THE OBJECTIVE: Beyond its function of resolving trauma and immature coping patterns through use of the Inner Counselor Process, the Inner Counselor System with its Integration Chart provides an approach to the practical question, "Where am I going in my life?- why? - and how will I get there?"

THE APPROACH: Our personalities are formed by choices we make toward the fulfillment of basic needs. Responses of fear, anger, grief, and sadness act as a protective shield for the personality when basic needs are unfulfilled and options are limited. Many of these patterns are established in early childhood. However, disappointment and trauma may occur at any age. Until directly addressed, these patterns, originally set in place to protect us, continue to control our thoughts and responses. PTSD may be a severe reaction to a specific traumatic event but it very often is a result of cummulative experiences. Reactive patterns are obstacles on our path towards well-being. As such, they impair health, curtail creativity, and adversely affect our relationships.  

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: The Integration Chart of basic needs and intrinsic qualities sets forth the conceptual foundation. Based, in part, on the psychological concepts of pioneers such as Abraham Maslow and Carl Jung, the chart outlines the coping patterns that arise within us and demonstrates the directional choices that must be made in order to transform these patterns. A discussion of the Chart is offered on this website. The Inner Counselor Process (ICP™), directly correlates with the chart.

THE METHOD: The Inner Counselor Process (ICP™) evokes a light, hypnogogic state of mind that allows full awareness while enhancing imagery and felt-sense. An ICP™ facilitator provides supportive presence and the structure of the 15-Steps so that information and self-guidance may readily arise and be used by the participant. Integrative connections are made between three levels of mind; the conscious, the sub-conscious, and the super-conscious. Feelings carry the participant to an incident of origin; key emotions and their felt-sense are experienced and located in specific areas of the body; and the intrinsic needs that arise are identified. Dysfunctional emotional response patterns and/or encapsulated trauma enter conscious awareness and are symbolically transformed into functional patterns that fulfill intrinsic needs and are then fully integrated within body/mind memory. Integrating these 'split-off' areas of the subconscious enhances emotional, mental, and physical health. The average time needed for completing a process is 30 minutes.