Resolve Trauma With TIR

With Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), traumatic events can be addressed in a safe environment; free of distractions, judgments, or interpretations. In addition, unwanted persistent feelings, emotions, sensations, attitudes, and pains can be addressed using this technique, even without immediate memory of traumatic incidents associated with them.

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How does it work?

When something happens that is physically or emotionally painful, we have the option of either facing it fully and feeling the pain, or trying in some way to block our awareness of it. In the first case, the action of experiencing (perceiving and understanding) what has occurred is allowed to go to completion and the incident becomes a past incident. However, in the second case, the action of experiencing that incident is blocked. That is, one represses the incident, and the incident (together with the intention not to experience it and any other intentions and activities present during the incident) continues to exist as ongoing unfinished business. Such traumatic incidents may continue to exert negative effects.

This blocking activity is a self-protective impulse. It “works” to a certain extent, but it can cause us to have attention and awareness tied up in incidents from the past. This has a dulling effect on our ability to perceive, to respond intelligently in the present, and to enjoy our current environment. Unexamined, unresolved past events tie up our energy and intention.

Traumatic Incident Reduction provides a safe space and the means to fully examine that which has been blocked.

A past incident loses its ability to hurt us once we have looked at it through and through. In the process, we release our resistance and the painful emotion and negative thought patterns contained in that past trauma. At the point where the incident has been fully viewed, we feel our attention become unstuck from it and often have an insight or realization. This is called an end point.

By allowing you to completely face a painful incident, TIR delivers relief from the incident’s negative effects, enabling us to fully move on.

Any severe and shocking event can be addressed with Traumatic Incident Reduction

Any severe and shocking event can be addressed with Traumatic Incident Reduction.

In addition, unwanted persistent feelings, emotions, sensations, attitudes, and pains can be addressed, even if you have no immediate memory of traumatic incidents connected to that feeling.

Traumatic Incident Reduction can provide:

Relief from anxiety, guilt, and dread of what the future may bring
Reduction of intrusive thoughts of past traumatic incidents; these incidents lose their power over you
Relief from the sometimes overwhelming pain of bereavement and reconnecting with the love you felt for a lost loved one
Relief from second-guessing what you should have or shouldn’t have done in a crisis

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“Since I did the session, I can no longer feel the pain previously contained in that memory. It really has gone permanently …TIR really does deliver.” ~J. Lockethomson, Victim Support, Sutton, U.K.2

“I have been helped…a whole lot more than I had expected. I am becoming increasingly more able to cope with upsetting situations. Ordinary, everyday events seem less and less to trigger recurring thoughts of my war experiences. I find, finally, that I can once again look forward to enjoying all that life has in store for me, without reservation.” ~D. W. Powell, Phoenix, AZ USA2

“TIR provides a way to look through the rear-view mirror of your life and to move forward with healing acceptance so your future once again is within your own reach.”“I have been helped…a whole lot more than I had expected. I am becoming increasingly more able to cope with upsetting situations. Ordinary, everyday events seem less and less to trigger recurring thoughts of my war experiences. I find, finally, that I can once again look forward to enjoying all that life has in store for me, without reservation.” ~D. W. Powell, Phoenix, AZ USA2

What makes TIR different?

In a Traumatic Incident Reduction session, clients find their own answers through a list of powerful questions, and through deep listening without any judgement, reaction, or interruption. Sessions have no set length; they end when the client has reached their end point for that day. With TIR, the client is always left in a somewhat better place.