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Dr. Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Psychotrauma & Psychoneuroimmunology
From August 2019 posts are posted on the ETI Psychology Today blog
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Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Aug 25, 20191 min read
Trauma on Vacation
What I have learned as a trauma survivor on vacation Growing up with developmental trauma I enjoyed the idea of traveling more than...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Jul 31, 20191 min read
Back to School With a Sensitive Kid?
Here are six ideas to manage routines in the school year. We are creatures of habit and everyone struggles with transitions to a certain...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Jul 8, 20192 min read
What Parents Should Know About Infections and Mental Health
Some children and teens are needlessly told that something is wrong with them while they actually suffer from an underlying infection.
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Jun 4, 201910 min read
Inflammation and Mental Health Symptoms
What you need to know about the root causes of mental health symptoms A decade ago, soon after I moved to Africa, I got sick a lot. I had...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
May 6, 20195 min read
Adults Suffering from Developmental Trauma
Secure attunement framework for adult survivors of developmental trauma. After my two blog posts on Developmental Trauma (blog 1, post...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Apr 2, 20195 min read
Happiness Is Not a Destination
Mental Health Response Sometimes Make Things Worse. Time for a Paradigm Shift Like others, I read social media posts, magazines, and...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Mar 4, 20195 min read
The Pain of Trauma
After Winter Comes Spring What can a trauma survivor do when the pain of past trauma resurfaces and nothing works to make it better? As a...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Feb 2, 201910 min read
What is Trauma?
What you need to know about trauma, and trauma therapy. Every week I am contacted by people struggling with the aftermath of trauma. Most...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Jan 4, 20195 min read
Why You Should Be Mindless in 2019
Mindfulness and Mindlessness After Trauma One of the most dismaying results of trauma is that it often takes away from survivors things...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Nov 30, 20185 min read
The Body and Trauma
While it is a source of pain, it also may be a resource for healing. Trauma deeply challenges the confidence of most survivors in...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Nov 6, 20185 min read
If Trauma Is Transgenerational, So Are Resilience and PTG
Expand your perspective on resilience and post-traumatic growth. There is a lot being written these days on post-traumatic growth (PTG)...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Aug 21, 20188 min read
What Is Developmental Trauma?
A framework for building secure attunement. Trauma therapists inevitably work with children and adults suffering from developmental...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Jul 25, 20186 min read
I May Not Be the Right Therapist for You
Choose a trauma therapy approach and not a modality. Every week I am contacted by people from around the world desperate to find...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Jun 24, 20185 min read
The Costs of Early Life Trauma
I am an immigrant. Married for over 10 years to an American husband, I am a therapist, teacher, trainer, and blogger. You might think...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
May 14, 20186 min read
When is Therapy Inappropriate After Trauma?
Therapists are often contacted by people who have recently experienced a “critical incident”. Accidents, crime, violence, death,...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Apr 20, 20185 min read
How to Maintain Progress After Trauma
A long quest to make the pain of trauma go away is part of the story for many trauma survivors. I know this story well because it’s also...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Apr 1, 20189 min read
How Do You Lay a Foundation for Trauma Processing?
Clients are often surprised when I tell them that we won’t be actively working to bring their trauma history to the surface in therapy. ...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Feb 28, 20186 min read
Trauma Survivors: Your Feelings are a Normal Response to an Abnormal Situation
Life has landed you in the community of trauma survivors. None of us is here by choice, but we do choose to support each other. From my...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Jan 18, 20187 min read
Experiential Self-Regulation in Trauma Therapy
Emotions, Feelings, Sensations, and Self-Regulation Self-regulation is the ability to manage extreme emotions (positive or negative...
Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Dec 18, 201711 min read
Attachment and Developmental Trauma: A Framework for Building Secure Attunement
For therapists working with clients with complex or developmental trauma, advances of the last decade in understandings of attachment...
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