Trauma Treatment in Thailand

So even though I was running the men's village, I would do EMDR at the, we had a 20 bed LGBTQ plus village.

So I would do it there.

We had a young men's village.

I would do EMDR with the guys there.

We had a women's village and they hired another EMDR therapist.

So we started doing peer therapy.

sort of supervision and support with each other because we were the two people doing it.

And I just started becoming more and more trauma-informed, and it really...

Reflecting on, at that point, my career, I was seeing this thread, this through line from all of my clients and from my own personal recovery.

I'd sat in lots of rooms.

Like I was a 12 step member and I'd hear people say, I'm not comfortable in my own skin.

And I always thought like, that doesn't just happen for no reason.

Like that's, and I thought that's a trauma thing.

You aren't born uncomfortable in your own skin.

Like something's happened where you're not feeling comfortable and then you end up self-soothing, medicating yourself with that.

And I started seeing like the trauma is just the through line.

And so I started really focusing on training a lot around the trauma.

I mean, I had at that point worked for over 10 years in the addiction space.

I was clean for over 10 years.

Felt like I had a pretty good grasp on that stuff.

And Just started seeing it like the trauma is what underpins the addiction.

And so did lots of training, more advanced EMDR trainings, did some training in Singapore, did some training in Australia, training with some trainers out of the Netherlands.

And then a lot of like trauma and complex trauma training and training.

internal family systems, structural dissociation of the personality, parts work, and Then COVID hit, and a big private rehab that relies on international clients isn't going to make it through lockdowns.

So, you know, they put us all kind of on furlough, and I just moved to private practice online, really focusing on the EMDR and IFS, the internal family systems, and going for the underlying trauma.

So even though I was running the men's village, I would do EMDR at the, we had a 20 bed LGBTQ plus village.

So I would do it there.

We had a young men's village.

I would do EMDR with the guys there.

We had a women's village and they hired another EMDR therapist.

So we started doing peer therapy.

sort of supervision and support with each other because we were the two people doing it.

And I just started becoming more and more trauma-informed, and it really...

Reflecting on, at that point, my career, I was seeing this thread, this through line from all of my clients and from my own personal recovery.

I'd sat in lots of rooms.

Like I was a 12 step member and I'd hear people say, I'm not comfortable in my own skin.

And I always thought like, that doesn't just happen for no reason.

Like that's, and I thought that's a trauma thing.

You aren't born uncomfortable in your own skin.

Like something's happened where you're not feeling comfortable and then you end up self-soothing, medicating yourself with that.

And I started seeing like the trauma is just the through line.

And so I started really focusing on training a lot around the trauma.

I mean, I had at that point worked for over 10 years in the addiction space.

I was clean for over 10 years.

Felt like I had a pretty good grasp on that stuff.

And Just started seeing it like the trauma is what underpins the addiction.

And so did lots of training, more advanced EMDR trainings, did some training in Singapore, did some training in Australia, training with some trainers out of the Netherlands.

And then a lot of like trauma and complex trauma training and training.

internal family systems, structural dissociation of the personality, parts work, and Then COVID hit, and a big private rehab that relies on international clients isn't going to make it through lockdowns.

So, you know, they put us all kind of on furlough, and I just moved to private practice online, really focusing on the EMDR and IFS, the internal family systems, and going for the underlying trauma.