Therapist Sidekick Resource
Understanding Fight, Flight, Freeze & Shutdown
A broad way to describe defensive responses without turning them into fixed categories
Psychoeducation for understanding fight, flight, freeze, and shutdown as broad, overlapping protective-response descriptions rather than fixed categories or diagnoses.
Resource preview — not the full resource
This page describes what’s available in Therapist Sidekick. The complete resource — including prompts, exercises, visuals, and client-ready material — is available inside the therapist workspace.
What this resource is designed to support
- understand protective responses
- normalize defensive reactions
- build language for activation
Resource details
Professional-use note: This public page describes the scope of a Therapist Sidekick resource; it is not the resource itself, a diagnosis, a treatment plan, or crisis guidance. Clinicians remain responsible for determining whether any resource is appropriate for a particular client.