TRE for Health and Emergency Services Professionals
TRE is a self-care tool empowering personnel in the self-management of their performance and wellbeing without requiring them to talk to others or recall past events.
It is especially effective when service personnel are most fatigued as it is easy to do and requires almost no mental or physical effort and can even be used lying in bed to improve sleep quality and assist with getting to sleep.
TRE can be practiced in as little as 5-10 minutes and is easily integrated into existing exercise and recovery routines providing a practical tool to switch off hypervigilance and assist with the transition from work to home life.
TRE is a calming technique that empowers personnel to release muscular tension, reduce stress and anxiety and switch off hypervigilance on their own whenever and wherever they need to.
By rebalancing the nervous system below the level of conscious control, TRE provides a body-based alternative to mindfulness and talk-therapies to help prevent stress, vicarious trauma, PTSD and burnout, as well as providing a complimentary technique to support and enhance the effects of other treatments and practices including general exercise.
TRE can be used as an early intervention strategy to ‘debrief the body’ after critical incidents, or on an ongoing and regular basis to reduce anxiety and build resilience and coping capacity in the nervous system over time.
Evaluations of TRE by front-line health professionals in Australia consistently report immediate calming effects and unanimously recommend TRE for other staff in their organisations.
Click here for an evaluation of TRE by NSW Health Staff
Peer-reviewed research has shown TRE helps to reduce domestic violence and mental health conditions, as well as improving quality of life and the capacity to deal with adversity.
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