Tools for Therapists and Others to Support Deep Trauma Healing
This page includes the different tools and resources I have developed to support and guide working with Complex Attachment Trauma.
Exercises and Prompts for Exploring Your Inner World of Attachment By Kina Wolfenstein, LCSW-S
Who is it for?
Both therapists and individuals doing their own healing work!
Available for both personal and professional use. The material is almost identical, but the professional use copy includes some notes for therapists to keep in mind. If you are a therapist interested in using it for both professional and personal purposes, you only need to buy the professional license, not both!
This workbook is a series of guided exercises intended to help you explore your inner world of attachment, or, if you’re a therapist, to support your clients in guiding and exploring their inner worlds of attachment. The exercises and prompts are written to take you on a journey of self-discovery and exploration by facilitating more than just reflection or analysis, and instead by guiding you into directly accessing your deep inner experiences with attachment.
Book Details:
-105 pages
-Over 150 specific prompts and exercises
-Psychoeducation on attachment, emotional learnings and trauma
A clinical toolkit for therapists for helping clients understand, map, and transform emotional flashbacks.
Who is it for?
Intended to be used by therapists to help guide/support clinical work with clients.
What’s Included
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Client handouts explaining emotional flashbacks and how healing occurs
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Flashback reflection sheet
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Comprehensive step-by-step clinician guide
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Quick-reference decision tree
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Extensive discovery and deepening prompt library
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Multi-modal interventions using somatic, imagery, parts work, reparenting, and relational approaches
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Flashback mapping and mismatch-planning worksheet
Everything you need to move from identifying a flashback to uncovering its deeper emotional roots and creating targeted experiences that support transformational change.
Who is it for?
Intended to be used by therapists to help guide/support clinical work with clients.
Two Clinical Assessment Tools - the ATHA (attachment trauma history assessment) and the CATFA (current attachment trauma functioning assessment) are tools designed to support treatment planning and discovery of attachment injuries for complex trauma therapists.
The ATHA looks at the nuances of attachment history that are often missed in more standard trauma assessments, including exploring things like emotional attunement, enmeshment and parentification. The CATFA assesses many of the symptoms of C-PTSD that can be missed by standard PTSD assessments, including things like attachment patterns, self worth and relationship with emotion.
Available in both paper and online formats, with the online versions automatically calculating composite scores for you.
Please note these tools are not peer reviewed and cannot be used for diagnostic purposes - they are a intended as a useful in-session tool to explore your clients unique history and presentation of C-PTSD and inform your treatment goals.
This tool is for therapists who already have training in Coherence Therapy OR a good understanding of memory reconsolidation as a neurobiological process for transformational change.
Facilitating juxtaposition experiences can feel intimidating and confusing when you’re still getting the hang of it. I developed this tool to break the process down into a series of micro-steps that you can work through before actually attempting a juxtaposition experience with a client. It is designed to guide your own internal process, helping you to orient yourself to where you are with the client, think through what will be necessary for transformation to occur, and identify what might help you get there.
The thinking process this tool guides you through can be summarized like this:
What exactly in this schema is disconfirmable?
What would need to become emotionally true instead?
Where could the client actually encounter knowledge capable of producing that update?
How do I make that knowledge experientially vivid?
How do I put it into direct contact with the original learning to facilitate juxtaposition?
Emotional Neglect Mapping Tool
Who is it for?
This is written to be a self-guided exploratory tool for individuals on their own healing journey,s but is also open to use by therapists to support their exploratory work with clients.
This worksheet includes some brief psychoeducation on emotional neglect and how it impacts people's relationships with their own needs, emotions and authentic selves. It guides the reader through a 4 part exploration: parts of self that were met with disconnection, how that disconnection was expressed in parental relationships, what was learned about self and others from that disconnection, and what adaptations developed as a resul