Robert Parker

About

I believe the most useful thing I offer is a clear account of what is happening and why, delivered early rather than withheld until someone has earned it. People do a lot better when they understand the mechanism they are dealing with. So I explain things properly. PTSD has a well-described mechanism, and knowing how it operates converts a set of frightening and apparently random experiences into something predictable that can be worked on. That conversion alone lowers the alarm substantially, often before any treatment has formally begun. Understanding is not the cure and it makes the cure comprehensible. School and university counseling is where I began, and explaining mechanisms clearly to skeptical people was most of that job. It remains most of this one. If nobody has explained what is happening to you, get in touch. Predictable is a lot less frightening than random.