Cognitiemagneten: Een Hulpmiddel voor Traumatherapie

I wasn't sure my teen clients would engage with something so low-tech, but physically sorting the magnets into piles of "what I felt then" versus "what's true now" got them talking faster than any worksheet. Quantifying a distortion on a scale before and after moving it really shows them how much we

The magnets give my clients a concrete way to name and rank the distortions that crept in after their trauma, which is far more useful than just talking in circles. I used them in a group session and people who usually stay quiet actually engaged with picking out their cognitions.

I’ve used these with several clients who struggle to articulate their thoughts after trauma, and the way they can physically sort and rank each cognition has opened up conversations we couldn’t reach before. Being able to quantify how strongly a distortion holds makes the processing feel more concre