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...

A History of the Study of Trauma

a Blog Post by me

"I'm the enemy of the unlived, meaningless life"

(Bob Dylan, False Prophet)

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"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."

Trauma and Identity, 2021.

Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

On the Trauma of Identity and the Trauma of Love:

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

(Vivian Broughton - 2021)

Personal statement: I am a psychotrauma practitioner (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.

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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)

Blog posts

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CORONAVIRUS

German Versions of some blogs

"My mother was a perpetrator" 12/8/19

Will and I - Tales from the edge 8/8/19

That Blasted Rock - a poem by Kate Collier 1/6/19

Considering Your Intention 13/4/18

A Perspective on Sexuality 5/4/18

What does it mean to be in our 'Healthy Self'? 08/03/16

Stages of Healing 30/11/17

Steps to Understanding Re-traumatisation 24/4/17

Trauma of Identity & the Unwanted Child 25/2/17

Trauma, Consciousness & 'the Banality of Evil'

Who am I... really? 19/9/16

The Intention Method 3/8/16

"What's in a name?" - identifications and attributions 8/5/16

What does it mean to be in our 'Healthy Self'? 8/3/16