They cannot tell us. But they do remember.
Tiny Signs, Big Needs
The child every doctor loves, because she’s so easy, so agreeable, so much fun in the waiting room. A toddler who panics in the dentist’s chair, long after the last painful procedure. An adult who feels inexplicably exhausted after a routine doctor’s visit, with no clear reason why. Experiences from before your child had language don’t disappear. They’re stored differently, as body sensations and behavioural patterns rather than a story that can be told. This webinar with Sasja Duijff and Laura Maats-Klein, a psychotherapist and trauma therapist who is also a mother to a daughter with 22q, looks at how early medical and relational experiences can resurface years later, in childhood, adolescence, or well into adulthood, and what actually helps.
In this session, Sasja and Laura cover why experiences before the age of four are remembered by the body even without language to describe them, the difference between big-T and small-t trauma and why both shape behaviour, and treatment approaches including EMDR, adapted for children using methods developed by Joan Lovett, and what to look for in a therapist. Sometimes the behaviour you’re seeing now, even the easy, compliant kind, is an old experience still asking to be understood.
A compassionate, informative session for parents and professionals supporting a child, teenager, or adult with 22q.
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