Healing trauma - A personal journey

Safe spaces
As counsellors there is such need for our taking
such a role in the lives of others, to bring a safe
place to grow, heal from but also to learn about life
from too. As we increasingly embrace our call to
‘heal the sick’ within a holistic approach, we trust
that the outcome for each person, couple or family
we work with will have a ripple effect as they learn
how to relate better with others in their lives.
There is clearly a need for both the role of
counselling and therapeutic input in a range of
settings, to individuals and couples, but further
group settings too. Beyond this, I am also extremely
grateful to the Lord for a dear Brazilian pastor and
friend who has introduced me to the role of pastoral
counselling and inner healing which, alongside
remaining in scripture, walking with the Lord and
through counselling, has served to leave me feeling
‘safer in my skin’ than I could have ever imagined.
As you continue in your call to care, may it be that
the God “who is able to do immeasurably more
than all we ask or imagine, according to his power
that is at work within us” (Ephesians 3:20), fill you
with the fullness of him so that he does beyond
what you could have imagined was possible.
References
1. de Souza Borges, Marcus. (2009)
Approved By God. Brazil: YWAM
Publishing.
2. van der Kolk, Bessel A. (1994), ‘The
Body Keeps the Score: Memory
and the evolving psychobiology
of posttraumatic stress’,
Harvard Review of Psychiatry,
1, 5, pp. 253-265. Available at:
DOI:10.3109/10673229409017088
(Accessed 26 January 2024).
3. Wears, Charlotte. (2021), ‘Working with
the Waverley integrative framework
(WIF). Exploring the experience of
counsellors, trained in the WIF, in
incorporating the framework into
their therapeutic practice’, Waverley
Abbey College Journal, 1, 2. Available
at: DOI:10.52456/WACJO124 (Accessed
26 January 2024).
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