Why Mindset Work Doesn't Help Your Dysregulated Clients
If your clients have all the insights and strategies but remain stuck in the same patterns, this is likely the missing piece in your practice.
Recovering from chronic and traumatic stress has nothing to do with thinking about it differently.
It requires neuroplasticity to recalibrate the nervous system. Specifically, changes in prediction coding.
After traumatic stress, large amounts of survival energy are instinctively mobilised.
These physiological changes continue until your client discharges the activation in their nervous system. If the stress response doesn't complete, overprotective neuroception occurs—like a guard dog that constantly scans for threats and barks at everything.
Neuroception happens in the survival brain and communicates through your body's sensory systems, not through words or language. This is why mindset strategies don't change your client's built-in threat detection system.
There's a place for mindset work, but it's only effective after you've built the foundations of regulation from the body up. Without following the sensory system hierarchy, clients aren't creating lasting change in the nervous system.
They don't need more information. They need neuroplasticity.
Watch the video to see exactly how this plays out in your client sessions and what to do instead.
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