Our Case Consult Specialities Include:

A compassionate and ethical approach to adults reporting or presenting with possible indicators of extreme stress, child abuse or trauma (includes informed consent)

Creating a 'safe enough' environment to do challenging work

Setting and maintaining healthy boundaries for the client and health professional

Appreciating the psychological dynamics of extreme stress and abuse

Addressing the potential for trauma re-enactment in the counselling setting

Facilitating client participation in session planning, goal-setting and regular review/evaluation

Transforming self-injury / self-mutilation

Healthy expression of feelings (anger, grief etc.)

Working with hostile, persecutory and apparent-sabotaging presentations of client's internal system

Supporting healthy relationships, sexuality and parenting

Responsibly and accurately addressing the delayed memory controversy - issues in therapy/counselling; with colleagues and others

Empathic management of client requests for validation of surfacing traumatic memories

Understanding issues and facilitating healing for male & female victims/survivors & perpetrators

Specific issues in PTSD, Dissociative Disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder

Working successfully with clients reporting Organized Sadistic Abuse, involvement in sex-rings, paedophile groups, child prostitution and mind control or brainwashing

Transference and Counter-transference

Professional self-care: Vicarious Traumatization / Secondary PTSD