
Explore PTSD as a mental and behavioral disorder from traumatic events, its symptoms, the risk of suicide, and comorbidity with depression, anxiety, and substance use, plus diagnostic challenges.
Discover relaxation strategies to ease stress and anxiety by reducing muscle tension and shallow breathing, including breathing exercises, progressive muscle relaxation, music, meditation, yoga, mindfulness, and massage.
Practice safe place visualization to reduce stress by imagining a peaceful place with eyes closed, free from distractions for next 20 minutes, exploring sensory details to feel safe and relaxed.
Anger and trauma explore how extreme threats trigger anger as a survival mechanism, shaping emotional control, impulsivity, and aggression in PTSD survivors across work, social, and family life.
Learn to stop repetitive negative thinking and rumination by pausing, taking deep breaths, and using awareness to separate thoughts from self; then redirect energy into creative or physical activities.
Explore self-esteem, its impact on mental health and social interaction, and how childhood expectations shape it; learn to identify negative thoughts and counter them with positive facts and action plans.
Present the three phase trauma framework for PTSD: phase one safety and alliance with coping tools; phase two processing memories and meaning; phase three building personal and relational integrity.
Modify your beliefs by identifying negative assumptions and exploring their origins and consequences. Develop flexible alternatives and practical steps, such as education or exercise, to improve daily life.
Identify toxic thinking patterns as automatic thoughts that fuel self-defeating behavior. Explore jumping to conclusions, exaggerating or minimizing, disregarding important aspects, oversimplifying, overgeneralizing, mind reading, and emotional reasoning.
In this course, you will learn how to treat phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as anxiety, depression, rumination. You will learn also learn what causes phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder. Most people who go through traumatic events may have temporary difficulty adjusting and coping, but with time and good self-care, they usually get better. If the symptoms get worse, last for months or even years, and interfere with your day-to-day functioning, you may have PTSD.
Getting effective treatment after PTSD symptoms develop can be critical to reduce symptoms and improve function. There are numerous psychological issues that clients present with in therapy that have trauma at their very core. For example, there are a lot of people with obsessive compulsive disorder, various anxiety issues, depression as well as addictions that frequently have trauma as a core force that is driving them. In many cases, it might be the trauma laid down the thinking and behavioral patterns which underlie the development of depression or anxiety issues, or that led to obsessive compulsive behaviours which developed to protect the individual from experiencing similar trauma again, or addictive behaviours to block out or cope with the trauma. These people tend to get stuck in their head a lot of the time, engaging in very toxic and energy sucking behaviour such as rumination and overthinking.