Red Cross China experiences TRE
Over the past year, I visited the earthquake zone of Sichuan Province in China to teach TRE. The Chinese government entrusted the counseling services of Psychcn (Psychology China) to choose the most useful and effective methods of trauma recovery for such a large population. Dr. Helena Guo of Psychcn choose TRE as one of four methods to be used in the trauma recovery process. Psychcn invited me to Sichuan Province twice to train their staff on how to provide TRE training to the local population. I had the profound opportunity of guiding many teachers of the local school systems affected by the earthquake through TRE. We did this for the purpose of helping the teacher themselves recover from their own traumatic experiences. Then we trained them to be able to teach their students how to do the exercises to relieve their trauma symptoms as well. As a result of these visits, Red Cross Society of the People’s Republic of China heard about TRE and decided that they wanted to be guided through the exercises. Dr. Helena Guo and her counseling staff guided them through the exercises. Red Cross Newsletter to see photos and read about their experience with TRE which was written up in their September Newsletter.