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PA Victim Service Agency to offer TIR Free of Charge

Click here to watch a video interview with Billie Jo Weyant

RIDGWAY – A victim service agency is one track to become the first in the country to offer all levels of the Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) method, free of charge.

 Citizens Against Physical, Sexual and Emotional Abuse, Inc. (CAPSEA) is a non-profit organization that offers life-saving services to victims, significant others and children of domestic violence, sexual violence, homelessness and victims of series crimes in Elk and Cameron

Executive Director of CAPSEA, Billie Jo Weyant, said the agency already provides four levels of the TIR method. Weyant said once certified in the final level, CAPSEA will be the first agency to provide all levels free of charge.

 “You can count on one hand how many people on this earth have not been traumatized by something,” Weyant said. “Every trauma links to another trauma, so when you start peeling those layers away, you’re really helping people.”

Weyant said TIR is a one-on-one method for removing the negative effects of past traumatic events and involves re-experiencing those traumas in a safe environment. Weyant said it’s a client led practice.

“TIR is totally driven by the victim or the person who wants to release their trauma. We are there to listen and simply acknowledge,” Weyant said.

Counselor Tiffany Palmer said the final level of TIR is life coaching. She said this method will allow CAPSEA to help people find a direction in life and achieve their goals.

“I’ve been doing and using a lot of different techniques in my years in this field, and TIR is by far one of my favorites,” Palmer said. “It is very steadfast, true and tried technique that I believe really does work.”

Palmer said to date, around 20 clients have gone through the TIR process.

Weyant said the last level of CAPSEA’s training is scheduled to be completed in August.

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What is Unblocking?

Michael P. Brechtel, MEd, JD, LMT
Traumatic Incident Reduction Trainer and Facilitator

Pretty much everyone has a drawer or a box where, over years or even decades, they’ve tossed technology cables, cords and adapters, thinking that they would be useful and needed. You’ve probably got one at home. If you’re like me, when you need something, you open the drawer and find it a hopeless morass of tangled, useless junk. Then you close it, go to the store and buy the cable you need. It may have been in the drawer, but it was just too daunting, depressing and confusing to go there.

In our lives, we often have people, places or things that have become tangled and confusing. We know there is something useful in the relationship, situation or circumstance, but it’s become a daunting, depressing, confusing place to go. Unblocking is an orderly process, where we commit the time to empty the drawer, separate and untangle the various cables, roll them up, sort through them, discard those that are definitely useless, and put to use those that are. Only we do this with the people, places or things that have become chaotic in that corner of our psyche where we toss such things…

 

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The Value of Facing a Traumatic Memory Head-On

Frank A. (“Sarge”) Gerbode, M.D.
Frank A. (“Sarge”) Gerbode, M.D. at 2018 Symposium in Ann Arbor

To ask someone to face a traumatic memory head-on, we need to establish a number of things first.  Is the person:

  • In a good condition physically, well fed and well rested?
  • Emotionally ready, willing and able to face the trauma?
  • Mentally able to focus and to stay with the work long enough to get a good result?
  • Feeling secure in a safe space to do this work, free from distractions*, free of judgment or interpretations from the practitioner?

Once we have someone who is well informed as to the nature of Traumatic Incident Reduction and willing or even eager to face a trauma that is holding them back, the amazing work of TIR can begin.  It is often less scary or  painful than we may have expected.  Consider this:  a traumatic memory is of an event that we did live through.  It did not kill us at the time, no matter how bad it was, and it will not kill us now.

Client and practitioner have the same aim: the resolution of the traumatic memory or sequence of memories…

*  Crisis TIR, done in field conditions with crisis responders, done by experienced, fully trained practitioners. may bend a few of these rules at times.

 [READ MORE] in this month’s issue of eNotes!

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The Value of Life Stress Reduction

What does Life Stress Reduction sound like to you? Less frustration? More fulfillment? More fun in life? It is all that. Life Stress Reduction is the activity of addressing immediate situations, relationships and conditions that interfere with our optimum quality of life by using Applied Metapsychology (AMP) techniques. The goals in mind in this work are always your goals, as this is person-centered work.

Life Stress Reduction starts with an interview with your facilitator. To find a TIR practitioner visit our site: https://www.tira.org/find-a-practitioner/. Together you explore the areas of life you most want to improve. Your facilitator will make a case plan for a Life Stress Reduction program tailored exactly to what you want to address.
What can we surmise would be included in your Life Stress Reduction program?

Read the rest of the story….

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New online discussion group for TIRA Members!

We have shuttered the old YahooGroups based TIRA-Members discussion group and invite all TIRA Members whose membership is current to join us online in the new Groups.Io hosted discussion groups!