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Therapy Goals for Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma

Relationships

To learn how to act appropriately in life situations
To experience belonging
To learn what “people pleasing” is and to develop alternative helpful behaviors
To learn to trust and have intimate relationships
To stop rejecting behaviors
To experience a safe environment
To have someone “call me” on my self-debating behaviors
To learn to trust, love, give and receive in a balanced, healthy way
To find out what is reasonable in relationships and in myself
To learn to stop controlling others
To know that I am not alone
To have an ability to build relationships

Emotions

To identify, experience, and accept feelings
To learn to feel emotions
To express feelings other than anger
To be able to tell people how I feel about things
To stop using humor to avoid feelings

Self-Acceptance

To learn how to have fun
To learn to be less judgmental of myself and others
To let my walls down
To understand the relationship between past experience and present attitudes
To learn and experience forgiveness
To become less over reactive
To develop self-esteem
To stop thinking 10 times before I speak
To stop intellectualizing