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Originally Posted by _Sky
Don't push. Going slower is fastest usually. When you push for more than what the brain can process (in the realm of trauma) you often find yourself reacting and not being able to move ahead in therapy, but spend valuable time recovering from the push instead.
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I second this, for sure. Now that T and I are deep in the trauma processing, sometimes literally an ENTIRE SESSION is spent on one detail of the trauma - like one sentence. It's not like we planned it that way ("we'll do this one sentence at a time!") but the feelings and memories around each little detail are so big and overwhelming and it takes the whole session to manage to talk about it, feel it, and get re-grounded before I can leave. Actually, I've gone for a couple of longer sessions lately, and we still usually only get to one detail - maybe just stay in the feelings a little longer.
I do think, however, if you are only seeing him once every two weeks, a longer session is worth asking about. Even seeing my T twice a week, it takes me a little time before I can really get into the trauma stuff in each session, and then there is the time to get regrounded at the end. I think that if we had two weeks between sessions, it would take me quite a bit longer to open up each time. With a longer session, you could perhaps relax a bit, and let things come out in their own time.

