SRT is grounded in trauma-informed care, ensuring that clients are treated with an understanding of how trauma affects the brain, emotions, and body. It provides a safe space for clients to work through their trauma without re-traumatization.

One of the main goals of SRT is to help clients reconcile with themselves, often by fostering self-compassion. This involves accepting one’s emotions, behaviors, and trauma responses without judgment and understanding the roots of these feelings and reactions.

In SRT, clients are guided through exercises and interventions that allow them to “rescript” their relationship with their trauma. This might involve revisiting past experiences in a controlled environment, often in collaboration with a clinician, to change the emotional narrative around the trauma and create new, more empowering associations.

A major focus of SRT is helping individuals integrate their traumatic experiences into a cohesive sense of self. This means that instead of the trauma causing fragmentation or disconnection, it becomes something that is acknowledged and understood as part of the individual’s story, leading to healing and wholeness.

SRT helps clients develop self-regulation skills, teaching them how to manage emotional distress, anxiety, or dysregulation that stems from trauma. These techniques help clients regain control over their responses to triggers and overwhelming emotions.