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Trauma and the Avoidant Client:
Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing
How to effectively engage
traumatized clients who avoid
attachment, closeness, & painful feelings
(International Society
for the Study of
Trauma & Dissociation)
Praise for Trauma and the Avoidant Client (Click to Expand)
“Clinically perceptive, theoretically clear, and research-informed, this book is filled with clinical gems.”
“In this sensitive yet intellectually robust volume Muller shows, in the face of loss and trauma, how self-defeating and health-endangering avoidant strategies can be… A major, highly accessible contribution to the attachment literature and required reading for all mental health clinicians.”
Praise for Trauma and the Avoidant Client (Click to Expand)
“Clinically perceptive, theoretically clear, and research-informed, this book is filled with clinical gems.”
“In this sensitive yet intellectually robust volume Muller shows, in the face of loss and trauma, how self-defeating and health-endangering avoidant strategies can be… A major, highly accessible contribution to the attachment literature and required reading for all mental health clinicians.”
Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up:
From Avoidance to Recovery and Growth
How to navigate the therapeutic relationship
with trauma survivors, to help bring
recovery and growth.
(International Society
for the Study of
Trauma & Dissociation)
Praise for Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up (Click to Expand)
“An incredibly useful book showing you how to understand and manage therapy with relational trauma. Grounded in attachment theory, trauma theory, and psychotherapy research, it demonstrates the importance of repair of relationship difficulties.”
“Every therapist interested in helping clients with developmental trauma should read this book. A jewel of clinical wisdom, it focuses not only the content of trauma, but on the relational process of being with highly traumatized clients, and how to understand and work with the many avoidance strategies to dealing with trauma that we encounter in therapy. An approachable, culturally sensitive, and compassionate book, full of clinical vignettes, it illustrates the neglected but essential need to stay with the process: what a client feels when telling the story, how the client experiences telling the story to someone else, what happens in the therapeutic relationship when the client tells the story. A joy to read.”
Praise for Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up (Click to Expand)
“An incredibly useful book showing you how to understand and manage therapy with relational trauma. Grounded in attachment theory, trauma theory, and psychotherapy research, it demonstrates the importance of repair of relationship difficulties.”
“Every therapist interested in helping clients with developmental trauma should read this book. A jewel of clinical wisdom, it focuses not only the content of trauma, but on the relational process of being with highly traumatized clients, and how to understand and work with the many avoidance strategies to dealing with trauma that we encounter in therapy. An approachable, culturally sensitive, and compassionate book, full of clinical vignettes, it illustrates the neglected but essential need to stay with the process: what a client feels when telling the story, how the client experiences telling the story to someone else, what happens in the therapeutic relationship when the client tells the story. A joy to read.”