Widely Used Trauma Therapies

You already have some understanding of trauma — what it is, how it works, why the body responds the way it does.

Now the question is: what actually helps?

This path surveys the major evidence-based approaches for working with trauma — what each one is, how it works, what it’s designed to address, and what it isn’t suited for.

This is not a training path. It will not make you a practitioner of any modality. What it will do is give you a clear, honest map of the landscape — so you can make informed choices about your own healing or understand the work you may already be doing with a therapist.

What you’ll find in this path:

• EMDR — how bilateral stimulation works with traumatic memory
• Somatic approaches — working with the body’s held responses
• ACT — acceptance, defusion, and values-based living
• DBT — emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills
• IFS — understanding the internal system of parts
• How these approaches relate to each other — and when each tends to be most useful

Each modality has its own sub-path. You can move through them in sequence or go directly to the one most relevant to you.

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Or choose a modality directly:

• EMDR — Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
• Somatic Approaches
• ACT — Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• DBT — Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
• IFS — Internal Family Systems
• How These Approaches Relate

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