Billi Silverstein
Psychotherapy

Trauma Does Not Always Look Like Suffering. Sometimes It Looks Like Success.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall. Who Defines Our Worth at All?

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Dependence - A Clinical Look at Control, Codependency and Why the Child Position Persists

The difference is not simply that I work in depth, but in how that depth is held and explored.

Recovery from sugar addiction requires the same honesty and steadiness we bring to other forms of dependency.

Perhaps the task, then, is not to conquer grief but to learn to live alongside it. To recognise its presence not as pathology but as a reminder of attachment, meaning and love that persists beyond absence.

Hypervigilance is often misunderstood. It is not a universal consequence of trauma, nor is it simply anxiety or over-cautiousness. Rather, it is a finely tuned, embodied response that can develop when a child grows up in an environment where safety was unpredictable. From a psychotherapeutic perspective, hypervigilance reflects the nervous system’s remarkable adaptability. It learns to scan for danger in order to protect the self, even when the threat is no longer present.