Resource Therapy

February 1, 2022January 31, 2022

Hybrid Training on Offer March 13/14

Hey guys, loads of exciting things to come this year. Imago Couples Therapy Training is coming online to us down under. I will keep you in the loop.

EMDR Weekend one with Nick Cocco, online coming up. Nick trained with Francine Shapiro in one of the first Australian training and is an EMDRIA Institute trainer. That’s a big deal.

Our first Foundation Program introducing you to Resource Therapy (Advanced Ego State Therapy) and the power of working directly with parts is going to be both online and in person.

We will offer you a small in-person group experience and also have others on Zoom. Hurry to book your place if you want to secure your seat in Randwick Sydney. Early bird special applies. Please send me an email to register your interest in any of the above training, just let me know which you are hoping to attend.

Watch this space for Resource Therapy for PTSD two-day workshop. To attend you must hold the full Clinical Resource Therapy Certification.

Thank you beautiful therapists for healing our hurt parts and processing past experiences to resolution.

February 1, 2022February 2, 2022

Learn the Secret Sauce to Running a Successful Private Practice Business

January guest Neville Starrick shares the secret sauce for private practice success on the Resourceful Therapist YouTube Channel

Happy 2022 Resourceful Therapists! Super excited to have my amazing guest Neville Starick on The Resourceful Therapist YouTube Channel January 2022 episode. A perfect start to the year.

We had a great chat. It was lovely getting to know Neville’s previous life, prior to counseling. Neville has totally upskilled my accounting practices, to his credit.

He’s created an amazing niche from his experience to assist therapists launch and maintain sustainable and ethical therapy businesses.

The Resourceful Therapist YouTube Running a Successful Private Practice Business with Neville Starrick

In the second half, you will get some invaluable tips for your counseling or psychology business.

Neville’s passion for supporting others shines through, he has a program available – Therapy Business Booster covering practical and essential skills for any business owner.

One possibly challenging suggestion is to think about raising your fees. When might be the best time for you and your clients? Neville shares how he discovered while delivering quality care and great rates, he was struggling to put food on the table.

While we are in the people business it is only fair therapists earn a decent living while having the freedom to see both your full fee-paying and paying it forward with a sliding scale. As I said in the podcast the regular paying clients mean you can have space for those who are in struggle street. Find out more about the secret business sauce by watching and subscribing to our channel to get the latest updates.

Enjoy the latest episode of the Resourceful Therapist here. Love to hear your feedback thanks for watching.

December 7, 2021December 6, 2021

Blocking Beliefs in EMDR, a Parts Perspective

As a trained EMDR therapist, I belong to a EMDR Clinician group Facebook (hmm Metaverse, who knows?) . It has lots of aweosme therapists and information. After seeing a post requesting help on Blocking Beliefs, I thought it would be helpful to view this from a parts therapy model as I note a lot of people are trained in Ego State Therapy. In EMDR therapy these beliefs may sabotage or limit effective processing and must be attended to. Jim Knipe has some excellent information on this.

Coming from a parts therapy lens, Resource Therapy (RT) views these as the personality aspects, unique to us. Designed to help us possilby in ways that no longer serve. They require some negotiation as in the case blocking reprocessing or access.

You may have seen these parts of clients in your office. Perhaps they have an intellectual question they roll out – Why? Why would have to be one of the commonest I have heard. This is an intellectual State heading off intense affect. Or also popular is ‘ I can’t do this/ speak ill of… you fill in the blank. Usually, as a means to protect the person from some percieved guilt, shame or fear.

These are adaptive parts, in RT terms Retro States ( a part also known as a type of Ego State/ Resource) developed to support our emotional selves coming out on the deck of our ship with their fragile, possibly overwhelming affective sensory experience. Avoidance hypervigilance is often a natural defense considering what a client has been exposed to.

Whilst they do hold a belief that blocks it’s often due to the Retro State’s lack of awareness. Trapped in the belief if they don’t stop things, it may be too much emotionally. You can see the logic.

In RT we work directly with this part using the Resistance Alliancing Protocol RT Action 13. With this easy method, there are a couple of ways to get this State onside for therapy to continue and sidestep block beliefs artfully. For a quick look at this technique jump over to RT Action 13.

At its heart, Resource Therapy holds ALL OUR parts are there for a reason.

Yours in service to healing,

Philipa xox

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