Working with Childhood Memories and Avoidance in Trauma Counselling
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-08989-6 (ISBN)
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Childhood history often serves as a record and a preliminary foundation for therapeutic work, yet childhood memories rarely become substantial material for ongoing exploration. This leaves childhood "ghosts" hidden, unattended, and unexplored—yet powerful drivers of psychological symptoms that keep individuals stuck and make trauma difficult to treat. To address this, Mikhailouskaya offers a trauma counselling framework built on two key pillars: working with early memories and actively engaging with the avoidance that naturally arises around them. Filled with actionable insights, strategies, and case examples, the text provides a roadmap for addressing hard-to-reach trauma cases and resolving key therapeutic dilemmas, such as balancing client choice with therapeutic expertise and navigating the tension between avoidance, clinical judgment, and the guidance needed to support recovery.
Designed to transcend any single therapeutic approach, this book is an engaging read for psychotherapists, counsellors, and mental health practitioners seeking to enhance their practice with a deeper understanding of the role memories and avoidance play in trauma recovery.
Kate Mikhailouskaya is an existential psychoanalytic psychotherapist specializing in childhood and complex trauma. Drawing on her extensive experience working with refugees, asylum seekers, and women in custody, she offers focused support and practical tools for those suffering from post-traumatic stress and other maladaptive effects of trauma. Alongside her clinical work, she develops and leads professional workshops for counsellors and psychotherapists and provides clinical supervision to practitioners supporting clients in trauma recovery, offering guidance and expertise in the complexities of childhood and complex trauma counselling.
About the Cover
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Childhood Focus: Exposing Hidden Trauma.
1. The Haunting Echoes of Childhood Ghosts
2. How Can Childhood Memories Be of Service?
3. The Invisible Trauma of ‘Unremarkable’ Childhoods
4. ‘What if?’ Keeping Ghosts in Their Closets
Part 2: The Power of Remembering: Working with Childhood Memories
5. Elusive Ghosts: Reporting Versus Zooming In
6. Pulling Ghosts from Their Closets
7. ‘What if?’ The Risks and Rewards of Remembering
Part 3: Avoidance Unmasked: How to Identify, Understand, and Respond Therapeutically
8. Humans and Their Natural Avoidance
9. The Taboos
10. Fear of Loss
11. Desire to Move On
12. ’What if?’ The Hidden Intelligence of Avoidance
Part 4: Therapy as a Chance to Heal. Give it your best shot! (Counsellor’s Role)
13. ‘Judge Judy’
14. Counsellor as an Active Participant
15. ‘What if?’ Exploring the Practitioner Responibility
Part 5: Therapy as a Chance to Heal. Give it your best shot! (Client’s Role)
16. Mental Health Services and Consumers
17. Raising a Capable Self-Parent
18. Counselling That Goes Beyond Appointments: Central, Not Sideline Task
19. ‘What if?’ The Heavy Demands of Trauma Work
20. Conclusion
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.7.2026 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-041-08989-9 / 1041089899 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-041-08989-6 / 9781041089896 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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