Providing Safety and Support

The experience of safety is a prerequisite for processing traumatic experiences and healing from trauma. Hence, safety is the basis of any trauma treatment. As already mentioned, the development of a healing therapeutic relationship requires the experience of safety; this is necessary for our clients to make new positive experiences, learn new things and develop. We should therefore do everything to enable them to feel safe with us. Certain conditions are required for this, which go beyond the elimination of real threats (Porges 2019). Essential here are signals of safety that have a calming effect on our clients´ autonomous nervous system.