Trauma treatment in Copenhagen

Two people, the same event, different outcomes

Whether something becomes a trauma depends on three things: how overwhelming it was, how old you were, and — most importantly — whether anyone was there afterwards. A child who is comforted often processes the event. A child who is alone with it stores it away.

That is why the question "was it bad enough to call it a trauma?" is rarely the right one. The right question is whether it is still active.

What we treat

• Single-event trauma — accidents, assaults, deaths, births that went wrong, acute incidents at work.
• Repeated trauma — violence, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, bullying over time.
• Developmental trauma — neglect, unpredictable parents, a childhood where you had to look after yourself.
• Trauma of flight and exile — where both what happened and having to start all over again are part of it.
• Secondary traumatisation — in relatives and in professionals who work with other people's trauma.

The treatment

Trauma treatment is a matter of dosage. If you get too close too quickly, the system becomes overloaded and nothing is processed — it is only relived. If you keep too much distance, nothing happens either.

In ISTDP we work on keeping you in the range where the feelings are accessible but the anxiety does not take over. It is an active, close form of therapy in which we follow what is happening in the body the whole time. Where EMDR is better suited, we use that.

As a supplement we offer REAC Neuromodulation, which aims to regulate the nervous system.