VIDEO: How STRT can support Self Soothing

Jan Normanton • July 25, 2023

So, self soothing is a really important factor in this day and age and my STRT Stress & Trauma Resolution Therapy supports clients with self soothing through co-regulation.



I’m able to afford clients the opportunity to feel how it can feel to be soothed, to be nervous system regulated in the here and now and to take that forward for themselves, and to show and model how that can be done through different means, which is not necessarily externally influenced. 

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