Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

As Bessel Van Der Kolk (2015) writes about trauma, “The Body Keeps The Score”. Or… more precisely, research shows that trauma is stored in our limbic system, which is in the emotional part of our brain. 

In order to access this part of our brain, we want to use therapies that target the body and emotional part of our brain (where trauma is stored), instead of simply our language centers. 

ITATM is a somatically-based approach to treating trauma, and focuses on mind-body neuroscience. Created by Lori Gill, this model incorporates elements of multiple evidence based modalities including Somatic Experiencing, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy,  and  Attachment-Focused EMDR  in a structured, sequential manner to regulate body, mind and brain simultaneously to process traumatic memories in a safe, structured way.