IDENTITY-ORIENTED PSYCHOTRAUMA THERAPY

Identity-oriented Psychotrauma Therapy (IoPT) is the theory and method developed by Franz Ruppert (Munich) over the past thirty years. It is a sound, safe and profoundly effective way of understanding, processing and re-integrating our early trauma, from conception onwards – focusing primarily on our in utero time, birth and early childhood. Based on the understanding that, in order to ensure our physical survival, our psyche splits off the experiences that would otherwise be utterly overwhelming for us, IoPT provides a secure framework to slowly build up our sense of ‘healthy self’, begin to recognize our ‘survival strategies’ and step-by-step to gradually make contact with – and feel - our frozen, unexpressed emotions and physiological experiences from the earliest time in our lives. Working experientially with your chosen ‘intention’ – either one-to-one or in a group setting - IoPT enables a gentle re-integration of body and mind. As we come closer to the truth of who we really are, rather than who we have had to be, previously entrenched physical ‘illnesses’ and ‘mental health issues’no longer have such control over us and we become increasingly free to live the life we want for ourselves.

OUR PRACTITIONERS

Lucy Jameson

Lucy was born in London in 1976.

She has been working with IoPT for her own personal development since 2012, and from 2015-2018 she attended Vivian Broughton’s education course at The Centre for Healthy Autonomy in London, to train as a practitioner. She was an apprentice (senior student) on that course for two years. In October 2016 she co-presented a workshop, 'Motherhood and Identity Development', at the 3rd IoPT International Conference in Munich, and then subsequently led her own workshop on the topic ‘Food Refusal & Trauma’ at the next conference in 2018.

Lucy offers one-to-one sessions online and in person, as well as regular group topic-based workshops. She has a particular interest in working with parents and carers, introducing the concept of early trauma into the family home, to provide a safer, more loving environment for both adults and children.

She lives in West Hoathly with her partner and their two children and is fully insured.