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Currently experts recognize process issues, compulsive behaviors including gambling, gaming, video, and shopping. However, compulsive behaviors around sex and love can also destroy lives and relationships and is often rooted in severe trauma that can make it difficult to escape. Compulsive Behaviors in Sex and love are not always acknowledged or understood as maladaptive trauma…
Trauma and Beyond Psychological Center in Sherman Oaks, California, focuses on working with our clients towards finding resolution of developmental trauma and shock trauma. It is our belief that trauma is at the root of many psychological and behavioral problems. When trauma occurs, the brain’s natural defense is to suppress or make unconscious these traumatic…
Recovery from compulsive behaviors is a lifelong battle endeavor. Compulsive Behaviors can negatively impact everything that we hold dear, from family life to work, and eventually it becomes impossible for those affected to live a normal life. Seeking addiction treatment is a good start however in order to sustain long term recovery and a life…
Often times those struggling with relationships are well aware of patterns that keep showing up no matter who their partner is. They may find someone who seems quite different in the beginning only to notice later in the relationship that many of the problems they experienced with other partners are showing up again. Other’s struggle…
Trauma Informed You may ask what makes “trauma informed” therapy different then classic psychotherapy, and why this distinction is so important. We’d like to address this to help you understand why the trauma informed therapy is so crucial for trauma healing. Classic therapeutic approaches generally include styles such as psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, cognitive behavioral or family…
What is Childhood Trauma? Trauma can take place in many forms. Trauma that happens over time, often during childhood and often in the hands of a trusted relationship, has been called complex trauma, developmental trauma, or relational trauma. Childhood trauma can come in the form of physical or emotional abuse as well as physical or…