body and environment. This phase may involve mindfulness, grounding exercises, and emotional regulation techniques.
When you’re ready, we move into the trauma processing phase. This step involves revisiting and working through traumatic memories, typically using techniques such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), or Somatic Therapy. You can learn more about EMDR, a widely recognised trauma therapy, from the EMDR International Association.
Finally, in the reintegration phase, we help you rebuild your sense of self and reconnect with the world in a healthy way, focusing on personal growth and resilience.
Benefits of the Three-Phased Model
This structured approach ensures that healing from trauma happens in a safe, gradual manner. Trauma Recovery using the Three-Phased Model helps individuals regain control over their lives, reduces symptoms of PTSD and anxiety, and promotes long-term emotional resilience. By addressing trauma in a phased way, the process becomes more manageable and less overwhelming.
Why Choose Trauma Recovery at Restorative Counselling?
At Restorative Counselling, I use the Three-Phased Model to help you recover from trauma in a safe, compassionate environment. My approach is focused on ensuring you feel supported and empowered throughout the entire healing journey. Whether you’re dealing with childhood trauma, complex PTSD, or more recent traumatic events, I will guide you through each phase at a pace that feels right for you.
If you’re ready to begin healing from trauma, please contact me today to learn how Trauma Recovery using the Three-Phased Model can help. Together, we can move towards lasting recovery and emotional well-being.
FAQs
Counselling works best when you recognise that you’re struggling and can no longer continue as you are, and you want to make changes in your life but don’t know how. Sometimes, it may feel almost impossible to know what these changes should be. Often, the insights that arise are created during sessions through deep discussions and are developed between sessions.
Counselling can be challenging, as it may bring old memories, feelings, and past hurts to the surface. However, sharing these thoughts and feelings will give you a clearer understanding of why they still cause you pain, an ability to reduce that pain, and even help you find healing from those experiences.
I offer a Humanistic Integrative approach in a person-centred way. This means that we focus on you as an individual, working with your agenda, allowing you to explore those difficult memories and feelings. I use a combination of approaches to suit your individual needs because I believe one size does not fit all. We are all unique.
This is entirely up to you and something we can discuss during our initial consultation. Sometimes, starting with six sessions can be beneficial, and during these sessions, we can review whether you would like to continue or terminate them. Short-term counselling can be helpful during an immediate crisis to support you through it.
Long-term counselling allows for a deeper exploration of your problems, helping you understand how they affect you and where they stem from. We can start with weekly sessions and later move to fortnightly or every three weeks, depending on the situation and what would benefit you. Remember, this is your decision. At the end, we can have a final review and look at ways to help you move forward in your life, making the transition as safe and comfortable as possible.
Often, you will know when your counselling is nearing its end. You will feel more confident and at peace within yourself, and the memories will not cause you as much pain. You will be able to reflect on them in a way that no longer distresses you. We will discuss how you would like to conclude the counselling process.
We can have a final review a few weeks after counselling ends to see how you have been coping and how you’ve incorporated these changes into your daily life.
I currently charge £50 per session. I also offer concessions for those in need and will try to match your income, as I understand that affording regular counselling can be challenging.
For students studying for their Diploma or another qualification who need hours towards their personal counselling, I also offer a concession if needed.
Your first appointment may seem daunting, but it’s an opportunity for us to meet and get to know each other. We can then discuss how we can best work together and how I may be able to help you.
I also offer a free 20-minute phone call to briefly discuss the therapy and how we can begin.
