A vital component of resolving psychiatric symptoms is through developing a supportive and compassionate therapeutic relationship that focuses on helping a patient face and experience uncomfortable and painful feelings related to their trauma. In this presentation, we’ll use the movie, Railway Man and audio-visual segments of psychotherapy sessions, to demonstrate how we apply findings from psychotherapy research in the treatment of trauma. Participants will learn what steps they can take to strengthen the therapeutic bond when using ‘exposure and desensitization’ to help their patients reclaim their capacity to connect with loving feelings with themselves and others.