Georgina K Smith, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist

11/05/2024

Dear therapist friends, associates, colleagues,
Please join me (& grab a few CEUs!) this Friday at Jamaica Bay Inn in Marina del Rey As Cirque Lodge and Revolve Recovery present a special CEU event where I will be discussing the pervasive effects of trauma, how to more comprehensively understand and differentiate it, and more nuanced approaches with clients in our responses and languaging as we focus on moving from trauma informed to trauma focused systems and professionals. This is a great learning opportunity for therapists who want to dig in deeper in the arena of complex trauma and PTSD, and great for care professionals and staff in a supporting role to gain more language, tools, and understanding when dealing with complex trauma cases.
Always a dynamic, fun, & story telling time! 🤗

Details and registration link below!

Enhance your clinical skills and deepen your understanding of trauma. Join us for a transformative learning experience. Gain the knowledge and tools to build stronger therapeutic relationships and facilitate healing for your clients.

Gain the tools to make a real difference in recovery outcomes.

📅 Date: 11/8/2024 | Time: 9 AM - 12 PM
📍 Location: Jamaica Bay Inn, Marina del Rey, CA
🎤Presented by: Dr. Georgina Smith of Revolve Recovery & Cirque Lodge
🎟️ RSVP: https://bit.ly/Trauma-Focused-Tools

02/17/2024

Honored to be presenting at Hazell Forums' Addiction and Trauma Conference in London this May. Proudly representing my IOP Revolve Recovery and excited to present on our passion and purpose - trauma treatment.
Here’s to inspiring change through education, connection, and thought-provoking conversations. Hope to see colleagues and friends there!

04/13/2022

…”To be alive is to be in a perpetual state of revolution. Whether I like it or not, pain is the fuel of revolution. Everything I need to become the [person] I’m meant to be next is inside my feelings of now. Life is alchemy, and emotions are the fire that turns me to gold. I will continue to become only if I resist extinguishing myself a million times a day. If I can sit in the fire of my own feelings, I will keep becoming.”
- Glennon Doyle, Untamed

03/25/2022

11/16/2020

Sharing this excellent article posted by The Trauma Project and written by Emma Cameron.
Important and relevant points when seeking trauma informed care. A beautiful way to frame the work we trauma therapists do in the more contemporary relational, somatic, non-pathologizing, parts work and meaning seeking context.

Trauma therapy has changed. Here is a clear description of key differences between modern trauma treatment for PTSD versus old style therapy.

03/31/2020

https://yourpilotlight.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-intersection-of-covid-19-and-legacy.html
.."However, when a global pandemic arrives on our doorstep, some of these individuals may have a re-lived experience of the circumstances in the outside world once again matching their internal alarm system, matching their history. Their alarm is intricately wired to tune in to exactly these catastrophic circumstances. So for some, they may experience a paradoxical sense of calm even if they also experience moments of triggering and panic and fear. A state of familiarity and knowing in the fear and uncertainty. An odd sense of comfort or aliveness and function in the chaos. Finding function in the need to do something to keep others safe. There may be a sense of control despite everything being completely out of control. They may temporarily reduce certain need seeking behaviors because of feeling a familiar attunement to the crisis, because of the matching of inside and outside that is happening. The past feels once again present. The quarantine and self-isolation may also feel at times calming in the sense of feeling like there is permission to retreat, to have a break from ‘performing’ for the world around them, for them to feel safe in the controlled alone-ness and to have a sense of knowing where everyone is, giving them the experience of less exposed risk..."

“In the midst of this catastrophe, more than looking in to find serenity we need to look out for one another to practice humanity”...

07/10/2019

https://humanwindow.com/dr-gabor-mate-interview-childhood-trauma-anxiety-culture/
“Trauma is when there is a loss of feeling and there is a reduced flexibility in responding to the world. This is a response to a wound./ Trauma is a psychic wound that hardens you psychologically that then interferes with your ability to grow and develop. It pains you and now you’re acting out of pain./Trauma is not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you. Trauma is that scarring that makes you less flexible, more rigid, less feeling and more defended.”

Dr Gabor Maté is a renowned expert in addiction, childhood trauma and mind-body health. In this interview, we spoke about a wide variety of topics, ranging from how he believes that most mental health conditions originate from unresolved childhood trauma, to why he describes current Western culture...

07/04/2019

“To a survivor, telling them to “think positive” sounds cruel. I mean, that’s exactly the problem for anyone recovering from psychological and emotional abuse. Their thoughts were hijacked by someone else, and now they are fighting for their sanity to get their own thoughts back.”

"Next time you feel compelled to encourage someone to 'let it go,' don't."