Stop wasting your clients time by focusing on the wrong treatment target

Stop wasting yours and the client's time by offering the wrong type of therapy sessions.

Let’s name it:

If you’re treating the wrong trauma,
you aren’t getting results.

Too many brilliant, skilled therapists walk into sessions with a full toolbox—but no clear map.
And when you don’t know what type of trauma session you’re offering…
you risk doing good work that doesn’t land.

Here are 5 trauma session types you need to know:

1. Boundaries

This is for the client who says “yes” but means “no.”
Who disappears into others.
Who can’t tell the difference between what’s theirs and what’s not.

In this session, you’re building edges.
You’re restoring the ability to hold one’s shape.
You’re not just talking—you’re resourcing, anchoring, and rebuilding agency from the body outward.

2. Attachment

This is subtle. Tender. Slow.
You’re not “doing”—you’re being.

This is for the client who flinches at closeness,
Or chases connection but never feels safe when they have it.
You’re tracking rupture, repair, and regulation.
You’re offering the kind of presence that rewires their story of love.

3. Shock Trauma

Think car accidents, surgeries, sudden loss, assaults.

This isn’t about digging deep—
It’s about titration. Precision. Completion.
You help the body release what got stuck—so it can come back to now.
This session is about restoring physiological safety.

4. Developmental Trauma

Long arcs. Early wounds. Deep silence.

You’re working with what never got named.
Not one big event—but a thousand moments of misattunement.
This client doesn’t always have language—but they have a body that remembers.
Your job is to create slowness, safety, and new possibility—one session at a time.

5. Shame (Treat for a long time)

This is the core.
The “I am bad” that won’t be reasoned with.

You can’t logic shame away.
You have to meet it gently, over and over.
With warmth. Repetition. Permission.
These sessions ask you to slow down, notice the subtle shifts, and help your client rebuild a sense of self worth living in.
If you’re offering the wrong session structure— even your best skills won’t land.
 

And, when you naming what kind of trauma you’re treating, everything changes.

Sessions deepen.
Clients shift.
You feel proud.
 

This is what we teach inside the Integrative Trauma Training Program
Because when you have real clarity—your confidence follows.

For full [or nearly full] caseload therapists
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