Thrive the Podcast
Are you surviving or thriving? Join me, Rebecca Kase, licensed psychotherapist, author, trauma expert, yoga instructor, and learn how to thrive in your life. I bring you expert knowledge along with my own lived experience of what it means to go from surviving to thriving. We’ll explore what it means to thrive in the face of challenges, how to apply psychology and neuroscience to building a resilient nervous system, and how to use the Thrive 5 to create your best life.
Thrive the Podcast
5 Things I’ve Learned as a Trauma Therapist
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Rebecca Kase
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Season 1
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Episode 20
Here is what was covered in this episode:
- My top five lessons learned from my 20 years as a trauma therapist.
- I share my background, including my education and experiences in trauma therapy, starting from grad school.
- Hear how I became interested in trauma work, initially sparked by my own experiences and further deepened by reading “Trauma and Recovery” by Judith Herman.
- Neuroplasticity and how our brains can change and heal through new experiences and coping strategies is an incredible human asset to have!
- The power of human resilience and how people are often much stronger than we assume, even after experiencing severe trauma, is humbling.
- Don’t make meaning of someone else’s story or path! Let people find their own way, for it is only through the process of healing that we can discover some of the most valuable lessons.
- Find balance in helping others, ensuring not to walk someone else’s path for them, but to support and empower them.
- I stress the significance of relationships in therapy, especially the unique, safe, and supportive relationship between a therapist and a client.