When the client’s internal resources are strengthened, you can begin to little by little “touch” the trauma and talk about it. First, you need to identify those moderately painful fragments of memories that the client is ready to interact with. At the same time, you need to ensure that during the process of working through the client remains in the “window of tolerance to affect.” Diving too quickly and for too long into painful memories can only lead to re-traumatization. The role of the psychologist is gradually changing. If at the stabilization stage he was a “caring host parent,” now he turns into a “benevolent coach” who little by little pushes the client to change. Reduced sensitivity to triggers. The client re-lives the traumatic events in a calm environment, with the support of a psychologist. You can ask the client to write down a story about their trauma and then read it out loud. To enhance the effect and stimulate the information processing system of the brain, you can use eye movements from the EMDR method. The “two chairs” technique from Gestalt psychology can also be used. The client re-enacts the traumatic situation, acting in different roles (changing to different chairs). At the same time, it is worth paying attention to the feelings accompanying the memory (fear, shame, anger), which clients often avoid. Acknowledging and expressing them is an important part of the healing process. As a result, the emotional charge of painful memories is reduced. They become mere memories and cease to evoke an affective response. The next step is to gently encourage the client to do things in real life that, due to association with trauma, cause fear and avoidance. Starting with relatively tolerable situations and gradually moving to more difficult ones. Working with negative beliefs. As a result of complex trauma, a whole series of irrational beliefs arise that reduce self-esteem and self-confidence: “I am helpless,” “I am abnormal,” “I am doomed to suffer.” The psychologist helps the client become aware of these beliefs, question them, and replace them with more rational alternatives. Gradually, the meaning that the client attaches to traumatic events changes. A distance appears between “I as a person” and “what happened to me.” The realization comes: “What happened is in the past. My future life depends on myself.” Search for new meanings. Trauma challenges a person’s philosophical and religious beliefs and his picture of the world. From the obvious question “Why did this happen to me?” deep existential reflections about death, free will, the meaning of life and one’s place in the world follow. The psychologist carefully supports the client in spiritual quests, without imposing his opinion. If it is possible to find meaning in what happened (for example, with the help of the doctrine of karma), then the rehabilitation process goes much faster. An important role in this process is played by identifying values ​​(deep true desires) and establishing contact with them. What kind of person do I want to be? What kind of life do I want to live? The answers to these questions allow you to form a vision of a new interesting life, set goals and begin to make active efforts to achieve them..