TRTP: The Richards Trauma Process

TRTP is a unique structured process that works with the neurobiology of trauma to rewire your body and brain after experiences of trauma. The body’s response to trauma is a sophisticated and nuanced way of providing protection and survival. Those responses often remain long after the danger or trauma has passed. This can be experienced as flashbacks, reliving sensory or somatic feelings or versions of freeze, flight, fight. TRTP works to align the body and brain to feeling and knowing that the danger is over and you are safe now. It enables people to embody agency and empowerment, creating a new somatic experience of safety. TRTP is a series of sessions that move along a process.

As with other techniques Belinda uses, TRTP does not use details or descriptions of trauma experiences as part of the process. You do not need to talk in detail about what has happened, or have a clear memory or story/narrative around your experience. This can be common for people who have experienced trauma, as traumatic memory is laid down, (and therefore recalled) differently in the brain.

TRTP is a series of sessions that progress along a process. TRTP provides you with strategies and tools able to be used long after sessions are over with Belinda. This is part of her philosophy of supporting people with techniques and modalities they can take with them and use after the time spent working together.