Trauma

Post-Traumatic Growth: The Science of Becoming Stronger Through Struggle 

Post-Traumatic Growth
Posted on , updated on by John Hawkins Jr., M.S., L.M.H.C., M.C.A.P.

For most of the history of clinical psychology, the conversation about trauma focused almost entirely on injury. The diagnostic categories, the research, the public understanding, all of it centered on what trauma takes from people and what symptoms it produces. The injury was the appropriate place to start, and the field needed to take it… Read More

EMDR Therapy Explained: How Moving Your Eyes Can Heal Trauma

EMDR Therapy Explained
Posted on , updated on by John Hawkins Jr., M.S., L.M.H.C., M.C.A.P.

There is a moment in almost every introduction to EMDR therapy when the person sitting across from me looks slightly skeptical. I understand the reaction. The basic description of the treatment sounds, on its surface, almost implausible. You move your eyes back and forth, or follow a light, or feel alternating taps on your hands,… Read More

Thriving After Trauma: A Guide to Post-Traumatic Growth

Thriving After Trauma: A Guide to Post-Traumatic Growth
Posted on , updated on by John Hawkins Jr., M.S., L.M.H.C., M.C.A.P.

Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “The world breaks everyone and afterwards some grow strong at the broken places.” This is a poetic expression of a psychologically researched based concept known as Post Traumatic Growth developed by clinical psychologists, Dr. Richard Tedeschi and Dr. Lawrence Calhoun outlined in their seminal book, Post Traumatic Growth.  At a deeper… Read More