With all the hurricanes and earthquakes that have been happening in parts of North America in the last few months, people are suffering due to being displaced and losing homes, property, loved ones, and other unpleasant consequences from these natural disasters.  Getting on with life can be very difficult and arduous, to say the least.  What often gets overlooked in these situations is the emotional suffering that can make things even harder for someone who has been victimized by these horrific events.

Have you ever found yourself perseverating about something that happened in the past and been unable to get your mind off it?  Have you ever found yourself reacting to new situations as if they were something from your childhood or a recurring horrific event you consciously know has passed?  Does this happen despite what you tell yourself before or during these events?  If this is the case with you, your thinking may be being driven by trauma.

It is a gentle form of therapy for people who tend to be easily intimidated by typical forms of therapy, such as Exposure Therapy, traditional talk therapy, and even EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).  All of these require the client to revisit the event that is troubling them in some degree of detail.  Image Transformation Therapy (ImTT) enlists the body to help work through the issue(s) that the mind won’t or can’t get a grasp of.  By visualizing a color in the body that represents the trapped pain or fear, it removes the burden of the client to revisit a painful memory or situation and helps to resolve it.