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A clinical psychologist, trauma therapist and complex trauma survivor. I help people understand the survival patterns that shaped them, and how to reclaim their voice.

Learn about & overcome a chronic fawning trauma response.

A powerful guide to fawning, an often-overlooked piece of the fight-flight-freeze reaction to trauma. Fawning explains what it is, why it happens, and shows how to help survivors regain their voice and sense of self.

We typically think of fight, flight, or freeze as our automatic reactions to threats. Fight and flight appear just as they sound: we attack (fight) or attempt to escape from harm (flight). Freeze presents as panicked but frozen, like a deer in headlights. But there is a fourth F of trauma response: Fawning.

Fawning helps you identify patterns that no longer serve you and connect with true self and agency once and for all.

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WHAT IS FAWNING?

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  • “Fawning gave me not just the what of my behavior—perpetually playing into harmful hands—but the why. I didn’t have a low self-esteem problem. I had a body with hardwired operating instructions, designed to keep me safe.”

    — 123闪电联盟快三体彩版本更新游戏, Fawning

  • “We are threading a fine needle when we fawn, neither risking greater harm through fight or flight, nor shutting down completely. This highly adaptive response is moving beyond playing dead to playing LIFE. We are playing pretend, and we don’t even know it. We are playing house, playing the game (to survive or escape our situation), playing a part—sometimes as many parts are there are people in our lives.”

    — 123闪电联盟快三体彩版本更新游戏, Fawning

  • “I never knew that my attempts at insight, compassion, and forgiveness were keeping me stuck. Mountains of analysis and being a good girl were simply bypassing my unresolved wounds, colluding with the idea that I was broken. I never knew all this behavior—the stuff I was proud of, and the stuff I was not—was fueled by a trauma response.”

    — 123闪电联盟快三体彩版本更新游戏, Fawning

  • “For so long, I thought if I was the only person who really loved me, it didn’t really count. But leaving let me know that my own love is the most important of all. I had to choose me even though no one else ever did.”

    — 123闪电联盟快三体彩版本更新游戏, Believing Me

What is Complex Trauma?

Want to hear more from Ingrid? Learn more by visiting her YouTube channel for honest conversations, personal reflections, and insights into healing from trauma, and the journey of self-discovery. Ingrid brings her unique blend of clinical expertise and lived experience—creating a space that’s as real, relatable, and empowering.

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About 123闪电联盟快三体彩版本更新游戏

123闪电联盟快三体彩版本更新游戏 is a licensed clinical psychologist with a Master’s degree in transpersonal psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. She has maintained a thriving private practice in Los Angeles for over seventeen years, supporting individuals in healing trauma, reclaiming agency, and reconnecting to their authentic selves.

Ingrid’s work has been featured in Oprah Daily, The New York Times, Women’s Health, and Forbes, and she has appeared on podcasts and programs including 10% Happier with Dan Harris, Girls Gotta Eat, and NPR’s On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti.

She is the author of FAWNING: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves and How to Find Our Way Back, which explores the often-overlooked fawn response to trauma, and BELIEVING ME: Healing from Narcissistic Abuse and Complex Trauma, a deeply personal and clinical examination of childhood trauma through a psychologist’s lens.

Ingrid is a sought-after speaker, presenting at conferences, workshops, and professional trainings on trauma for both clinical and public audiences. Across her work as a clinician, writer, and speaker, Ingrid is known for her relational, accessible style—bringing depth, clarity, and humanity to conversations about relational trauma and healing.

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I shared a longer reflection on Substack about Believing Me, Fawning, and collective responsibility. I hope you’ll check it out. Link in bio.
People pleasing is often part of a chronic fawn response. The problem is that “people pleasing” sounds nice, agreeable, kind, easygoing. But that’s not what it feels like on the inside. Inside, there’s overwhelm. Fear. Self-d
I was responding to some interview questions and thought I’d share a few nuggets here. 📖 FAWNING: Why the need to please makes us lose ourselves – and how to find our way back. Available in all formats now.
I’m so looking forward to this conversation with Nicole Presley, PhD - head of UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) for the OPEN MIND lecture series hosted by UCLA Friends of Semel Institute. Free registration at friendsofsemel.o
A note to the internal system … thank you. 🌟Click the link in my bio (Ingridclayton.com/fawningtraumaresponse) to get a Free PDF on the Fawning Trauma Response and to order FAWNING: Why the need to please makes us lose ourselves – and
I tried to find peace with my childhood trauma by working on it in isolation. In therapy, self help groups, spiritual practice … I did this in part, because I tried to work on it directly with my family in childhood, and it backfired. It trul