Jill Woodworth

In this fascinating and inspiring episode, Caroline Ramirez, TSC Mom & Licensed Professional Counselor discusses the impact of different types of trauma, shock trauma & developmental trauma, and how this is relevant to TSC. She discusses how we as parents can work with our children, to mitigate traumatic experiences which are often a part of TSC management and care and shares examples from her personal experience and successes with her daughter who had brain surgery at 15 months of age and had postoperative partial paralysis. She concludes by offering multiple practical suggestions & techniques for applying these practices in our own situations. As a body-oriented psychotherapist, she looks at how visceral reactions relate to mental health, as well as emotions and thoughts. Both of her primary ways of working were influenced by the research of Stephen Porges, who wrote the Polyvagal Theory.