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Innovation in Treatment:
In 2001, Dr. Sara Aharon, pioneered a group-based
nightmare processing and re-scripting treatment for military clients suffering
from Post Traumatic Stress Disorders and Addictions at Bellwood Health Services
in Toronto with great results. This was an extension of her experience in
nightmare re-scripting with individual clients in her private practice. She has
since taught this technique to psychologists, physicians, psychiatrists, GP
psychotherapists social workers and nurses, as well as, numerous
clients.
In 2006 Dr. Aharon was the first to introduce Energy
Psychology modalities as the primary tool for symptoms down-regulation in an
Addiction/Trauma rehabilitation setting in Canada, pioneering this work with
military clients with severe PTSD who found little or no relief with other
commonly used approaches such as exposure therapy, CBT or even EMDR. She
expanded the tool bags that clinicians can draw on and has been pro-actively
sharing her clinical findings and successes with the health care community
through conferences and training seminars.
Building on years of training and experience, Dr.
Aharon developed a unique and highly effective approach to treating extreme
emotional stress, including PTSD symptoms. The guiding principles include the
idea of minimizing unnecessary exposure, building safety and a wide range of
resources prior to any exposure to unresolved material and being tuned into the
client?s response to treatment at all times. The unique approach she uses:
combining Energy Psychology modalities with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and
Somatic Processing works quite differently then traditional psychological
modalities. Working on present issues with these modalities, while making
connections to general feelings or experiences of the past results often in
releasing and resolving of past psychological trauma without having to dig
through the wounds. Clients find this surprising and are relieved when they
realize they no longer have to look forward to highly triggering sessions of
exposure therapy which leave them overwhelmed and exhausted for
days.
Dr. Sara Aharon, Psychologist, ©2008
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