Annual Report

Reflections About a Letter to an Inner Child “A powerful counselling intervention to understand parts of self”

Reflections about a letter to an inner child  “A powerful counselling intervention to understand parts of self.” The concept of writing a letter to your inner child as a therapeutic intervention comes from various therapeutic approaches, including inner child work and parts work. These approaches are often used in psychodynamic, Emotion-Focused Psychotherapy, psychodrama, and trauma-focused […]

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“Not Seen Not Heard” – Annual Report Article 2022-23

“Not Seen Not Heard” Child sexual abuse is an abhorrent trauma to suffer and so it is understandable mental health treatment services concentrate efforts to distance and desensitize the traumatic events but what many Phoenix clients are reporting and backed by neurological research is that attachment wounds are the more determinant factor of dissociation and […]

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2021 – E-Services

Senior Counsellor, Claudia Da Silva working from home delivering E-Service I would like to share my experiences in the pandemic times from a therapist perspective: I had so many questions and curiosities about how to work with traumatised clients in the online setting. How would the e-sessions affect my clientele? How would the organization manage […]

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2021 – Understanding and Healing All Parts of Ourselves

Judith Herman, one of the pioneers of trauma treat­ment, has been quoted saying, “It’s bad enough that our clients lost their childhood; it’s unacceptable that they lose their adulthood too.” Being overwhelmed by anxiety, anger or upset can be a regular occurrence for clients at Phoenix. Intellectually a person who is a survivor of child […]

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