Trauma is a completely normal reaction to something stressful or distressing that is usually out of our control and hard to cope with. Left untreated, trauma can overwhelm a person and lead to lasting psychological wounds. Symptoms of trauma can include anxiety, depression, flashbacks, and chronic pain. Those with trauma may also avoid reminders of the trauma and withdraw from social situations.

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At Inner Strength Counseling, Tasia Cloutier provides Post-induction therapy and provides Accelerated Resolution Therapy as part of her services. From her location in Wayzata, MN, she serves the surrounding communities of Excelsior, Shorewood, Chanhassen, Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, Deephaven, Hopkins, Plymouth, Golden Valley, and St. Louis Park, and provide online treatment for Minnesota residents.

 

Post Induction Therapy

 

Post Induction Therapy supports healing for anyone whose childhood was less than nurturing or they experienced shame, abuse, or neglect. It applies to everyone in the sense that no one’s family system was perfect, and everyone experienced some level of dysfunction that negatively impacted them. It is a therapeutic approach that can be learned and utilized in many different facets of someone’s life that helps them to heal wounds, heal trauma, heal shame, and just help one be a healthier person overall.

 

Post Induction Therapy is a model to assist people with codependency. Codependency stems from the relationship between a child and their primary caregiver, where the overwhelming feelings of the caregiver overflow onto the child. The child becomes focused on ensuring the caregiver’s emotional well-being and neglects their own well-being. When the child grows up, they tend to enable negative or addictive behavior in others and may develop their own. The neglect of their personal needs hampers their emotional maturity and ability to cope with life’s challenges.

 

Post Induction Therapy consists of psychoeducation, written work, and experiential processing. It’s about getting to the truth of what happened and how it may have impacted you. It is an experience that enables you to:

 

• Get an accurate history of your life

• Understand what relational trauma is and how it affects you

• Heal wounds and negative behavior

• Know how to be the best version of yourself

 

Post Induction Therapy was developed by Pia Mellody through her work at The Meadows inpatient treatment center. Pia was a survivor of childhood trauma and developed Post Induction Therapy as she found that the traditional treatment strategies used in the 1970’s were inadequate to address and help her clients. As a result, she came up with her own strategies that assisted with her own recovery as well as her client’s recovery. These methods were found to be of great success and thus she devoted time to creating a model to teach others.

 

Benefits of Post Induction Therapy

 

When you engage in Post Induction Therapy, you can experience the following benefits:

• A stronger sense of self

• Better and stronger boundaries

• The chance to grieve the loss of what you needed and deserved

• The capacity to live more in the truth of who you are

• The ability to be relational, connect with yourself, and share your vulnerability with others

• The ability to self-regulate in the moments in which you feel triggered or wounded

• The opportunity to identify wounded and adapted parts of yourself that need re-parenting

• The capacity to live from a place of truth and power instead of reaction

 

Visit the website for more information - Healing Trauma Network | Promoting Growth in PIT and HOCI Therapy

 

ART (Accelerated Resolution Therapy)

 

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a unique approach to psychotherapy. ART is unique because the ART Therapist guides the client to replace the negative images in the mind that cause the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress with positive images of the client’s choosing. And this is done quickly, most often within one session! Once the negative images have been replaced by positive ones, the triggers will be gone. Nightmares and repeated intrusive thoughts will stop.

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ART is also unique in that it combines the enormous power of eye movements to allow voluntary changes in the client’s mind with well-established therapies like Gestalt, Psychodynamic Therapy and Guided Imagery. Within the ART protocol, the eye movements, along with other ART enhancements, make these therapies work much faster and more effectively.

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One of the special aspects of ART is that when clients replace their negative images with positive ones, they don’t need to talk to the therapist about any details of the trauma. This is because ART is procedural, though creative; and the client is really in control of the process, while the ART Therapist is a helpful guide. This makes the therapy easier on the client and easier on the therapist.

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