The Story in Your Eyes: The Therapist-Client Relational Field as an Energetic “Hollow Bone” for Exploring the Collective Unseen World of Trauma Origins and Re-Sources

Purpose: Trauma symptoms often have their origin in the unseen world of intergenerational, ancestral, cultural wounds, and the collective unconsciousness, while resources needed to heal those wounds reside in the Consciousness of the Universe.

The EMDR therapist-client relational field generates an energetic exchange consistent with the work of Allan Schore, a synchronization and expansion of heart consciousness (Verny, Lipton, Feinstein, McCraty) and the ability to hold and move energy (Siegel) to explore the origins of trauma and two-gather the resources available to the client in the fields of self, other, family, community, nature, the transcendent realm, and the consciousness of the universe.

Methods: 24 Individual clients, 840 sessions. During phases 1, 2, and 8 of EMDR clients were taught co-exploration and witnessing (Schore, Jung), a four-element exercise (Shapiro), and how to extend that experience of self into the expanding collective field (Hellinger, Pratt) utilizing steps of placement of internal resources into the external field, exploring experience, using 4 elements to solidify connection in the field, identifying origins and re-sources, processing trauma while pendulating between trauma of this lifetime and the source trauma of other realms.

PCL-5 administered at the beginning and end of treatment, the PCL-5 weekly during treatment, and anthropological data collected during phase 8.

Results: PCL-5 score showed significant decrease in symptomology and severity (90%). Anthropologically: quality of relationship to self and others improved, field/elemental practice had utility outside of session.

Conclusions: The “Therapist-Client “Hollow Bone” Approach” successfully discerns trauma origins and resources in the unseen realm of the collective and promotes stability during 3 phase trauma treatment (Janet).