Therapy for Trauma
When it comes to therapy for trauma, it is important to uncover
and treat the root cause of your suffering and dis-ease to
heal it at the source, rather than just focusing on the symptom(s).
My training as a trauma-informed phenomenological, interoceptive psychotherapist means that you can experience safe, powerful and long-lasting healing from trauma through the unity of the mind and body.
Why is a phenomenological,
interoceptive approach so important
when it comes to trauma?
As human beings, we gravitate towards pleasure and avoid pain at all costs. Before we can even recall, we have unconsciously buried our emotional pain because it is too distressing to re-experience.
These untended weeds leave us stranded, stuck in self-destructive cycles we can’t seem to escape. But far from being out of sight and out of mind, unconscious wounds can wreak havoc in our daily lives.
We will do anything to distract ourselves from feeling ‘the feeling’.
We have been conditioned to look ‘without’ - externally - for relief and answers, yet a treasure trove of wisdom, healing and resourcefulness already lies within us, and has done ever since we were born.
We have also been falsely led to believe that the therapeutic window into the mind provides the answer to all problems, yet both body and mind must work in tandem to bring these embedded traumas to light.
When we learn to safely access our inner world (our body), we also learn to become at home in our own skin - and this is when we truly take back control.
You are not broken and you are far more powerful than you may realise.
What is trauma therapy with the
Incorr® Method?
When working with clients who have trauma, I use the Incorr® Method: interoceptive core reconsolidation.
In simple terms, ‘interoceptive core reconsolidation’ means that through our work together, we can safely reach and resolve the primary pain of trauma through interoception — slowly attuning to your body’s inner world.
Our body, or felt sense of our inner world, is where trauma lives, and where transformation begins. Together we phenomenologically explore your inner world, helping you to slowly and safely reach the root cause/s of your pain.
If, after our initial session/s, you decide you would like to embark on a deep healing journey using this method, we both make a conscious contract to work together for a minimum of 6 months.
This is to legitimise and consolidate the depth of the process. If you choose to work together in this way, I would be incredibly honoured to be the person you have chosen to walk this journey alongside you.
Testimonials
“Every time I feel that feeling I just put on my earphones and have a reset for 10 minutes. Hearing my wife and son’s voices just reminds me what’s at stake. I can’t thank my wife enough for doing this for me - I owe her and Clare my continued sobriety.”
Sam
Recovering alcoholic
You’ve really helped me. You're very understanding, reassuring, not judgemental, comforting, and kind, and I want to say about you that you're able to see deep into someone's true essence and teach them how to guide themselves out of darkness.
“S”
Neural Diversity, Depression, Gender Dysphoria
“I was so scared going into school every day worrying what I would face next. I loved the way I was given a script of affirmations to read out loud for my own special recording, with my mum and dad’s voices on there too. I listen to it every night, even though now school is so different and I don’t have to deal with that girl anymore.”
Grace
Therapeutic recording for bullying at school
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“The difference is the depth and the depth makes all the difference”
- Shauna Quigley