On IoPT Practice

On IoPT Practice · 05. February 2021

Becoming an IOPT Practitioner

BECOMING AN IOPT PRACTITIONER Becoming an IOPT practitioner is a serious business. To give you some idea of this I would remind you that a conventional psychotherapy training is usually around seven years of intensive training to arrive at a basic level of competence. As an IOPT practitioner you would be working with people who are sometimes highly traumatised, and who often have extremely vulnerable psyches. This is a considerable responsibility, and requires you to be safe for them, and the...

Steps to understanding re-traumatisation

Working with trauma as the central issue of our work means that we must understand the dynamics and processes of trauma, including the phenomenon known as re-traumatisation. Because as practitioners of a therapy that centralises trauma, re-traumatisation in our work will happen, and we need to know exactly what we are talking about, and as practitioners what is required of us in that moment. So this essay sets out to do four things: Define as exactly as I can what re-traumatisation is; Then...

Please Note...

I have now split the education & learning (training) events to another website: www.iopt-practitioner-events.com

EDUCATION COURSES & PRACTITIONER SEMINARS

IOPT BOOKS FOR SALE

On the Trauma of Identity and the Trauma of Love:

"As the mother’s psyche is split, so her heart is split also."

(From my forthcoming book, Trauma & Identity due out mid 2021)

Personal statement: I am a psychotrauma therapist (originally a Gestalt psychotherapist) with over 30 years experience. My passion is working with people where there is the possibility of real, healthy emotional contact, where truth is honoured, and reality takes precedence over illusions. For more about me click here.

"All the trauma in the world comes originally from children trying to adjust to environments that are sometimes crazily impossible for them to understand and manage."

Taken from my next book, due out mid 2021.

"Be in love with your life. Every minute of it." Jack Kerouac.

What is the purpose of Life?

To live a good life, and to come to know who I really am.

"There are so many people in the world who have a good amount of 'healthy I'; it's just that they also have unresolved trauma and slide so easily into their survival strategies and ruin it all for themselves." (Vivian)