Since Jigsaw Counselling & Consultancy Service© was established in
2003 we have worked with many hundreds of clients who have suffered
the effects of trauma as a direct result of a traumatic experience,
such as rape, sexual & domestic violence, kidnap, road traffic
accidents, work accidents, personal assault/injury, staff of shop
raids, armed robbery and families of suicide and murder.
In the early days it became apparent that just counselling was not
always effective and in some cases only further embedded the distress
for the client. This led to seeking new ways of working with trauma,
one of which was critical incident debriefing – this is only one of
several interventions that can be used with trauma – after attending a
few different courses it became apparent that there are varied models
of critical incident de-briefing used by organisations to suit their
way of working, just as we at Jigsaw use our own adapted version of
those models..
It is not and never
will be a way to end all trauma, however, it is an effective and
highly successful tool, in the years that I have been using it, I have
never worked with a client whose life has not been changed in a
positive way after being debriefed.
