Meet Your Resource Therapy Trainers

Welcome we are glad you found us -Philipa, Chris & Yvette of the Resource Therapy Institute Australia

Philipa Thornton

Hi there, my heart is pulled towards being of service to others in their healing journey, in this beautiful and honorable helping profession.

I am the President of Resource Therapy International. Formerly Vice President of Resource Therapy International, my current role is Australian Executive Director for the Resource Therapy Association. My role on the Association of Imago Relationships Therapists Australia – AIRTA Board committee is Training Coordinator.

Here are my academic credentials- BA Psych (Hons), BA Criminology, Grad. Dip Systemic Couples Therapy, EMDR EMDR Consultant in Training. Certified Imago Couples Therapist, EFT, and EMDR certified practitioner with the EMDR Association of Australia.

Essentially I am a relationship psychologist, a board-approved clinical supervisor of psychologists, and the Founder and CEO of the Resource Therapy Institute Australia with my darling husband Chris Paulin.

After over 25 years in the mental health field, my experience in psychology keeps me busy.

Humbly, I have been featured in Todd Sampson’s Mirror, Mirror Channel 10, Australian Women’s Weekly, Addictions Australia, A Current Affair, The Project, ABC Radio, Radion NZ, and presented at Mental Health Conferences on addictions, trauma in association with the Aboriginal Drug, and Alcohol Council and am regularly interviewed on Radio and other media by journalists on relationship and psychological issues.

Please contact me via Phone at 0434559011 or philipathornton@gmail.com and I will be happy to help you with your story or show.

Chris Paulin

 I am co-Founder with my wife Philipa Thornton of the Resource Therapy Institute Australia. I am also Co-Director of Marriage Works, a professional health service offering relationship and individual therapy.

We run in person and online workshops, offer supervision and master classes in Resource Therapy, here at the Resource Therapy Institute.

My academic qualifications include B.Sc.Psychology Hons. and Master of Clinical Psychology (equivalent to a Clinical Psychologist) and a Senior Clinical Resource Therapist, Advanced Clinical Trainer and an RT Supervisor. I also have extensive training in Systemic Therapies, EMDR (Chris is a founding EMDR Clinician having trained with Francine Shapiro on her first Australian trainings) and Imago Relationship Therapy.

I am registered as a Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency and the Australian Psychology Society.During my career in Psychology, over the past 45 years, I have worked and taught in government provided mental health services, both community and hospital based, and in private practice.

Chris is seeing couples, individuals, couples, and their families. Please call Chris on 0411144646 now to book your time. Weekday and weekend appointments are available.

 Yvette Allen

Yvette is trained in numerous modalities including medical hypnosis, mindfulness, Gestalt Therapy, and Schema Therapy.

She is also a qualified Counselor, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Master Practitioner and Trainer of Hypnosis, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Time Line Therapy®.

Yvette has over 35 years of experience working with a diverse clientele to get life-changing results. 

Meet Yvette Allen

Yvette is registered with:

• The Australian Hypnotherapists’ Association AHA
• National Hypnotherapists Register of Australia (NHRA)
• Resource Therapy International
• The American Board of NLP & Hypnotherapy
• The American Board of Coaching, Counselling & Time Line therapy

Contact Yvette today and see how she can help you be the best you can be.

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What are you ready to change today?

Surely an easy question, yet it’s harder to answer than it looks.

A person comes to therapy to talk about their issues, express their feelings gain a sense of validation and acknowledgement through being heard and accepted. While goals or hopes or focus for the session are common therapy questions; seldom/rarely does a person get asked “What are you ready to change today.”

We make the therapy appointment seeking assistance. You want change possibly knowing there is life beyond where you are right now. Feeling uncertain and only knowing we need ’help and want to change.

Qualified Resource Therapists are trained to assist you through a process that connects you to your emotions, thoughts, feelings and reactivity that are at the heart of why you sought help.

We go to psychotherapy to talk about something that is bugging us, bugging others or issues holding us back stuck in confusion and weighed down by stress.

Resource Therapists target your life issues directly. There is less talking about the issues or lengthy history taking session after session.

All you need to bring into the Resource therapy room is a willingness and desire to change what you want in your life.

Resolution occurs through a process of facilitation rather like  internal family therapy session.  Our Resource States trapped in hurt, emotional pain, guilt, shame, anger, betrayal and abandonment and all those other stuck emotions get an opportunity to heal through validation, appreciation, expression, removal and relief.

Exclusive to us and inside each of us is a rich array of Resource States equipped to help out if called upon. Some are loving states, some are every day living states, some hold trauma trapped in flight or fight responses and others safeguard us from perceived harm.

Many of these states were formed in childhood. Sometimes situations trigger us. Where we respond with childhood coping strategies, not suited to the adult world. We may see Parts express inappropriate anger, rage, fear and the diversity of emotions we each feels in our every day world.

Even as we grow, some of our Resources remain locked in the past, caught up in the old ways of reacting connected to the original experience and emotional charge associate with it.

Resource Therapists call this the Initial Sensitizing Event. This is buried in our subconscious. As an adult most of us would be untroubled/ not bothered by it but to a child it is highly distressing and without attunement and care at the time can be traumatizing.

We can have parts that are scared of connection. When we experienced a parent less than loving at times and let’s face it every parent gets that chance, we may feel neglected, abandoned or unlovable. As adults we may struggle to with relationships and to form appropriate attachments.

Enacting our fears when someone gets close to us as anxiety bubbles up with this long held sense of unlovability. This Resource state feels and believes it is not good enough or deserving of love.

Another Resource state designed to protect you from these overwhelming feelings comes to the surface. It will ‘save the day’ behaving in ways that push others away or become a self fulfilling prophecy and board the self sabotage express as relationships are damaged.

A vicious cycle which your Resource Therapist is an expert at changing, giving you the life and love you want and everyone deserves.

Whatever it is you want to change, change can happen.

Resource Therapy is a brief Parts therapy, bounded in  positive psychology.  Resource Therapy is based on the premise our personality is made up of multifaceted parts, rather than being a homogeneous whole. These parts )which we all have) are called our Resources and we each have many Resources available to help us.

We can thank Disney Pixar for a really clever take on our ‘Parts’ .Watch the movie Inside out here for a fun way to discover our different parts. Perhaps you can relate!

Resource Therapy was developed by Professor Gordon Emmerson combining his knowledge of psychology, Ego State Therapy, Hypnosis and client experience.

In a therapeutic setting Resource Therapy (RT) is a finely crafted tool of precision that gives therapists the most direct access to the part of the personality that is experiencing the presenting issue and provides effective intervention methods in order to resolve them efficiently.

Thus Resource therapy addresses client’s issues in the most direct manner, with results being incredibly fast, effective, efficient and permanent. I liken Resource therapy (Advanced Ego State Therapy) to the Occam’s razor of therapy. This removes the need for symptomatic relief  or any homework as we get to the source of the client’s distress.

The Ship Metaphor – Life at Sea
As a means to show your Resources and how they operate, imagine if you will a big old ship of yesteryear, like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies with Geoffrey Rush, Johnny Depp, Keith Richards Keira Knightley, and Orlando Bloom on board  the Black Pearl with Captain Jack Sparrow.

Think of your body as the Black Pearl, which has a spinnaker wheel, on the the bridge (your brain) that determines where you are going on the sea of life and how to handle situations and emotions.

A Resource is a personality part that is at the helm of the ship, dealing with the ebb and flow of life, negotiating a safe return to port or sailing the sevens seas looking for adventure.

To run this huge ship of course requires many hands (our Resource States). So there there will be other parts on deck nearby close to the helm ready to step onto the bridge to take the wheel, if so required, some below deck and more buried in the depths of the ship that may rarely come to the surface (the subconscious).

Each of your crew on your ship can be thought of as our inner ‘Resources’, with their many individual, specific talents, abilities, knowledge, and sometimes fragility.

For the scientifically minded -conceptually our Resource States are a neural pathway that has been formed via repetition. For further information on the Neuroscience behind Resource Therapy please click here.

The secret to inner peace is getting all our Resources healed and  working in harmony together as a happy healthy inner family on our ship, that allows robust discussion, respect for each parts perspectives, opinions (Resources can have differing opinions, skills and abilities) and vulnerabilities.

Resource Therapy origins and influences

Like most modern day psychological therapies Resource Therapy has grown out of  psycho-dynamic traditions.

The Goal of Resource Therapy

Resource Therapy works by insuring the therapist works directly with the Resource that needs change. As effective therapists we need to be changolists!

How many times have you had a client sit in front of you telling you about the problem and the great insights they have into their issues but feeling stuck and despondent, despite this awareness?

This is because we are usually talking to a Resource State that is aware of the problem but not the  Resource State that needs to be worked with directly.

The real power for change is when the therapist brings into the Conscious the pathological or emotional state and works directly with this State.

Learning to work directly with the State that needs help provides therapists laser precision therapy to get to the goal and the solution.

According to Professor Emmerson these inner Resources can exist in five conditions:

• Normal – peaceful and contented
  

  

  This is the aim of Resource Therapists.

• Vaded – overwhelmed in unwanted strong emotions ( Pathological State)
  

  

  These Resource States are those that have been traumatized, through either a single incident say an auto accident, assault or robbery. Or through a a series of events neglect, punishment or rejections.

• Retro – unhelpful and unwanted behaviors ( Pathological State)
  

  

• Conflicted – Where parts are at odds to the extent they cause angst (Pathological States)
  

  

• Dissonant – Where the wrong part is out and feels very uncomfortable in a particular situation (Dysfunctional State)
  

  

  

The goal of Resource Therapy is for pathological or dysfunctional states to return to a state of normality.

Trained Resource Therapists accomplish this in a four step process:

1.  Aim: Determine what the client is ready to change, ( Phew no guess work!)
2. Classify: Diagnose the pathological State, ( only eight pathological categories!)
3. Actions : apply the appropriate Resource Therapy Actions for the diagnosis. ( 15 Resource Therapy Actions that provide clear protocols for effective treatment.
4.  Review: Debrief with the client. ( Ensure work is complete)

As psychologists, counselors, therapists and coaches I believe we have answered  a call into the healing profession as we are drawn to helping people feel better and resolving their problems.

This to me is a very wonderful calling and I am dedicated to helping therapists build a busy successful and effective therapy practice. This is the reason Chris and I are training other therapists in Resource Therapy. I am practical and  I like to clients get results and freedom from their issues. Resource Therapy provides the answer.

Find out how you can learn Resource Therapy and benefit from a busy practice with satisfied clients who feel better within themselves and refer others

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