Trauma-related interventions and support service - CRPG

CRPG (Portugal) offers its services to clients who suffer from long-term health conditions, chronic diseases, mental health disorders and autoimmune disorders. In this diversity, many clients also have trauma experiences, and this is why CRPG as an organisation doesn’t provide trauma-specific services but takes trauma into account in every part of its work in an holistic approach. The aim is to support service users to manage their clinical condition while also learning how to achieve better self-regulation at cognitive and emotional level. 

Interventions combine EMDR, mindfulness, somatic self-regulation and biofeedback interventions to improve people’s capacity to self-regulate and maintain their connection to themselves and the environment. 

Furthermore, some years ago the organisation noticed that many psychologists working in the team were not trauma-informed: they knew the therapies but had no experience in observing the clients in their window of tolerance. In order to improve their preparedness, now everyone in the team has to carry out a baseline training on trauma, including interventions such as EMDR and brain spotting. The organisation has developed a digital portfolio with resources on trauma and trauma interventions.