Trauma Can Be Healed
ITR® EMPOWERS people to fully recover from trauma with self-help tools for life.
Instinctual Trauma Response® (ITR):
A structured approach to trauma recovery encompassing the entire brain, drawing from art therapy, parts therapy, and neuroscience.
- Completes fragmented trauma memories without reliving experiences
- Works for all trauma types, including preverbal
- Can be used independently or with a facilitator
- Suitable for individual or group settings
- Effective across age groups: children (3+), adolescents, and adults
- Significantly reduces or eliminates trauma symptoms
“Resolve the trauma first and see what's left.”
Many suffer silently, feeling they're "crazy" because nothing they've tried has worked. But you're not crazy. Life's traumas have real consequences like anxiety, hyperactivity, fears, self-mutilation, obesity, nightmares, flashbacks, and depression.
Trauma's effects are often misunderstood in mental health. ITR recognizes trauma's potential consequences as being "stuck" in components like startle, fight/flight, freeze, altered consciousness, automatic obedience, or self-repair. Living with this toxic stress can be devastating, leaving many feeling hopeless and irreparably broken. Help options can be confusing, slow, re-traumatizing, and yield minimal results.
Instinctual Trauma Response® (ITR) prioritizes addressing root causes over treating symptoms. It offers a gentle, non-invasive approach to trauma, guiding individuals through simple yet effective tasks to swiftly overcome being 'stuck,' reconsolidate traumatic memories, halt traumatic experiences without reliving them, and calm internal chaos.
If you're a mental health provider or a trauma survivor feeling frustrated by ineffective past efforts or temporary coping techniques, ITR can educate and empower you to break free from the past, live fully in the present, and thrive in the future. We don't just offer hope; we offer healing.
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Be more than trauma-informed, be trauma-effective and parts-informed.
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ITR Training is available to anyone wanting to learn and help.
Who We Are
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Help For Trauma and the ITR Training Institute are proud to be a part of the Mental Health Freedom Movement. We believe in accessibility to effective mental health for all. “Trauma is not a life sentence.” It can be resolved in a time-limited fashion.
About UsTestimonials
“The therapeutic implications of this concept are profound, and are addressed in detail, providing theory and application of techniques that embrace both cognitive and non-verbal somatic/behavioral elements.”
- Robert Scaer, MD
Author of The Body Bears the Burden, The Trauma Spectrum, and Eight Keys to Body-Brain Balance
“Whether acute or sustained, the effects of trauma on the brain can lead not only to anguish for the client, but also to frustration for the clinician. These painful conditions, so often resistant to even the most sophisticated therapies, are now, thanks to the dedication of Drs. Tinnin and Gantt, able to be approached with a new and remarkably successful methodology. This is a model for responsible and effective care.”
- Judith A. Rubin, Ph.D., ATR-BC
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
"I studied under Dr. Louis Tinnin, a towering figure in the field of trauma research and treatment who has been described (by Bessel van der Kolk) as ‘the greatest trauma mind of the 20th Century.’ Dr. Tinnin turned Pierre Janet’s work of the 1880’s into a comprehensive treatment model for effectively treating trauma and dissociation. I was able to assist in some of the research that demonstrated the effectiveness of this treatment. Lou taught me two very important ingredients in successfully treating trauma: the value of narrative and a fearless approach of the client’s traumatic material."
- J. Eric Gentry Ph.D., "Forward Facing Trauma Therapy"
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