“What psychotherapy is best for PTSD?”
I was diagnosed with PTSD. I served in the military for 7 years. What psychotherapy is best for PTSD?
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The 2 best types of treatment for PTSD are cognitive therapy and EMDR. Look for a counselor that is trained and certified as an EMDR counselor.
Emdr is proven to be most effective however other modalities also work great, depending on what the client needs.
Hello,
I would recommend EMDR therapy for PTSD
Thank you
Sarah
I would recommend EMDR therapy for PTSD
Thank you
Sarah
Thank you for your question! The best psychotherapy for PTSD varies according to an individual's specific case. A trauma-informed/focused therapy is known as being evidence-based to better manage and help heal from PTSD. As the individual is not their diagnosis, so receiving a thorough evaluation that includes an understanding of their background information is important to determine what interventions may be utilized during the therapeutic process. Several other forms of psychotherapy have been effective such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and even Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I recommend meeting with a therapist. Choose to remain open and honest with your background and share your preferences so that the therapist can collaborate with you on helping to meet your needs with healing from PTSD. Take care for now!
Sultana Pecherskaya
Counselor/Therapist
EMDR is most commonly recommended for individuals with PTSD.
Hi, I typically recommend seeing someone who specializes in anxiety and is
certified to do EMDR for PTSD.
certified to do EMDR for PTSD.
For PTSD there is CBT Cognitive behavioral therapy is the most effective one. At ChoicePoint we have many successful recovery PTSD patients with CBT.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy is an effective, brief therapy protocol that is especially useful in reducing symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress. https://acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com/
Hello How are you?
Sorry to hear your suffering from PTSD but I recommend Individual trauma-focused psychotherapies, particularly Prolonged Exposure (PE), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) as the most effective treatments for PTSD.
Sorry to hear your suffering from PTSD but I recommend Individual trauma-focused psychotherapies, particularly Prolonged Exposure (PE), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) as the most effective treatments for PTSD.
EMDR , Mindfulness and Trauma Focused CBT. These methods typically help you reframe the recurring thoughts, manage and recognize triggers and create a plan to help you manage the intense feelings that come up.
Trauma-focused Psychotherapies are the most highly recommended type of treatment for PTSD. Trauma-focused means that the treatment focuses on the memory of the traumatic event or its meaning.
It is difficult to name one type of therapy that works best for everyone diagnosed with PTSD. There has been research that indicates CBT talk therapy, neurofeedback and EMDR all are therapies to try to decrease symptoms.
Hello, The best types of therapy for PTSD are Mindfulness-Based Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. These will help the individual work by focusing on the present and identifying triggers that bring about the stressors related to trauma and ease the tension that comes with it.
You are preaching to the choir. I understand for I also served under sponsorship and dealt with that. In my opinion and experience, the licensed traditional way does not work. Psychotherapy is not a licensed route that is more of dealing with past issues. EFT, energy medicine, certified spiritual holistic health doctors certified in the area of beyond or a metaphysician, dream experts, also tele talk, meditation, crystal healing. The war is not about traditional types of mental health. We deal with the spiritual and that's something you might want to consider. Heal and cleanse the dark energies, etc.
Hi,
Thank you for your question. PTSD can be resolved through different therapeutic approaches, including Somatic Experiencing (SE), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Within CBT, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Prolonged Exposure (PE) are recommended. Medications have also been found to be helpful in relieving symptoms of PTSD, particularly antidepressants with the strongest evidence supporting Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs). Some of the most common symptoms of trauma targeted by psychotherapy and pharmacological interventions include: reliving the traumatic experience through flashbacks, avoidance of people and places that trigger the trauma, intrusive memories or nightmares, insomnia, anxiety, numbness, loss of interest, and depression.
I hope this information has been helpful!
Best,
Jenna Torres, PsyD
Thank you for your question. PTSD can be resolved through different therapeutic approaches, including Somatic Experiencing (SE), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Within CBT, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Prolonged Exposure (PE) are recommended. Medications have also been found to be helpful in relieving symptoms of PTSD, particularly antidepressants with the strongest evidence supporting Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs). Some of the most common symptoms of trauma targeted by psychotherapy and pharmacological interventions include: reliving the traumatic experience through flashbacks, avoidance of people and places that trigger the trauma, intrusive memories or nightmares, insomnia, anxiety, numbness, loss of interest, and depression.
I hope this information has been helpful!
Best,
Jenna Torres, PsyD
Thank you for your service! Typically, the best psychotherapy for PTSD would be a combination of cognitive and exposure therapies. The cognitive piece would focus on helping the person become aware of maladaptive thinking patterns and learn skills/techniques to challenge these patterns and reframe the thoughts and beliefs to ones that are healthy.
The exposure part is very important as well. It is common to experience nightmares, flashbacks, triggers, and get stuck in dissociative patterns associated with memories from traumatic things that have happened in the past. This often happens when the person remembers the traumatic experience(s) but keeps replaying the scary part in their mind over and over again like a broken record. With exposure therapy, we talk about the trauma is detail but we don’t stop at the scary part. We keep going… we talk through the part when the rescue team arrived… when the person got pulled out to safety… woke up from the coma… got to the hospital… survived to tell the story… We keep repeating the story again and again until it’s no longer “too intolerable” to speak about and we make sure to keep talking through the story past the trauma part all the way through until the end. The goal is to be able to talk about it until we can do so at a SUDS (subjective unit of distress) level of about 30% on a 0-10 scale of anxiety.
The exposure part is very important as well. It is common to experience nightmares, flashbacks, triggers, and get stuck in dissociative patterns associated with memories from traumatic things that have happened in the past. This often happens when the person remembers the traumatic experience(s) but keeps replaying the scary part in their mind over and over again like a broken record. With exposure therapy, we talk about the trauma is detail but we don’t stop at the scary part. We keep going… we talk through the part when the rescue team arrived… when the person got pulled out to safety… woke up from the coma… got to the hospital… survived to tell the story… We keep repeating the story again and again until it’s no longer “too intolerable” to speak about and we make sure to keep talking through the story past the trauma part all the way through until the end. The goal is to be able to talk about it until we can do so at a SUDS (subjective unit of distress) level of about 30% on a 0-10 scale of anxiety.
Hello and thank you for your question and your service,
There are several therapies that have been shown to be effective with treating PTSD. EMDR, Cognitive Behavioral, and ACT are a few that are recommended and show evidence of symptom reduction. Group therapy is also effective as the support of others living with PTSD is also effective in conjunction with therapy.
Thank you,
Patricia Harris | MA, MS, LPC
There are several therapies that have been shown to be effective with treating PTSD. EMDR, Cognitive Behavioral, and ACT are a few that are recommended and show evidence of symptom reduction. Group therapy is also effective as the support of others living with PTSD is also effective in conjunction with therapy.
Thank you,
Patricia Harris | MA, MS, LPC
Hello, I would recommend an Evidenced Based Practice called Cognitive Processing Therapy. It has been found to work very effectively with PTSD. It is also a method that is highly supported by the VA.
EMDR, which is called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reproccessing is gaining popularity and might be helpful. However, there are many types of psychotherapy that can be used for treating PTSD. Some include coping skill development to manage symptoms, psychoeducation of the impact of trauma on the self, especially on brain functioning, and trauma focused CBT, to name a few. Many of these methods are often combined with support and active listening, to enable clients to process and release their trauma.
See this link...
https://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/treat/txessentials/overview_therapy.asp#:~:text=(1)%20The%20CPG%20recommends%20individual,most%20effective%20treatments%20for%20PTSD.
https://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/treat/txessentials/overview_therapy.asp#:~:text=(1)%20The%20CPG%20recommends%20individual,most%20effective%20treatments%20for%20PTSD.
