IDENTITY-ORIENTED PSYCHOTRAUMA THERAPY
Identity-oriented Psychotrauma Therapy (IoPT) is the theory and method developed by Franz Ruppert (Munich) over the past thirty years. It is a sound, safe and profoundly effective way of understanding, processing and re-integrating our early trauma, from conception onwards – focusing primarily on our in utero time, birth and early childhood. Based on the understanding that, in order to ensure our physical survival, our psyche splits off the experiences that would otherwise be utterly overwhelming for us, IoPT provides a secure framework to slowly build up our sense of ‘healthy self’, begin to recognize our ‘survival strategies’ and step-by-step to gradually make contact with – and feel - our frozen, unexpressed emotions and physiological experiences from the earliest time in our lives. Working experientially with your chosen ‘intention’ – either one-to-one or in a group setting - IoPT enables a gentle re-integration of body and mind. As we come closer to the truth of who we really are, rather than who we have had to be, previously entrenched physical ‘illnesses’ and ‘mental health issues’no longer have such control over us and we become increasingly free to live the life we want for ourselves.