Reclaiming the Core Self through Fierce Love
Your clients aren't stuck because they haven't felt enough. They're stuck because the toxic meanings driving their suffering have never been healed. CSRT gives you a step-by-step method to do exactly that.
The Wall Every
Trauma Therapist Hits
You’ve done the deep experiential relational work. You’ve sat with your clients in their pain and suffering, offered attunement, facilitated powerful corrective emotional experiences. And yet your clients still remain stuck in fundamental ways.
It's not for lack of empathy. It's not that your clients don't feel safe with you, or that the emotional processing hasn't been corrective. It’s because the client’s deepest intrapsychic wounds haven’t yet been directly targeted and healed.
CSRT was built to reach what other psychotherapy models don’t: the trauma-induced meanings — i.e. the toxic self-beliefs and survival strategies that result from trauma— that hold suffering in place, keeping our clients stuck in place, unable to live in their authentic selves.
What Makes CSRT Different from other Models?
CSRT targets the deepest source of suffering: the trauma-induced meanings that underlie and perpetuate psychic pain. These are the toxic self-beliefs, self-blame, shame and terror-fueled survival strategies that keep clients from fully living.
CSRT puts the Core Self of the client at the center of treatment from the very first session. In CSRT, the Core Self is not just the destination of healing — it’s the primary resource for healing, accessed right from the get-go. CSRT empowers clients to become their own agent of healing by continually championing them to access their Core Self strength.
CSRT works with defenses, not around them. Where other models view defenses as obstacles to be bypassed, in CSRT defenses are at the heart of the healing work. CSRT has an extensive array of interventions for working with defenses, no matter how entrenched.
CSRT gives you a clinical roadmap, not just a theory. The Triangle of Healing, nine corrective emotional experiences, and a structured Parts Work Process mean you always know where you are, what to target, and what to do next.
CSRT integrates what you already know. If you come from AEDP, IFS, Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, or any experiential tradition, you'll recognize the roots. What CSRT adds is a precise system for targeting the traumatic meanings that hold suffering in place --- and a relational stance fierce enough to reach them.
The Fierce Love Relational Stance
CSRT is not neutral. It is driven by the Fierce Love relational stance --- a way of being with the client that is deeply empathic and attuned, yet unapologetically bold and directive on behalf of the client’s Core Self.
We reclaim the word love as a central force in healing. We are born with the birthright of love. Trauma and its consequent suffering are, at their root, a failure of love --- its absence or its distortion. CSRT names this directly and works to restore it.
And we are fierce because our clients need us to be. They come to us in deep intrapsychic pain, imprisoned by shame, self-blame, and survival rules they no longer need. As therapists, we are trained to err on the side of caution --- to remain neutral, to wait, to follow the client's pace. But too often, that caution becomes collusion with the very defenses that keep our clients suffering.
Every day spent living in the Wounded Self is a precious day lost. Our clients need us to be bold on their behalf --- to champion their Core Self even when they cannot, to speak directly to their shame, and to hold the truth of who they are until they can know it for themselves.
What Clinicians Are Saying about CSRT:
“In thirty some years of practice as a Clinical Social Worker, I find CSRT to be a dynamic and gorgeous experience. Many of my clients love their CSRT sessions, especially when I am fully present to my own Core Self with them.”
“I am using CSRT all the time in my practice and I am getting excellent results from it. It is essentially life changing.”
“Clients are telling me more than ever that they feel hope. I have never received this feedback before. I know this is due to CSRT and the fierceness in Fierce Love.”
“The courses have been transformational in my work with clients and in my own development as a psychologist. I am so grateful for all the work that you both have put in to making each month so engaging and full of new material. The completeness of the model is impressive.”
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