COURTNEY ARMSTRONG, MEd. LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and Nationally Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy who specializes in grief and trauma recovery. With a career spanning more than two decades, she is the founder of the Institute for Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy and developed her Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy(TM) approach after studying with numerous trauma experts and helping thousands of clients overcome trauma and grief.
You can find out more about Courtney on her website Real World Therapy.
We talk to Courtney about memory reconsolidation and her new book Rethinking Trauma Treatment: Attachment, Memory Reconsolidation, and Resiliance.
We have a bundle of articles on memory reconsolidation right here in our Academy – with two articles from Courtney – Creative Memory Reconsolidation, and Music: A Powerful Ally in the Therapy Room.
Also, Courtney will be in Australia this September for a conference and workshops
The Neuroscience Breakthroughs that Change How we Treat TraumaCome to this workshop and join Courtney Armstrong who will provide you with step-by-step instructions and techniques you can use in each phase of trauma treatment. This trauma training will specifically focus on skills and techniques that will assist in creating the phenomena of memory reconsolidation. Courtney Armstrong will show you why memory reconsolidation is necessary for effectively and permanently healing trauma. She will give you a simple protocol to use to reconsolidate a traumatic memory in as little as one session!
Course Dates:
Sydney: 9 September 2019, SMC Conference & Function Centre
Melbourne: 11 September 2019, Bayview on the Park
Brisbane: 13 September 2019, Mantra on Queen
Adelaide: 16 September 2019, Next Gen Memorial Drive
Perth: 18 September 2019, Wollaston Conference Centre
– you can find more details HERE.
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This sounds just like Matrix Reimprinting that we use with EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique! Thank you!
Sherrie Smith, Ecker has documented a whole variety of therapy approaches that elicit TRP (therapeutic reconsolidation process) and EFT is included in the list. Please see “Psychotherapies shown to carry out memory reconsolidation” on the Coherence Therapies Institute website. It clearly focuses on ‘the problem’ in set-up (in traditional EFT) and reminder phrase then introduces a juxtaposition. Repetition during the labile phase also closely follows the TRP model.
Courtney did, of course, mention that reconsolidation is not a school or style of therapy; it is an approach that is common to a vast range of techniques/paradigms.
Courtney’s contribution to the podcast was illuminating and confirmatory at the same time: proof, too, that rich, experiential work is so valuable in eliciting positive and enduring personal change. Work in deep relaxation and hypnosis is powerful in achieving this same inner awareness that Richard Hill mentioned in indigenous culture and the benefits, too, of shamanic approaches to personal well-being.
Thanks for airing a worthwhile podcast guys!