Nurture. Challenge. Intergrate.
The Trauma and Well-Being Centre (TT&WBC) is an in-person and online therapeutic service based in Canberra.
This name was chosen for our business to share one of the key principles we believe, namely that in your traumas (and trauma responses) are the seeds for your wellbeing.
The key is to find the right kind of professionals with whom to work.
The founders and Centre Directors, Dr Amar Dhall and Sandy Farac met during their psychotherapy and counselling training in 2016.
They have worked together since then with the aim of offering people from all walks of life a place to connect with themselves in new ways in order to live empowered and meaning-filled lives with better quality relationships than they thought possible.
They have worked with people from over 10 countries including indigenous Australians and people of all orientations.
Three principles that underpin TT&WBC are:
1. Nurture:
We take the time to build real relationships with our clients because before any healing can happen you need to feel connected with whomever you open yourself up to work with.
2. Challenge:
In the warmth and safety of a real relationship, powerful questions along with honest and authentic conversations and inner work contain the keys to healing and personal transformation. An appropriate level of challenge allows you to see yourself from a fresh perspective.
3. Integrate:
Nothing changes until something changes. Both healing and growth require you to incorporate your new insights into your life in order for your circumstances to change. Both Sandy and Amar are highly-skilled and experienced in helping you to find the pathways for integration that work for you.
Our Logo
To encapsulate the essence of the journey from trauma to well-being our logo is a fusion between the Zen circle (Ensō) and Uroborous (the serpent that eats its own tail).
We use the colour black to symbolise the impacts of trauma on your psyche and mix this with gold to symbolise its alchemical transmutation into well-being.
A line can be used to represent two ends of a polarity or continuum.
At one end of the line is one pole and at the other end is its opposite.
Examples are light and dark, cold and hot and good and evil.
On one level it makes sense that “trauma” could be placed at one end of a polarity and “well-being” at the other.
This polarity works because trauma responses lock people into habitualised responses to particular memories, experiences, circumstances and stresses that bring about some form of chaos or rigidity.
At the other end of this polarity is “well-being”.
Embodying well-being means that you are not stuck in either chaos or rigidity, nor are you stuck living in the past or the future, nor are you too active and busy (in either body or mind) nor incapacitated and stuck.
“Well-being” is a pragmatic eudaimonia as you are able to fluidly move between past, present and future, live an engaged, meaningful life with healthy boundaries (e.g. interdependent relationships) and, embody “post traumatic growth”.
Automatic trauma survival behaviours smother your ability to embody well-being.
By learning the skills required to metabolise your traumatic experiences you gradually uncover the deepest parts of yourself.
As you make this journey, you will find that where once there were automatic trauma responses now live conscious choices and actions.
In this way the polarity with trauma at one end and well-being at the other bends around to create a circle – changing from a line (which is also the symbol for the number one) into a circle (the symbol for zero), which is the place for your rebirth.
Carl Jung coined the term “enantiodromia” to describe this very phenomenon.
Enantiodromia is a term that describes the way that going deeply into one end of a polarity can lead to it turning into its opposite.
In your case it is only by going deeply into your traumas that they turn into their opposite, well-being.
Another example of enantiodromia is the experience that some people encounter as they begin to explore tolerance.
People become more and more tolerant of others until they themselves become unable to tolerate intolerant people – their exploration of tolerance has led them into intolerance.
When people become aware of their enantiodromia, they then reshape the way they view themselves and whatever the polarity was that led them to go on their journey of development.
This is a non-linear leap in understanding – it is a rebirth.
Make an appointment with us today.
“Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
— Viktor Frankl, an Austrian neurologist, psychologist and Holocaust survivor