When a client freezes during a session, how do you help them come out of their trauma response (without further triggering them)?

This can be challenging because proximity, movement, and eye contact can all feel threatening to a client who is frozen and hyper-aware of danger.

Stephen Porges, PhD, shares two key steps you can take to help bring your client out of freeze.

He’ll also get into what to do when your own body and nervous system start reacting to your client’s freezing (which can derail treatment).

Having strategies that allow you to effectively work with a client’s nervous system can have a profound impact on the treatment of trauma.