The following list contains trauma treatments, interventions, and trauma aware approaches to care as identified by Alameda County providers and staff as effective and ones that they commonly use.
- Active listening
- Allowing individuals to choose what, when, or if they will disclose trauma
- Anxiety reducing and self-soothing relaxation strategies
- Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC)
- Art therapy
- Attachment-promoting interventions
- Avoid restraint and seclusion
- Be aware of what may cause re-traumatization
- Breaking down problems into smaller bites
- Breath work
- Case management
- Child parent psychotherapy
- Cognitive behavioral interventions for trauma in schools
- Collaborative assessment
- Connecting individual with support group
- Containing emotions
- Creating and processing trauma narratives
- Creating safety plans
- Crisis intervention
- Cultural rituals
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Desensitization
- Duncan’s outcome rating and session scale
- Education about neurological impact
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Emotional intelligence, emotional rapport practices
- Empathic listening
- Empathic witnessing
- Empathy
- Ensuring office is safe and welcoming
- Exploring possibilities of hope and change
- Feminist trauma informed practices
- Filial therapy
- Focus on building trust
- Gather a person’s history
- Greif Processing
- Grounding techniques (for dissociation/anxiety, etc.)
- Guided imagery
- Harm reduction focus
- Help clients find coping strategies that prevent them from hypo-hyper arousal
- Holding/Teaching boundaries with clients
- Incorporate spirituality
- Incredible years
- Individual, group, and family therapy using different mediums such as painting, drawing, collage, knitting, yoga, movement
- Medical care and health education
- Meditation
- Meeting people where they are at
- Mindfulness practices
- Motivational interviewing
- Offer to help in solving problems and collaborate together
- Parents changing reactions to children’s behavior based on understanding basis of trauma
- Play therapy
- Practices that are linguistically and culturally informed
- Practicing self care as provider and staff
- Present focused techniques and practices
- Psychoeducation about trauma
- Psychotropic medication
- Recognizing triggers
- Referrals to additional behavioral health and other support
- Relational therapy (for Trauma)
- Resilience practices to help those manage during ongoing trauma or traumatic reactions
- Seeking Safety
- SITCAP model (Structured Sensory Interventions for Traumatized Children, Adolescents, and Parents)
- Somatic practices
- Speak gently
- Strength-based conversation
- Supportive counseling
- Talk therapy
- Teaching self-regulation techniques
- Trauma assessment as part of intake
- Validating individuals’ experience
- Wellness and recovery oriented approaches
- Writing activities
- Yoga