A hallmark of trauma that we probably all recognize and that we hear a lot about in the social media and public domain is that trauma hijacks the nervous system. Indeed it does. And that leaves people feeling like they're spinning out of control. In eFit, we help our clients make sense of that, we contextualize that and we move beyond that. We expect and anticipate that we will not only help our clients make sense of their experience, diminish some of the symptoms that are haunting them, the echoes of the trauma that are gripping them day to day, but we're going to shift the underlying structure of attachment that is at the core of these experiences.
We're going to shift people out of distress back into a felt sense of security potentially in the case of complex or developmental trauma for the first time. Allowing them to feel competent and confident and to be able to manage stress even trauma and regain their balance again. Standing on a platform of more solid ground of a felt sense of security. It is especially the case in the context of complex or developmental trauma when small children's needs have been disavowed or dismissed, negated, that children learn that they can't trust their internal experience and they find ways to remove themselves from it by reactively intensifying emotion, shutting it down or some combination of both.
It's very likely that these kinds of responses are going to become automatic and reflexive And it's very likely that these young people are not going to trust their internal experience and not want to get close to it and feel like they are living in a space where they feel out of control. All of these kinds of emotional consequences of trauma can be absolutely terrifying and feel very much like chaos. Sometimes our clients will say they feel in free fall and most certainly in this emotion focused therapy, when we begin to invite our clients into spaces where they might touch some of what has been untouchable, that they're going to be fearful. And once again, in EFT, in EFit, we anticipate that kind of fear and that kind of unfamiliarity and we have all kinds of tools and interventions that can offer a sense of safety to our clients and that can quell some of their anxieties and fears about beginning to move into some of the deeper experience that they potentially have had no access to for years.