Client Handouts

Selecting a therapist is an important decision to be made with great care. This handout provides a framework for choosing a therapist who is a good match for your goals.

Your therapist may use this document during your informed consent conversation.

To help the partner understand the support necessary during trauma recovery.

The THIC provides essential information about the benefits and limitations of treating abusive or traumatic history.

The Family Life Check-Up helps you assess your current family reality to begin making changes.

Simple reference page of the symbols you'll use to draw your genogram.

Autonomy and personal power are essential for our mental health. Trauma's primary violation is the loss of power and resulting helplessness. Evaluate how you react or reenact.

The FAMILI Exercise is a comprehensive inventory of feelings, attitudes, messages, impressions, and lessons learned during early childhood.

Document for a guided separation for therapeutic purposes.

Understand the ways in which trauma and abuse can impact spirituality.

The principle of Holes & Piles is an easy way to understand how your childhood experience has impacted your life.

The four main tools we use for hiding from pain: Denial, Minimization, Rationalization, and Dissociation.

This handout shows Jesus support for the pursuit of health and self-care, contrary to some churches' teachings.

Recovery from the deep hurt of trauma requires that we walk two paths: the Thinking Path and the Feeling Path.

Forgiveness is widely misunderstood. Forgiveness that allows for healing follows these six steps.

Your mind and limbic system integrate traumatic experiences in a predictable way.