When the Past Feels Present: Interactive Session(PTSD))
Beyond the Surface™ Clinical Tools by EWOL
When the Past Feels Present: Interactive Session Edition (Version 2.0)
A trauma-informed PTSD guide you can use live in session, then send home with your client.
When the past feels present, clients often struggle to find words for what is happening, and clinicians need something steadier than a stack of handouts. This tool gives you a calm, structured way to explain PTSD, work through it together in the room, and give clients practical pages to take with them.
What you get
- The interactive session tool (opens in your browser)
- The Therapist Companion
- The Therapist Manual (PDF)
Use it in session
- A Session Room built from 12 session outlines, with six steps to move through together and a gentle session clock
- A “how present does the client feel?” slider as a conversation aid, not a score
- Four visual tools you can share on screen or print: window of tolerance, four areas of PTSD, then and now bridge, and the reminder and response chain
- A guided workbook with 14 activities
- Nonidentifying session notes
Give it to the client
- Ten one-page handouts you can personalize, print or save as PDF, and mark as given
- A brief support card for hard moments
- Between-session practice pages with a simple week tracker
Layered on every page
Each page moves from what it is, to how to do it, to healing and deeper work with a therapist. Client pages use plain, sixth-grade wording.
Built for real practice
- Works offline once saved, with nothing to install
- Print, save as PDF, and reset buttons throughout
- Designed to avoid identifying details: clients are prompted to use brief, nonidentifying responses. It is not an EHR or a confidential messaging system.
- Checked in Chrome, Edge and Safari. Designed to work in Firefox as well.
Who it is for
Licensed mental health clinicians working with adults. It is a teaching and conversation tool, not a diagnostic instrument or a substitute for clinical training, assessment or treatment planning. Children and adolescents need developmental adaptation and separate review.
Please note
If a client is in crisis or in immediate danger, call or text 988 or use local emergency services.
License covers one licensed clinician” under
Questions or support
© Shanita Wade, MA, LPC · Empowered Way of Life Therapy, LLC
