About

The Full Story

This is a uniquely personal page for me as a practitioner, as a supervisor and as a person.  

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In late 2022, I discovered the Emotion Code, and it radically altered my approach to therapy, and it also produced giant changes in my own personal and professional development.  

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Disclaimer: Even though The Emotion Code is a part of the reading list for your internship, I am not here to influence you in any way as to whether or not you decide to also become certified in this unique practice.  This is here for educational purposes only, and it is intended to offer you yet another tool that you can use to familiarize yourself with the types of emotional and traumatic experiences that we have as humans.  

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When you familiarize yourself with these emotions and their definitions, something starts to happen.  That change can be felt in your intuitive understanding of where your clients are coming from.  A great example of this is in understanding the differences between anxiety, worry, panic and nervousness.  Since many of your clients will come to you with "anxiety", it is important for us as practitioners to know on a definitional level that there are significant differences between these four emotions, and understanding these differences is what this page is all about.  

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There are two charts here.  The first is The Emotion Code along with all the definitions.

The second is what we are calling The Trauma Chart.  This one was actually the creation of my brother when he took a list of traumas that another researcher put together and put it into a usable chart.  This allowed people familiar with The Emotion Code to use the chart in a similar way to get to the important points of identifying and releasing the trauma.  

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I hope these help you as reference tools as you continue to familiarize yourself with the vocabulary that we will be using as therapists.  

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I would highly recommend that you print these out and put them in your Clinical Binder as reference tools.  

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