The Richards Trauma Process

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TRTP™ is an elegantly simple, yet comprehensive, step-by-step process which resolves extreme trauma and trauma-related issues – anxiety, depression, fears and phobias. It achieves results quickly, effectively and safely – generally in three 2-hour sessions. It is a dynamic, rich and sequenced series of steps, which, if separated would not be anywhere near as powerful. It is unique. It allows space for the individual client’s needs to be met. TRTP makes use of deep imagination. Deep imagination is used in order to deal with trauma where it is stored – in the subconscious and in the body.

TRTP is in alignment with the two requirements identified by the work of van der Kolk, Levine and other trauma experts, who tell us that for trauma to be resolved:

• the person must (somehow) be moved to an empowered position in regard to the trauma and
• the body must (somehow) know that the event / events are over.

TRTP initially deals with the underlying, unconscious core beliefs which keep a person stuck in patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour. In dealing with this at the beginning of the process, self-sabotage is avoided during the following therapy.

TRTP then takes the emotional charge from the past, moving the client to a place of empowerment in relation to the trauma. Because deep imagination is used, the therapist can then speak directly to the body and to the unconscious. The client is shifted from fight/flight/freeze and moved to an empowered, self-regulated state. The sympathetic nervous system is calmed. The memory of the trauma is placed firmly in the past.

The client quickly moves from their state of fight, flight, freeze – ‘I’m not safe!’ To, ‘It’s over. I’m safe now…’ Calm returns, on all levels. Symptoms cease.

TRTP does not merely address the symptoms of trauma. It deals with the underlying cause of the problem, removing the emotional charge from the past and returning the person to a state of empowerment, returning the sympathetic nervous system to calm. 

Janet is an officially accredited TRTP practitioner.

There are no guarantees in any mental health therapy but TRTP has a very high rate of success. In fact, at Camino Counselling we are yet to have a single client who has not improved their wellbeing after the therapy! 

Most therapists charge $1500 or more for the program and there are no added fees or hidden costly extras. Naturally, you may wish to continue seeing your counsellor for other issues after the therapy concludes, at our usual hourly rates.