I have to say that the blanket has been the most helpful thing that my reg T has done. I use it everyday and it has kept me safe and has helped me feel connected to humans and loved and warm
Also the session about phone calls and talking about what I needed when I called as in a call back. She let me know her schedule the best time to leave a message, and we talked about what would happened if she was to busy to talk (she would call and tell me and would tell me when she could call) we talked about urgent things and how i could write them and drop them off at her office if she was busy and couldnt call. We talked about how I dont like feeling rushed on a phone call as it makes me feel scared. I also told her that if her voice sounds really tired that I wuld feel like she was mad at me so she said to ask her about her voice if it was different. ( I am really sensative to slight changes in someones voice a skill I learned as a kid to stay safe) and she said that she would try and protec me from the stress at her job when she calls and her voice is stressed but she cant always and I need to tell her what I am hearing. That has helped.
WIth my emdr T she writes things down in a step by step style that I can follow when I need to. She has done this for sadness anger flashbacks suicidal feelings. She does this when she leaves for a week by writing what a god job I am doing.
Another things is she got the huge pad of paper like the kind u use in presentaions and I use it for anger. I draw whatever. When your mad having a small peice of paper at least for m is sufficating but the big paper is huge and you can scribble and draw and she sits with me on the floor and sometimes I find that the words follow so easily after or during this.
Im sure I will have more but thats it for now. ((HUG))