VANCOUVER—A local therapist says reframing our cultural understanding of how trauma works is fundamental to creating institutional and personal strategies for healing that truly work.
While there is a growing awareness in Canadian workplaces and communities about the prevalence of trauma in both personal and occupational contexts, a nuanced understanding of healing is still in the early stages, says Barbara Allyn, a certified trauma therapist and crisis intervention worker based in Vancouver.
“There’s tons of people getting trauma-informed out there,” Allyn told StarMetro. “But (people) don’t know what to do about it next. It’s like you’re giving somebody a tool and they go, ‘I don’t know what to do with this. I get that it’s a tool, but I don’t know where to go from there.’”
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