He teaches psychiatry at the Boston University Medical School and continues to work as a clinician in his Boston-area private practice. Until 2018, he worked at The Trauma Center, a nonprofit organization he founded in Massachusetts.

What are 2 strategies that van der Kolk 2014 recommends for helping children who have experienced trauma to regulate their emotions?

Van der Kolk takes particular issue with two of the most widely employed techniques in treating trauma: cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure therapy. Exposure therapy involves confronting patients over and over with what most haunts them, until they become desensitized to it.

Does Bessel van der Kolk still see patients?

Dr. van der Kolk is not accepting new patients at this time, but please feel free to submit the form below to be placed on a waitlist for a one-time consult.