Patients traumatized by a life-threatening physical illness require special psychotherapeutic help. The author has experienced time and again in the course of her many years of therapeutic support how important it is to find personal resources. Psychotherapy with TRUST is a treatment approach that combines elements from common psychotherapeutic procedures, such as EMDR, hypnotherapy, KIP, and painting therapy, that are especially suited for crisis intervention and gentle trauma processing. This also includes new procedures such as CIPBS (Conflict Imagination, Painting and Bilateral Stimulation), which has proven effective for years in the treatment of cancer patients, anxiety disorders, trauma sequelae, and depression and is presented here in detail. Psychotherapy with TRUST focuses on:.