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Antonieta Contreras
Psychotherapist, AUTHOR, supervisor, consultant, coach
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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...
Antonieta Contreras
Feb 7, 20214 min read
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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...
Antonieta Contreras
Feb 5, 20211 min read
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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.
Antonieta Contreras
Sep 10, 20203 min read
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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...
Antonieta Contreras
Sep 4, 20203 min read
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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
Antonieta Contreras
Sep 1, 20203 min read
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Is Polyvagal Therapy Helpful?
There is no such thing as “Polyvagal Therapy.”
Antonieta Contreras
Aug 31, 20203 min read
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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.
Antonieta Contreras
Aug 30, 20204 min read
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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.
Antonieta Contreras
Aug 29, 20202 min read
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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.
Antonieta Contreras
Aug 28, 20202 min read
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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
Antonieta Contreras
Aug 21, 20206 min read
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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..
Antonieta Contreras
Aug 18, 20202 min read
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