Therapy Advice – Resource Therapy

November 16, 2023November 15, 2023

Cultivating Wellness: Harnessing Resource Therapy to Transform Distress and Behavioral Challenges

Resource Therapy’s effectiveness in dealing with parts in distress or behavioral disturbances is significantly enhanced by its specific action steps and targeted interventions:

Diagnosis and Identification: The therapy begins with a precise diagnosis and identification of the part in distress. This involves understanding the part’s role, its emotional state, and how it’s contributing to the client’s current challenges. Such clear identification is a crucial first step that sets the stage for targeted interventions. Here we deploy RT 15 Treatment actions.
Direct Communication with Distressed Parts: Resource Therapy facilitates respectful direct communication with the distressed part. This interaction allows the therapist and client to understand the part’s needs, fears, and motivations, leading to more effective treatment strategies, and enhancing self-compassion.
State-Specific Interventions: Resource Therapy uses state-specific interventions tailored to the condition of the distressed part. These interventions are designed to be directly relevant to the part’s current state, ensuring that the therapy is both efficient and effective. RT Therapists know the conditions can change from wounded to a sense of safety and peace.
Negotiation and Reconciliation: The therapy involves negotiation and reconciliation between parts. This step is vital in cases where behavioral disturbances arise from internal conflicts or imbalances between different parts. The key is Retro State Negotiation or our conflicted State protocol.
Empowering the Parts: Resource Therapy focuses on empowering the parts, particularly those that are distressed or causing behavioral issues. By strengthening these parts and helping them fulfill their roles more effectively, the therapy aims to reduce symptoms and improve overall functioning.
Integration and Resolution: A key goal in Resource Therapy is to integrate the distressed part back into the personality system in a healthier, more harmonious way. This integration is crucial for the long-term resolution of the issues and for preventing recurrence.
Action-Oriented Techniques: The therapy includes specific, action-oriented techniques such as role-playing or re-experiencing past events in a safe environment. These techniques help the client to directly confront and resolve the issues associated with the distressed part.
Creating New Responses: Resource Therapy aims to create new, healthier responses and behaviors. By working with the part in distress, the client learns to develop alternative ways of reacting and coping, which are more adaptive and less disruptive.
Feedback and Adjustment: Throughout the process, there is continuous feedback and adjustment of strategies based on the client’s response. This ensures that the therapy remains relevant and effective for the client’s unique needs.

By employing these specific action steps, Resource Therapy provides a structured yet flexible framework for addressing parts in distress or behavioral disturbances. This approach not only helps in resolving current issues but also equips clients with the tools to manage future challenges more effectively.

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September 17, 2019September 16, 2019

Emotional Pain & Stuckness suck…

Sadness honours our loss. Stuckness doesn't.

Over the years most of us have had to deal with the pain of grief and loss. It’s a sad and necessary part of life. When the leaving is unexpected, like in the bereavement of suicide or accident, or ending of a significant relationship it’s painful and difficult to compute this tragic loss.

Grief can lay us flat, set in stuckness if left unprocessed in our emotional brain. — Grief can lay us flat, set in stuckness

Yet there are often so many unspoken sentiments, love shared, conversations unexpressed.

Guilt and rumination are common side effects of those bereaved by suicide. Resource Therapy heals with it's Closure Conversation. — Guilt and rumination are common side effects of those bereaved by suicide. Resource Therapy heals with it’s Closure Conversation.

After losing my Uncle to suicide in my teens, I struggled with so many unanswered questions. I was angry, hurt and felt betrayed. Guilt and a sense of over-responsibility plagued me in the quiet of night. It would come and go, sending me low.

I imagined what I could of said, did to stop him from hurting himself. Of course life carried on but there was a huge gap my teen age self felt keenly over the years.

When love wilts it's hard to deal with our feelings of loss

Grief is a wonderful expression of the love for the loss of our loved ones or the ending of something special. This felt heavier.

As you will see on my video, a Resource Therapy session relieved me of the unresolved emotional burden. I was freed from my resentment towards my father, the abandonment of my Uncle.

It was the AHA understanding from an emotional perspective which changed my inner landscape.

Intellectually as both a person and a mental health professional I ‘knew’ he was suffering from a dark depression.

This emotional freedom and release I experienced sold me on the power of Resource Therapy in healing.

I had years of therapy! At great cost. Yet in this one session I gained emotional closure and inner peace. Free too as I was a client volunteer!

There are many treatments and therapies offering wonderfully supportive grief and loss processing.

Resource Therapy is the one I use with amazing effect. Long held hurt is released in the therapy hour. Guilt and shame replaced with love, acceptance and personal peace.

Personal peace from loss cannot be underestimated. Find freedom today with Resource Therapist in your area.

There are clearly defined steps to have what I call ‘Closure Conversations.’ Here we apply the Resource Therapy steps to address and process burdensome grief, shift shame, and let go of guilt.

These sessions I have are some of the most moving and heartfelt therapy I have been privileged to facilitate.

Here’s the latest from the Resource Therapy Institute Australia YouTube Channel – on Closure Conversations. Please see below and I would love it if you would be so kind to like, subscribe and help!

We are having our last training for the year Nov 4 & 5 in Sydney. Details here https://resourcetherapy.com.au/resource-therapy-foundation-training-online-philipa-thornton-sydney/

September 3, 2019September 3, 2019

Introducing the Somatic Bridge for Trauma Therapists and Specialists.

Bridging to the Initial Sensitising Event is crucial to emotional processing the root cause of clients anxiety. The somatic bridge offers a new way for Resource Therapists to access the Part who is in need.

Bridging is a essential element of emotional processing necessary for treating Post traumatic stress, underlying anxieties. These Parts are the ones when at the helm bring with them overwhelm, anxiety and feelings low self worth.

Healing the origins of our pain, allows us to live our highest potential.

Integral to healing is finding the root cause of the issue. Resource Therapists apply Action step 2 the Vivify Specific protocol. RT Action step 2 gets the part we need to be working with out in the conscious. Out on deck for us to facilitate access to the original sensitizing event.

I have recorded a 3 part series of a new option for bridging. Bridging is an essential part of the Resource Therapy Vaded State Protocol. These Resource Therapy Actions are at the heart of healing PTSD, anxiety, phobias, poor self esteem for clients and ourselves. When we reach the Initial Sensitizing Event (I.S.E), we have floated back to the original trauma. As we know when we knock out the roots of the tree it dies out.

What this means for trauma if we get to the earliest event, empower and heal the Part with the issue it is resolved. This Resource part no longer needs to act out or has overwhelming emotions from this past. It is returned to a state of health and well-being.

We know this from the research and work of Bessel Van De Kolk; Pat Ogden, Janina Fisher and Peter Levine.

Please watch all three parts for the complete picture. I need your help as I haven’t quite decided on a name yet.

What would you call this bridging technique – the Somatic bridge, the Sensorimotor bridge or other bridge?

Thanks for again for completing the whole three videos and please share to others who would be interested in Resource Therapy and it’s uses in treating trauma effectively.

Here is the YouTube Channel of Resource Therapy please subscribe.