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HALCYON: Means to calm or be PEACEFUL or PROSPEROUS
HOW
TO APPLY SKILLS TO PROTECT FROM DAILY
STRESS or POSSIBLE
BURNOUT
JACQUELINE HUNT, R.N., Psy.D.
E-Mail: Jackievalhill@yahoo.com
If you have been experiencing difficulties on
the job, at home or with interpersonal relationships because of past or recent
trauma and feel overwhelmed, helpless, trapped, or discouraged, with no
satisfaction from work or life itself--you can get help. You can find your balance, learn some new coping
strategies, and get empathic and caring help.
HALCYON4ME.COM:
E-Mail: Jackievalhill@yahoo.com
(818)
750-3720
292 La Cienega Blvd. Suite #103
Beverly
Hills, CA 90211
Feelings of helplessness and self-medication are not helping you,
consider other measures:
Recovery is possible, when YOU get help from trained specialists who
treat a myriad of problems from premarital counseling, divorce or separation or
major disorders.
Trauma can affect anyone with symptoms of feeling stressed out, lacking
interest, or insomnia, anxiety, excessive mood swings, marital discord,
physical ailments, BURN-OUT, anger--even Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD). Judith L. Herman posits that,
the “normal response” hypothesis suggests that PTSD is a failure to recover
from mental traumatization. Recovery is
possible, when the person gets help so their “normal” recovery process may
occur.
Empathic
Therapy: Jackievalhill@yahoo.com
PTSD symptoms involve experiences of fear; repetitive and intrusive
inappropriate thoughts or actions. If
the presenting symptoms are related to reexperiencing highly traumatic events,
which persist for at least four weeks, a diagnosis can be made:
(1) The reexperiences may consist of distressing
recollections, dreams, sense of reliving, or psychological or physiological
reactions when exposed to cues that may represent the event.
(2) The person persistently avoids stimuli associated with the trauma
and has a numbing of general responsiveness.
(3) The person constantly experiences increased
arousal such as sleep changes, exaggerated startle response, or hypervigilance.
(4) The symptoms in all the above persist for at least one month, and
the disturbance cause clinically significant impairment in social or occupational
functioning.
q How Can a
Psychotherapist help YOU?
· By listening.
· Providing a place to safely grieve your losses.
· Teaching Assertiveness and Communication Skills.
· Providing an environment to express YOUR ANGER.
· Provide Coping Skills.
· Provide Therapy on a Sliding Scale if You are not
eligible for funds by the Victim Assistance Program
q Therapists do not take sides--they help work out
solutions to problems framed by YOUR values and beliefs.
q Anyone may be eligible for funds to pay for
individual/group therapy from the Victim Assistance Program, if you were
physically injured and/or emotionally traumatized--due to the THREAT of
physical injury.
q A primary victim is one who is identified as a person
listed on the police report: as a witness of violence, a victim of domestic
violence, or childhood sexual abuse, and/or rape.
q Obtaining and making a call can assist you with your
present difficulties in life.
Halcyon4me.com:
Jackievalhill@yahoo.com
Dr. van der Kolk posits that extreme stress produces
a myriad of long-term consequences, such as depression, phobias, hyperarousal,
and social avoidance. PTSD is a
“biopsychosocial” problem since several pathogenic processes, including (1) a
permanent alteration of neurobiological processes, resulting in excessive
stimulus discrimination and hyperarousal; (2) conditioned fear responses to
trauma-related stimuli; and (3) altered cognitive schemata and social
apprehension, stemming from traumatic experience(s) and the person’s subjective
perception.
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
fourth edition and the Primary Care Version in collaboration with
representatives of “American Academy of Family Physicians,” “American Academy
of Pediatrics,” and the “American Medical Association:”
“The traumatic event is defined
as one that involves actual or threatened death or injury, or a threat to one’s
physical integrity (e.g., rape or assault, military combat, destruction of
one’s community, bombing, torture, airplane crashes).”
Exposure to the event can be direct (e.g., having one’s life threatened)
or indirectly, such as witnessing a plane crash, hearing the news that one’s
spouse was killed in an automobile accident!
According to the “California Victims of Crime Program,” compensation for
anyone under California Law (government Code Sections 13959-13969.3) allows
victims of crime to qualify and receive therapy or Mental Health Counseling for
direct or indirect experience of trauma that resulted from a crime.
E-Mail: Jackievalhill@yahoo.com
(818)
750-3720
292 La Cienega Blvd. Suite #103
Beverly
Hills, CA 90211
This Program applies to anyone who as a “victim” was injured, or as a
“derivative victim” that was not directly injured, but at the time of the crime
was a resident of California, as well as a parent, sibling, spouse, or child of
the victim. They may have been living
with the victim at the time of the crime; or had lived with the victim for at
least two years in a relationship similar to a parent, sibling, spouse, or
child of the victim.
Anyone who applies for this service must file within one year of the
date of the crime, and applications resulting from crimes against a minor must
be filed before the minor’s 19th birthday.
The person would need a copy of the police report, and our Registered
Marriage Family Therapist Intern or licensed MFT will charge on a sliding scale
or apply for fees under the Victims of Crime reimbursement plan.
The Victims of Crime Program posits that, if you have any other sources
of reimbursement available for therapy you must use these other resources
before becoming eligible for payments from the Program.
If a woman
has suffered from domestic violence the District Attorney’s Victims of Crime
Program will compensate a therapist for the victim’s therapy, if she is
suffering from any traumatogenic experience such as physical and sexual
assault, which has resulted in alcohol and/ or drug abuse, Posttraumatic Stress
disorder (PTSD),
and other mental health disorders.
When the stress of trauma becomes unmanageable, therapy can help
overcome the effects and provide easy coping skills.
Anyone may be eligible to qualify for individual/group therapy from the
Victim Assistance Program:
E-Mail: Jackievalhill@yahoo.com
(818)
750-3720
292 La Cienega Blvd. Suite #103
Beverly
Hills, CA 90211
Trauma can affect anyone, with symptoms of feeling stressed out, lacking
interest, or insomnia, anxiety, excessive mood swings, marital discord,
physical ailments, and anger are just a part of the symptoms from PTSD.
As an Intern I am bound to participate in a professional association
such as the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT). I
treat patients only within the scope of my competence. I refer clients to other qualified
practitioners when appropriate or necessary.
I am a relationship specialist who may treat anyone with interpersonal
problems and I am trained to assess, diagnose and treat: individuals, couples,
families and groups to help with solutions only fitted to the clients own
VALUES AND LIFESTYLES.
Complete confidentiality is maintained by my office, which is outlined in
the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) and the
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Fees are on a sliding scale, and appointments can be made within
24 hours.
Call JACKIE
(818) 750-3720
E-Mail: Jackievalhill@yahoo.com
JACQUELINE HUNT, R.N., Psy.D.