which types of therapy were most successful?

[onlytherain]

Both my children have had EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy) and of all the therapies they have done, which were quite a few, EMDR really stands out as the one that has had the biggest impact on their trauma. It was life changing. Sessions are very tough and neither are keen on sessions, but when something horrific happened to my daughter recently, she immediately said she wanted to have EMDR sessions to process it. My other daughter also found clinical hypnosis (not hypnotherapy) helpful.

I was wondering what your childrens' experiences with different therapy types are. Which ones were most helpful? Did one style stand out?

My daughter had something similar to EMDR, but involving tapping. I think it helped, but my under is it only really covers incidents the subject can remember, not pre verbal stuff.

We did finial therapy when the girls were very young and that worked amazingly well with my younger daughter but didn't touch my elder daughter.

My son had Theraplay at age 6. It was great and cut his outburst etc down by 50%.

https://www.theraplay.org.uk/

Different things at different ages. Theraplay was fantastic shortly after placement, DDP was really good aged 10/11 and therapeutic life story work now my DD is a teenager. All had their challenges but have proved to be effective.