FAQ

What is TCTSY?

TCTSY is an evidenced based approach to supporting people who experience complex trauma or chronic PTSD. It is a relationship based approach that offers the opportunity to safely explore sensations in the body at your own pace. This therapeutic somatic based practice borrows from the Hatha yoga tradition and is founded in the theoretical approaches of neuroscience, trauma theory and attachment theory. The TCTSY program earned inclusion in the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) database published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in the United States.

What Benefits does the research highlight?

Everyone’s experience and response to trauma is unique. As such the list below is a summary of what the research suggests a TCTSY practice can be helpful for:

  • Time and space to begin to reconnect with your body in a safe environment.

  • Time and space to acknowledge and explore your relationship with your body.

  • Increase your interoceptive awareness – that is your awareness of your internal, felt experience or the ability to notice what is happening in your body.

  • Space to cultivate a sense of agency and empowerment

  • Feeling empowered to make choices about your body

  • Gain greater somatic awareness

  • Explore window of tolerance in relation to bodily sensations in a safe space.

TCTSY has been found particularly helpful for groups who identify as:

  • Being diagnosed with complex trauma or chronic PTSD

  • Survivors of childhood abuse and/or neglect

  • Survivors of domestic abuse.

  • War veterans/ war survivors

  • Survivors of sexual exploitation and trafficking

  • Survivors of genocide

  • Survivors of community violence.

  • Experiencing dissociation.

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What happens first? 

You will be invited to meet with me for for an initial consultation lasting 20-30 mins, in person or on zoom/phone whichever your preference. I will email you any information needed for the consultation at this point.

During our initial consultation I will provide an overview of TCTSY and we can discuss your needs and expectations. It will also be a time where you can ask any questions about the practice or me in relation to the practice or raise any concerns you might have. 

What happens during a session?

Everything offered during a session is by invitation. You are invited to choose what shapes you do, and what sensation if any you want to experience. 

My role is to create a space and facilitate a session whereby you feel safe enough to begin to explore or consider exploring your relationship with your body and the sensations that you might experience.

Some of what you might expect from a session is outlined below.

Invitation – Every stage of the practice will be an invitation. You choose whether you wish to accept or decline the invitation.

Choice – The choice is always yours. My role is to facilitate a space whereby you feel safe to make choices for yourself that feel comfortable in your body.

No assists – TCTSY is a hands-off practice, no physical assists are offered during the practice.

Consistency and Predictability – I will always offer a consistent and predicable practice that we have co-created.

After care?

TCTSY is not talk therapy. 

A list of local and national support services will be provided before sessions begin.