Posts by Leland Howe

We are beginning to realize, as a result of studying how the human brain and the rest of the human body work together, that we have no real chance of…

When I began searching for a therapy and therapist to help me heal my childhood trauma, I consulted with a cognitive behavioral therapist who had written a best selling book…

One of the drawbacks of doing a full on Energetic Therapy of restructuring the body to heal childhood trauma is that it can be expensive. Consulting with trauma therapists who…

Milton H. Erickson, the famous hypnosis pioneer, might be considered the 'Father of Client-directed Therapy'. In the 1980s, psychotherapy clinicians and students simple could not get enough information about Erickson's…

When I think about the question, “What is trauma?” it becomes very personal to me. A textbook definition of trauma just doesn't cut it for me. In my mid-twenties I…

So, if Energetic Trauma Healing Therapy is not about a medical model of treating trauma, what is it about?. In a nutshell it is about listening to clients and letting…

I tell this story to illustrate how easily I got hooked as a new, beginning therapist by the father's anger issues with his son when I had not healed my…

However, this was not the only mistake I made in my trauma treatment with this client. Later in her therapy, at her request, I agreed to meet with her husband…

The impetus for this Innovations in Healing Trauma handbook was born with my first Energetic Therapy client many years ago when the mistakes that I made, especially in her first…