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6 month RRP Healing Group therapy

Groups of people with a shared goal and similar histories can create together a safe and secure environment within which to explore the sensitive and overwhelming experience of childhood trauma. Sharing the process of discovery with other people "who get it" is  powerfully validating and allows us to believe more in ourselves. Hearing the experiences of others broadens and deepens our understanding of our journey and gives perspective to our process. 

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RRP (Relationship Recovery Process) developed by Amanda Curtin, and the six month protocol, expanded by Patrick Teahan, provide a valuable way to "get our feet wet" and begin to explore childhood trauma. It is both a "stand alone" group and also serves as an introduction to the more extensive RRP groups which explore our childhood trauma and its impact, in greater depth. 

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Individual RRP therapy

Using RRP (Relationship Recovery Process) with individuals offers  the opportunity to explore our inner world of feelings and experiences in a safe and supportive environment. The focus of the work is to understand our childhood traumas and the way they impact on our relationships. The focus of  RRP in individual therapy is to understand and deeply experience how childhood trauma affected us as children and continues to affect our lives today. Triggers in our daily lives can become opportunities for greater love and connection, rather than frustrations and pain.

We can learn to heal the wounds of our inner child and increase intimacy in our relationships.

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Couples RRP therapy

Anyone who is or has been in a relationship knows how challenging and frustrating it is to find ourselves in patterns which cause tension, anger and pain. We may be aware of these  patterns and yet be at a loss to change them.

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 It is difficult to change deeply rooted interactions which cause couples to hurt each other and block the  intimacy that they are seeking. RRP (Relationship Recovery Process) developed by Amanda Curtin,  allows couples to gain appreciation of their own childhood trauma and how the trauma affects their  interactions with their partners. This process occurs in the presence of and with the support of their partner.  The program also helps each person gain understanding and compassion for their partners traumas and defenses. RRP offers a specific method of working on conflict which deepens understanding while helping to resolve issues in their relationship.

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Parents RRP therapy

Parenting can be one of the most challenging and rewarding tasks in life. Children trigger us as almost no one else can. Parenting requires we be attuned to the needs of our children to nurture them. Parenting is based on creating a secure attachment with our children; a process which begins at birth and continues for years. (Some say for a lifetime!). Often we are not physically or emotionally open and available to see the needs of our children. At those times, we get triggered by their behavior and moods, leaving us feeling we have let them down or are inadequate parents.

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Our childhood trauma can make us vulnerable to these triggers. We may find our inner child tries desperately but ineffectively to parent our own children. By processing our own childhood trauma, we not only avoid repeating abusive and neglectful patterns, but give ourselves the parenting we did not receive. We can learn to relieve our inner child of the inappropriate task of parenting and strengthen our inner adult to parent our children more effectively. Using RRP (Relationship Recovery Program) is a highly effective way for parents to re-parent their inner child and through the process, become stronger and more capable parents.