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In therapy, we see how relationships are central to many traumatic experiences, but relationships are also critical to trauma recovery. Grounded firmly in attachment and trauma theory, this book shows how to use the psychotherapy relationship, to help clients find self-understanding and healing from trauma. Offering candid, personal guidance, using rich case examples, Dr. Robert T. Muller provides the steps needed to build and maintain a strong therapist-client relationship –one that helps bring recovery and growth. With a host of practical tips and protocols, this book gives therapists a roadmap to effective trauma treatment.

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Dr. Robert T. Muller has provided a gem of a book for clinicians working with persons who have experience psychological trauma. It is beautifully written, drawing on the accumulated wisdom of experts in the trauma field, and richly illustrated with descriptions of his work with clients. Dr. Muller explores the complex relational dynamics of work with traumatized patients and charts a thoughtful course to their treatment. His wisdom clearly comes from deep understanding of how his clients have experienced their lives, and his skill in walking with them through the process of recovery.--James Chu, MD, Consultant in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School 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.--Kathy Steele, MN, Past President, International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation 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.--Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, York University

"""One of the great strengths of this accessible, fluidly written book is the way it honours the extremity and reality of posttraumatic stress, while also recognising the possibility and integrity of what he terms ‘post-traumatic growth’."" -- SCAP"

Dr. Robert T. Muller has provided a gem of a book for clinicians working with persons who have experience psychological trauma. It is beautifully written, drawing on the accumulated wisdom of experts in the trauma field, and richly illustrated with descriptions of his work with clients. Dr. Muller explores the complex relational dynamics of work with traumatized patients and charts a thoughtful course to their treatment. His wisdom clearly comes from deep understanding of how his clients have experienced their lives, and his skill in walking with them through the process of recovery.--James Chu, MD, Consultant in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School 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.--Kathy Steele, MN, Past President, International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation 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.--Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, York University Thoughtful and nuanced. . . . Muller's writing helps to underscore the knowledge that there are many pathways to healing, and that our approach to treatment needs to honor the path of the person in front of us.--Dana Ross, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Psychiatrist, Trauma Therapy Program Lecturer, University of Toronto Drawing on relevant research and richly illustrated case studies, Muller's book beautifully demonstrates that in trauma, the healing is in the relationship. . . . Essential reading for therapists of all disciplines. One of the great strengths of this accessible, fluidly written book is the way it honours the extremity and reality of posttraumatic stress, while also recognising the possibility and integrity of what he terms 'post-traumatic growth'. . . trauma work is full of unexpected twists and turns. Here is a sound resource to help us navigate them.

""One of the great strengths of this accessible, fluidly written book is the way it honours the extremity and reality of posttraumatic stress, while also recognising the possibility and integrity of what he terms ‘post-traumatic growth’."" -- SCAP

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Robert T. Muller, Ph.D. is author of the award-winning psychotherapy bestseller, Trauma & the Avoidant Client, as well as numerous articles on trauma, attachment, and psychotherapy. Professor of Clinical Psychology at York University, & Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation, Dr. Muller is lead investigator on several multi-site programs to treat interpersonal trauma. An international speaker, with over 30 years in the field, he practices in downtown Toronto.

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