Instinctual Trauma ResponseĀ® (ITR)Ā
What if clinicians could help clients resolve trauma more efficiently while a trained team helped expand access to care?
Build a Team Around the License.
One of ITR's most promising applications for behavioral health organizations is task-sharing.
- Expand access to complex trauma treatment
- Reduce wait times for people who need help
- Allow clinicians to work at the top of their license
- Extend clinician capacity through trained human services and peer-support professionals
- Serve more clients without requiring every component of care to consume licensed-clinician time
- Support faster, more focused trauma recovery
- Reduce overwhelming caseload pressure and help address clinician burnout
ITRĀ® is Trusted by these Organizations:Ā
"ResolveĀ the trauma first,Ā and see what's left.ā
Dr. Louis Tinnin
Better Trauma Outcomes. Greater Clinical Capacity.
Clinical directors are facing two challenges at once: clients with increasingly complex trauma and clinicians carrying increasingly demanding caseloads.
Trauma symptoms can mimic or complicate mental health disorders, and unresolved trauma may underlie symptoms that persist despite years of treatment. Clients can become discouraged when they have learned to cope with their symptoms but continue to experience triggers, hypervigilance, emotional reactivity, dissociation, relationship difficulties or other effects of traumatic stress.
Clinicians can become discouraged, too especially when they are working hard, carrying complex caseloads and not seeing the progress they want for their clients.
ITR Addresses the Trauma, Not Just the Symptoms.
The Instinctual Trauma ResponseĀ® (ITR) is a structured, neuroscience-informed approach designed to identify, organize and resolve traumatic experiences without requiring clients to relive or recount them in detail.
ITR recognizes that traumatic stress can become āstuckā within components of the Instinctual Trauma Response including:Ā startle, thwarted fight/flight, freeze, altered state of consciousness, automatic obedienceĀ and self-repair.
Rather than focusing only on helping clients cope with the resulting symptoms, ITR provides a structured process for addressing the underlying traumatic experiences.
The client becomes part of their own recovery team.
Clients learn structured tools they can increasingly understand and use themselves. Rather than creating indefinite dependence on a therapist, ITR seeks to help people become active participants in their own recovery and develop appropriate tools for responding to future triggers and challenges.
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āThe Instinctual Trauma Response model allows for the gentle and rapid processing of haunting traumatic memories in a matter of days, not months or years. Their sensitivity and compassion, along with their exceptionally astute understanding of trauma and the healing process, have produced a significant breakthrough in the field of trauma treatment. I applaud their work, and enthusiastically recommend ITR to all those who treat and support survivors of trauma."Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā
- Glenn Schiraldi, Ph.D., LTC (USAR, Ret) Author of "The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook," "The Resilience Workbook" and "The Adverse Childhood Experiences Recovery Workbook"Ā and other books.
āWhether 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. I think it's the most amazing methodology to hit the trauma field, and it incorporates all of the current "hot" acronyms in a much more thoughtful and personalized way than any of them.ā
- Judith A. Rubin, Ph.D.,Ā 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 Dr. Bessel van der kolk) as āThe greatest trauma mind of the 20th Century.āĀ Dr. Tinnin turned Pierre Janetās work of the 1880ās 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 clientās traumatic material."
- J. Eric Gentry Ph.D., Author of "Forward Facing Trauma Therapy"
āThe 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.ā
- Robert Scaer, MD, Author of "The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease."Ā
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The ITR Training Institute is proud to be a part of the Mental Health Emancipation Movement. We believe effective and fast trauma recovery should be accessibilityĀ for all.Ā āTrauma is not a life sentence.ā It can be resolved in a time-limited fashion.
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