Group-Based Embodied Therapeutic Counseling Approaches for Treating Experience-Based Trauma

Connection awareness is vital to the neurological, physiological, and emotional growth.  Being hardwired for connection, isolating behaviors, and thoughts have been linked through the research to several mental health illnesses.  This being so, feeling heard, held, considered, and understood are all vital for emotional healing in areas of addiction, traumatic stress, and several other cognitive and emotional problems. Unprocessed grief stemming from years of avoidance and denial is a significant cause of detraction behaviors such as gambling, hyper-sexuality, gossiping, overspending, overeating, over-worrying, putting down others, road rage, and other covert and overt victim behaviors. Group therapy experiences assist clients with feeling attached and connected to a larger community. Also, it helps them to normalize their ways of seeing life in living, understanding their thoughts as collectively formed systemically, transcultural, and transgenerationally. Group therapy done correctly may assist clients with feeling safe and setting the basis for them to take the risks of trusting and committing to building healthy relationships with others in life.  Incorporating sounds, textures, and visual elements in a group therapeutic session and even interfacing with nature, which we strive to do for all sessions, influences an overall understanding within the client of treatment as self-discovery, but also the discovery of self a new, as an individual/collective member doing life with other bodies of the collective that are not so different and somewhat the same.  

What is experience-based trauma therapy?

Experience-based trauma has been proven to be the most problematic form of trauma in an individual's life.  Non-experience-based trauma and Experience-based are two very different types of trauma.  Non-experience-based trauma exposures include second-hand stories or narratives shared over time.  These types of traumatic exposures can lead to hyper-vigilance and hyper-arousal in individuals and create a kind of collective family or collective cultural reactivity experience. Experience-based trauma includes direct experiences with discrimination, physical or emotional abuse, intimidation, economic abuse, threats and coercions, community violence, issues with food, water, or housing shortages or quality of life issues, and physical and sexual abuse. Individuals' neurological, physiological, and other systems are formed by their adaptations to the strife and stress they have encountered.  The journey to wellness means that the individual in treatment should be exposed to other ways to define their past experiences, be willing to identify the strengths they developed, and create a plan for moving forward in what they would consider meaningful ways. 

What types of Trauma Therapy are provided through Feel Psychotherapies LLC?

Through Feel Psychotherapies LLC, we provide Race-Based Trauma Treatment, Sexual Trauma therapy to victims of trauma, parent-child psychotherapeutic treatment,  and other forms of trauma-informed therapeutic approaches.

Group Batterers Intervention Therapeutic Treatment

  FEEL Psychotherapies Inc. 

At FEEL Psychotherapies, we offer energetic and holistic treatment models for individuals through our organization. Individuals are encouraged to see themselves fully as intricate parts of their children, family members, and partners' lives. Our treatment includes learning about and discussing transgenerational influences contributing to one's abusive behaviors. Meetings focus on learning skills associated with the internal formation of empathetic regard and compassion for others. Individuals learn helpful conflict resolution skills and other skills needed to regulate emotions and shift unhealthy thought patterns. Teaching clients about the devastating outcomes of abuse to their children and spouses' lives is vital to influencing behavioral changes in themselves.

Domestic Violence Statistics

An average of 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States — more than 12 million women and men over a single year.

Nearly 3 in 10 women (29%) and 1 in 10 men (10%) in the US have experienced rape, physical violence, and stalking by a partner and reported it having a related impact on their functioning.

Just under 15% of women (14.8%) and 4% of men in the US have been injured as a result of intimate partner violence, which included rape, physical violence, and stalking by an intimate partner.

1 in 4 women (24.3%) and 1 in 7 men (13.8%) aged 18 and older in the US have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.

Intimate partner violence alone affects more than 12 million people every year.

Over 1 in 3 women (35.6%) and 1 in 4 men (28.5%) in the US have experienced rape, physical violence, and stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.

Almost half of all women and men in the US have experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime (48.4% and 48.8%, respectively).

Women ages 18 to 24 and 25 to 34 generally experience the highest rates of intimate partner violence. From 1994 to 2010, approximately 4 in 5 victims of intimate partner violence were female.

Most female victims of intimate partner violence were previously victimized by the same offender at rates of 77% for women ages 18 to 24, 76% for ages 25 to 34, and 81% for ages 35 to 49.

All stats above were pulled from: ("Domestic domestic violence statistics."  Thehotline.org, https://www.thehotline.org/stakeholders/domestic-violence-statistics. 22, November 2024.)

The Power and Control Wheel is a diagram that illustrates the tactics abusers use to gain and maintain power and control over their victims. The wheel was developed in the 1980s by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, Minnesota. It's a tool used to understand domestic violence and how abusers operate.

The wheel has two parts: the inner Ring, which involves Subtle, continual behaviors over time, and the Outer Ring, which involves Physical and sexual violence.

The wheel assumes that abusive behavior can happen to people of any gender or sexuality. Some examples of abusive tactics include intimidation, emotional abuse, isolation, minimizing, denying, blaming, using children, using gender privilege, economic abuse, coercion, and threats.

Definition of a Batterer's Education Program

In Florida, the Batterer's Intervention Program (BIP) is a 29-week/6-month intensive program designed and monitored by the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF). The program purports to address the root causes of domestic violence and prevent participants from committing acts of domestic violence in the future.