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Antonieta Contreras
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Antonieta Contreras
Feb 7, 20214 min read
How to Resolve PTSD
Have you ever wondered whether PTSD ever goes away or if it can be cured? I like to use the term "resolution" instead of cure because...
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Antonieta Contreras
Feb 5, 20211 min read
Can EMDR make some patients worse?
The key element for EMDR to be effective is to “activate” the emotions from the past. This activation normally opens a can of worms. If...
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Antonieta Contreras
Sep 10, 20203 min read
What is IFS (Internal Family System) therapy?
IFS it’s revolutionary as a philosophy, it’s effective as a regulation tool, and it’s challenging as a processing tool.
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Antonieta Contreras
Sep 4, 20203 min read
What is the most effective therapy for trauma?
There is no one therapy that encompasses all the aspects that need to be included in trauma treatment since there is no such thing as a...
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Antonieta Contreras
Aug 31, 20203 min read
What Is The Most Effective Therapy for Trauma?
There is no one therapy that encompasses all the aspects that need to be included in trauma treatment since there is no such thing as a moda
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Antonieta Contreras
Aug 30, 20203 min read
Is Polyvagal Therapy Helpful?
There is no such thing as “Polyvagal Therapy.”
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Antonieta Contreras
Aug 29, 20204 min read
How Soon Can a Person do EMDR in Therapy After a Traumatic Event?
EMDR could be done right after the traumatic event using a specific protocol for those events.
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Antonieta Contreras
Aug 28, 20202 min read
If You Don’t Control your Fear, Will Your Fear Control You?
Emotions, in general, have the purpose of motivating us to act or to avoid certain situations.
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Antonieta Contreras
Aug 27, 20202 min read
What's A Safe Space In Therapy?
The main idea in therapy is to provide healing experiences to the client that aim to repair or to provide something missing.
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Antonieta Contreras
Aug 20, 20206 min read
How Do You Find Out If You Have C-PTSD?
To really find out whether —or in which ways— you were hurt by having been exposed to toxic stress for a prolonged period of your life is a
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Antonieta Contreras
Aug 17, 20202 min read
In what ways can a therapist or counselor re-traumatize a client?
If the client reactivates emotions and/or memories by feeling them as they happened during the traumatization..
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