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From Trigger to Withdrawal: How Cue Stacks Shape Client Exposure, Shame States, and Trauma Reintegration in Clinical Practice
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April 16, 2026

From Trigger to Withdrawal: How Cue Stacks Shape Client Exposure, Shame States, and Trauma Reintegration in Clinical Practice

This episode explores how witnessing, paced exposure, and relational contact help clients re-engage unresolved biophysiological trauma data without collapsing into overwhelm or defensive compression. For clinicians, it offers a trauma-informed lens on how cue-linked activation, shame, and protection can be sequenced more adaptively through titration, reintegration, and therapeutic presence.
Guest: Steve Sapourn
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