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Karen Carnabucci, MSS, LCSW, TEP
Lake House Health & Learning Center
Racine, Wisconsin
About myself
■ Karen Carnabucci, MSS, LCSW, TEP
■ Licensed clinical social worker
■ Psychodramatist
■ Psychotherapist, trainer and
consultant in trauma, addiction and
other therapeutic issues.
What is trauma?
Experiences outside of the range of
human experience that have a life-
changing impact on the person.
Healing is possible.
More…
The person experienced, witnessed
or was confronted with an event or
events that involved actual or
threatened death or serious injury
or a threat to the integrity of self or
others.
Response involved intense fear,
helplessness or horror.
Examples of
trauma
■ Car accident or other severe accident
■ Alcoholism or mental illness in family
■ Physical abuse and/or sexual abuse
■ Observing abuse, violence and severe injury
■ Kidnapping
■ Crime
■ Torture, war, terrorism
■ Immigration
■ Natural catastrophe (earthquake, fire, tornado, etc.)
■ Significant loss
■ And more…
L R
eft ight
Imagination
Logic Emotions
Words Creativity
Thinking Music
Planning Sound
Understanding Movement
Processing of information Sensations
Consequences Experience
Consciousness Art
Meaning-making Receptivity
Body
Images
Smells
Sounds
Urges
How trauma
lives in us
■ Regular and intrusive recollections
of the event, including images,
thoughts or perceptions.
Difficulty communicating
To heal…
■ Know realities of trauma.
■ Help right brain and left brain
integrate.
■ Know and use the value of the
creative arts for self expression.
Positive visual images can replace
painful ones.
■ Help student integrate his or her
strengths.
Strengths
■ Personal
(courage, intelligence, etc.)
■ Relational
(262) 633-2645
www.lakehousecenter.com
karenc@wi.rr.com