Trauma Reprocessing Treatments

Warrior Renew is a structured group program for sexual trauma designed to address common factors such as trauma triggers, anger/resentment, self-blame, and impact on interpersonal functioning/attachment. The group method reduces isolation, strengthens community, and provides support for identity repair. Outcome research demonstrated decreased PTSD symptoms, depression, anxiety, and negative thinking with remarkably low dropout rates and improvements in self-esteem, secure attachment, optimism, and life satisfaction.

Why is Warrior Renew delivered in a group?

Although clients may want to avoid groups, fearing they will be too vulnerable or triggered, experience has shown that clients, even the most hesitant ones, seem to love the group experience. It amplifies their healing and reminds them that they are not alone. They feel supported, laugh, and bond. The #1 most quoted benefit of the group is the comradery they feel with other group members.

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Holographic Reprocessing is an individual therapy designed to be flexible and tailored to target unresolved root causes of trauma. Once identified, cognitive strategies are used to see self in context. With clarity, they engage in imagery reprocessing to deliver a healing message to their younger self. There are several types of patterns of holograms, not only interpersonal, but also surviving a near death or medical trauma, moral injury, and traumatic grief. Each has a distinct pattern and distinct imagery reprocessing script.

5 Core Techniques of Trauma Reprocessing

Identifying Core Violations / Root Issues
Clients explore the deeper injury beneath events—such as betrayal, injustice, powerlessness, abandonment, or identity wounds. This allows therapy to reach the true source of patterns driving anxiety, depression, PTSD, dissociation, and relational distress.

Observer Vantage Point
In Trauma Reprocessing clients consider themselves in the context of their lives by adopting a calm, regulated observer stance. This reduces overwhelm and supports clearer reflection, emotional regulation, and perspective-taking.

Mentalization Skills
Clients strengthen their ability to understand thoughts, feelings, intentions, and behaviors in themselves and others (e.g. what do you think they were thinking?). Mentalization reduces reactivity, improves empathy and understanding, and helps integrate complex trauma experiences.

Metaphor, Context, & Holistic Reappraisals
Metaphors and contextual reframing expand clients’ understanding of their reactions, reducing self-blame and increasing compassion and cognitive flexibility. This positions them to build new, adaptive narratives about themselves and their past.

Imagery Reprocessing
Using guided, imagery-based experiential work, clients deliver a healing message to their traumatized self—offering protection, compassion, justice, or support that was not available at the time of trauma.

This is not exposure and does not require clients to relive traumatic events. Instead, it fosters completion, emotional healing, and identity repair.

Based on Sy Epstein’s (2014) cognitive-experiential theory, trauma reprocessing engages both the cognitive/rational system and the experiential/emotional systems for change.

Experiential Holograms

Traumatic experiences can imprint on an individual’s subconscious, creating a template, or “hologram” that influences one’s perceptions, interpretations, and responses to the world. Like wearing virtual reality goggles, the hologram feels real, and becomes the basis for self-validating outcomes… rendering people in a self-perpetuating cycle. However, with trauma reprocessing strategies, a trauma-template/ hologram can be changed.

Brief overview of the treatment

STEP 1: Identify the underling pattern by following emotions and physical cues. Emotional memories link together like a string of holiday lights—plugging in the string (emotion), lights up the memories. Through the principle of association, we can map a persistent pattern of experiences and their underlying beliefs and behaviors.

STEP 2: Cognitive awareness is enhanced by reviewing the past, considering context, using mentalization skills (what was the agenda of other’s involved), and gaining perspective using the objective observer vantage point and metaphors.

STEP 3: The experiential system is engaged through imagery reprocessing where one’s current-age self, delivers a healing message to their younger traumatized-self.

Close-up of glowing string lights against a dark background, creating a warm ambiance.

Memories of similar emotions string together…By using associations, clients identify the memory that is at the root of the string (e.g., the core violation). They identify what happened and how they felt. They consider context and perspective by reviewing events from the observer vantage point. Equipped with understanding, they are asked, “if you, as your current age self, could meet your younger self… what would you say? what would you do? What does younger you need to heal?” The experiential hologram that once felt so real, releases, like popping a soap bubble.

For more information or questions about the treatments, feel free to contact the institute.

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