PTSD Resolution

PTSD Resolution is a UK charity (No. 1202649) that offers counselling with a 78% success rate to UK armed forces’ Veterans, Reserves and dependants, to relieve mental health problems resulting from military service, to ease reintegration into a normal work & family life. The PTSD Resolution national outreach programme has over 200 counsellors. It is private, confidential, local, and one-to-one. No referral is needed, thus reducing any sense of stigma. Counselling is brief and effective – an average of five one-hour sessions. PTSD Resolution offers employers Trauma Awareness Training to support the successful integration of Veterans and Reservists in the workplace. The half-day modular courses enable line managers and HR staff to recognise potential symptoms of trauma and identify a clear route to resolving any workplace difficulties Resolution counsellors are trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TFCBT) Treatment is consistent with the guidelines of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). The charity’s role is to provide a contact point for those requiring counselling and to arrange immediate, brief, local effective counselling , and to record the results. Veterans & Reserves are not required to talk about the traumatic events. The programme policy is that re-exposure is better done in the client’s visual imagination and while in a relaxed state, protecting confidentiality and reducing distress. This is a relatively new development of TFCBT, similar to Imagery Re-scripting and Reprocessing Therapy (IRRT). Counselling is complementary to the work of other armed forces charities, because it can resolve the immediate mental health issues that may be barriers to successful help under reintegration and resettlement programmes.